Tag: Roger Edwards

• Friday, June 15th 2012 - 06:23 UTC

  Argentina refuses to receive invitation to dialogue from the Falklands’ government

  

  A letter from the Falkland Islands government inviting the Argentine government to enter into a dialogue and which was to be delivered directly to President Cristina Fernandez’ delegation during the Decolonization Committee debate was frustrated by the passivity of the C24 chair and by Foreign Minister Hector Timerman.

• Friday, June 15th 2012 - 02:55 UTC

  Do human beings not have human rights if they reside on a piece of land that Argentina wants?

  

  The first petitioner for the Falkland Islands MLA Roger Edwards before the UN Decolonization Committee said that Argentina claims to fight against colonialism yet wishes to annex the Islands and “subject our people to alien subjugation and domination”, which is the very definition of colonialism.

• Thursday, June 7th 2012 - 06:29 UTC

  Argentine president attendance at C24 to discuss Falklands’ case, “misfortunate” and “most unusual”

  

  The UK regretted as ‘misfortunate” and “strange” the announced attendance of Argentine president Cristina Fernandez next week to the UN Decolonisation Committee to claim sovereignty over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands.

• Saturday, June 2nd 2012 - 04:50 UTC

  Falklands’ new generation will attend the C24 meeting in New York

  

  Two young Islanders will accompany Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly Members to a special session of the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonisation (C24) this month in New York.

• Thursday, May 31st 2012 - 00:42 UTC

  Falklands’ lawmaker to address decolonization regional seminar in Ecuador

  

  Falkland Islands Member of the elected Legislative Assembly Roger Edwards is scheduled to address the UN Special Committee on Decolonization regional seminar which opened Wednesday May 30 in Quito, capital of Ecuador.

• Tuesday, March 13th 2012 - 22:28 UTC

  Dressed as rugby players, Argentine lobbyists plan third visit, next April

  

  Despite the Falklands Legislative Assembly and many Islanders voicing their displeasure at the previous activities of an Argentine group of rugby players in the Falklands, Rugby Sin Fronteras (Rugby without Frontiers) are planning a third visit on April 13, this year.

• Wednesday, March 7th 2012 - 03:18 UTC

  Keith Padgett, first Falklands’ government CE recruited in the Islands

  

  Keith Padgett, former Finance Secretary and acting Chief Executive of the Falkland Islands government has been confirmed in the post by the local government acting in agreement with the Islands Governor.

• Tuesday, March 6th 2012 - 17:11 UTC

  Will no one listen to us Falkland Islanders?

  

  By Roger Edwards, Falklands MLA - Published in The Guardian
  The Falkland Islands have been much in the news of late, and we are extremely grateful for the strong support we have and are receiving from the people and the government of the UK.

• Friday, March 2nd 2012 - 21:33 UTC

  Any negotiations “must start from a position of trust” Falklands tells Argentina

  

  Negotiations must start from a position of trust and “it is hard to trust a Government who so easily break their word, and who deny our right to exist as a people”, said Falklands lawmaker Roger Edwards in response to the announcement by Argentine President Cristina Fernandez on direct air-links to the Falklands.

• Wednesday, February 8th 2012 - 01:11 UTC

  Falklands’ lawmakers lobby Caribbean nations in support of self-determination

  

  Members of the Falklands Islands Legislative Assembly, Sharon Halford and Roger Edwards, have visited Grenada in the Caribbean to discuss the Falkland Islands right to self-determination with government ministers and senior officials.