Tag: sovereignty negotiations

• Tuesday, November 19th 2019 - 09:36 UTC

  Falklands/Sao Paulo air link: Argentina requests “most discretion” from Brazil

  

  Argentina has requested “most discretion” for the coming Wednesday air link and first flight between Sao Paulo and the Falkland Islands, suggesting no officials be present at the departure. The news was revealed by one of Brazil's main dailies and allegedly the request arrived through informal diplomatic channels from the Argentine foreign ministry.

• Thursday, October 17th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  Argentina has bent over to please the UK while gaining nothing in return

  

  By Facundo Rodriguez (*) - It's now been three years since the British and Argentine governments signed the Foradori-Duncan agreement and committed to taking “appropriate measures to remove all obstacles limiting the economic growth and sustainable development” of the Falkland/Malvinas Islands.

• Monday, December 28th 2015 - 07:00 UTC

  Malvinas 'a constitutional issue, not optional'; plans for a South Atlantic secretariat which includes Antarctica

  

  Argentina's foreign minister Susana Malcorra stated that the conflict with the United Kingdom over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty is “a constitutional issue, not optional”, and described the position of the former Cristina Fernandez administration on the matter as “too tough”, while pledging that the “conflict must and will be integrated into a wider perspective”.

• Thursday, October 3rd 2013 - 21:58 UTC

  UK tells Spain: ‘no sovereignty negotiations with which Gibraltar is not content’

  

  Britain has enshrined, in a written statement to the United Nations, its commitment that it will not enter into a process of sovereignty negotiations with which Gibraltar is not content. And it has also reaffirmed its sovereignty over Gibraltar and its territorial waters, according to the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Thursday, February 2nd 2012 - 21:41 UTC

  UK tells Spain: sovereignty negotiations only if Gibraltar so wishes

  

  Britain would only enter into sovereignty negotiations with Spain if Gibraltar was happy for it to do so, Europe Minister David Lidington told the House of Commons this week