Tag: United Kingdom

• Wednesday, May 23rd 2018 - 06:55 UTC

  Johnson and Faurie agree to advance relations, despite the Falklands dispute

  

  British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Tuesday that relations with Argentina will continue to grow despite the nations’ dispute over the Falkland Islands sovereignty. Argentina still claims the Islands that it calls the Malvinas. Britain says the Falklands are a self-governing British Overseas Territory under its protection, confirmed by a 2013 referendum.

• Wednesday, May 23rd 2018 - 06:16 UTC

  (Brexit) UK and Argentina on the same intelligent reinsertion to the global community

  

  Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson forecasted a “new, exciting phase” in Anglo-Argentine relations as he wrapped up his visit to Buenos Aires. Johnson visited Argentina to attend the G20 Foreign Ministers summit. His visit was the first by a British Foreign Secretary in over 20 years.

• Tuesday, May 22nd 2018 - 07:00 UTC

  Ex-London mayor resigns from Labour party following anti-Semitism controversy

  

  Ken Livingstone has said he is resigning from the Labour Party. The ex-London mayor has been suspended since 2016 in a row over allegations of anti-Semitism following comments he made about Hitler and Zionism.

• Monday, May 21st 2018 - 09:12 UTC

  Foreign Secretary honors Argentine fallen during the Falklands conflict in Buenos Aires

  

  British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on Sunday laid a wreath to honor Argentine soldiers fallen while fighting the British in the 1982 Falkland Islands conflict. Johnson, who is in Buenos Aires for a Group of 20 meeting, visited the Monument of the Fallen Soldiers on Sunday along with Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie.

• Monday, May 21st 2018 - 09:06 UTC

  Boris Johnson, first foreign secretary to visit Peru in fifty years

  

  Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson spent the first of his five-day visit to Latin America in Peru on Saturday 19 May. In the first visit of a British Foreign Secretary to Peru in over 50 years, Mr. Johnson joined Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra and other high level Peruvian officials on a visit to Iquitos, located in the Amazon.

• Monday, May 21st 2018 - 08:26 UTC

  UK and Spain discuss Brexit and Gibraltar in Madrid: “constructive meeting”

  

  Gibraltar was discussed in Madrid on Saturday during a wide-ranging meeting on Brexit between the UK’s Minister for the Cabinet Office, David Lidington, and Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Alfonso Dastis. Speaking after the meeting, Mr Lidington expressed confidence that a constructive agreement would be reached on Gibraltar’s post-Brexit relations with Spain and the wider EU.

• Monday, May 21st 2018 - 08:17 UTC

  Commons report: “Moscow's Gold: Russian Corruption in the UK”

  

  The UK has been accused of turning a “blind eye” to Russia's “dirty money”, putting national security at risk. The House of Commons foreign affairs committee said London was being used to hide the “corrupt assets” of President Vladimir Putin and his allies.

• Saturday, May 19th 2018 - 09:09 UTC

  Theresa May nominates new Tory peers; government has suffered a series of defeats in House of Lords

  

  Downing Street has nominated nine new Conservative peers, including a number of former ministers, to sit in the House of Lords. Among those put forward for a peerage are former communities secretary Sir Eric Pickles and former trade and industry secretary Peter Lilley.

• Saturday, May 19th 2018 - 06:26 UTC

  Boris Johnson will be the first Foreign Secretary to visit Argentina in 15 years

  

  Boris Johnson is to make the first visit by a British foreign secretary to Argentina for 25 years. Mr. Johnson will seek to take advantage of the improvement in relations with Buenos Aires since President Mauricio Macri came to power in 2015.President Macri has talked of lifting curbs on oil, fishing and shipping around the Falkland Islands as tensions eased.

• Friday, May 18th 2018 - 07:37 UTC

  Cross-party group of UK parliamentarians on two-day visit to Gibraltar

  

  A cross-party group of UK parliamentarians is in Gibraltar on a two-day working visit. The visit takes place against the backdrop of the negotiations for the United Kingdom and Gibraltar to leave the European Union, which means that it will centre on Brexit issues.