Tag: South Atlantic Council

• Monday, October 11th 2021 - 09:29 UTC

  Fragments of Argentine aircraft downed in Falklands donated to museum

  

  British soldier David Richardson, who found the fragments of a downed Argentine Air Force Dagger downed by a British Harrier during the 1982 Falklands War, has donated the items to be exhibited at a museum in the province of Córdoba, Argentine ambassador to the United Kingdom, Javier Figueroa announced.

• Tuesday, July 30th 2013 - 02:40 UTC

  Falklands at C24: ‘Alejandro Betts misrepresents’, says Professor Willets

  

  Mr. Alejandro Betts spoke on 20 June this year at the UN Special Committee on Decolonisation, as a petitioner on the “Falklands (Malvinas) Question.” It has been brought to my attention that his speech included a highly distorted account of my visit to the Islands to observe the referendum on behalf of the South Atlantic Council.

• Tuesday, July 16th 2013 - 05:23 UTC

  Falklands united as a political community thus a ‘micro-nation’ says SAC

  

  The, “orthodox,” view that the Falkland Islands referendum was little more than British voters choosing to remain British, as pedalled by the Argentine government, is not enough to explain the result of the Falkland Islands referendum argues Professor Peter Willetts in his ‘A Report on the Referendum on the Political Status of the Falkland Islands’.

• Monday, March 11th 2013 - 08:29 UTC

  “Free association”, an option for the current Falklands’ dispute at UN

  

  There is no doubt that the Falkland Islanders have the right to self-determination, a visiting professor of politics told a public meeting held in the capital Stanley at the Chamber of Commerce last Friday.

• Wednesday, June 13th 2012 - 13:41 UTC

  Seeking a new understanding of sovereignty

  

  The London-based South Atlantic Council today made a call “for a new understanding of sovereignty” thirty years after the cease-fire that ended hostilities between Britain and Argentina.