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Montevideo, December 11th 2025 - 12:24 UTC

Tag: United Kingdom

  • Friday, March 28th 2014 - 06:45 UTC

    London becomes hub for Chinese currency dealings and clearing

    Osborne, all efforts to make sure UK is the leading western center for trading in Yuans

    The Bank of England has agreed a deal with the People's Bank of China to make London a hub for Chinese currency dealing. The memorandum of understanding, to be signed next Monday, sets out settlement and clearing arrangements for the Renminbi, or Yuan, in London.

  • Thursday, March 27th 2014 - 07:55 UTC

    Malvinas affairs official meets with Pope Francis and talks about Falklands' dialogue

    Pope Francis and Filmus at the Vatican

    Pope Francis showed an interest on the Falklands/Malvinas question negotiations during a meeting on Wednesday at the Vatican with Daniel Filmus chairman of Issues relative to the Malvinas Islands secretariat, according to Argentine sources which gave the event a great coverage. The meeting was in the framework of Wednesdays open audience at St Peter's square, when an estimated 50.000 people attend the ceremony.

  • Wednesday, March 26th 2014 - 22:31 UTC

    Falklands' TriStars have flown their last operational mission with the RAF

    Squadron personnel with a 'Timmy' TriStar aircraft at RAF Brize Norton

    The Lockheed TriStar, closely linked to the recent history of the Falkland Islands has flown its last operational mission with the Royal Air Force. On 24 March, two TriStars of 216 Squadron based at Royal Air Force Brize Norton flew an air-to-air refueling mission over the North Sea before one of them conducted fly-pasts at airfields associated with its history.

  • Wednesday, March 26th 2014 - 06:02 UTC

    Major scandal in UK: program reveals fetal remains used to heat hospitals

    Health Minister Dan Poulter has described the practice as “totally unacceptable.”

    Thousands of babies who had died from abortion and miscarriage were being used to heat hospitals in Britain. An investigation has found that baby corpses go to the incinerator as clinical waste, aside from using the remains as fuel to keep British hospitals warm.

  • Wednesday, March 26th 2014 - 05:41 UTC

    UK universities delegates visit Chile for closer education and scientific research links

    Professor Colin Grant from the University of Bath, and Ambassador Fiona Clouder

    High level delegates from twelve British universities visited Chile the week of 17 March to deepen their partnerships with the country, becoming the first large international education delegation to visit under the new Chilean government of President Michelle Bachelet.

  • Saturday, March 22nd 2014 - 08:01 UTC

    The Falklands/Malvinas: Brazil’s next regional headache?

    When Foreign Secretary William Hague recently visited Brazil, the Falklands/Malvinas issue was not on the agenda, according to Stuenkel

    By Oliver Stuenkel (*) - Brazil, foreign policy observers often point out, is blessed. Contrary to many other emerging powers such as China or India, it is located in a region that rarely experiences interstate tension or war. Not only can Brazil live on a relatively small defense budget, while India is the world's largest arms importer. Brazil can also dedicate considerable time and energy towards extending its global diplomatic reach without constantly being forced to deal with trouble in its neighborhood.

  • Thursday, March 20th 2014 - 07:02 UTC

    Argentina blasts double-standard in addressing Crimea and Malvinas

    ”One cannot defend territorial integrity in Crimea and not in (the case of) Malvinas”

    The Ukraine question must be settled through political negotiations and peace, President Cristina Fernández said at a press conference in Paris where she arrived this week to meet with her French counterpart Francois Hollande.

  • Thursday, March 20th 2014 - 03:28 UTC

    Malvinas: Argentina understands UK's insistence on tripartite talks, “but UN resolutions prevent it”

    Daniel Filmus is convinced Argentina will eventually recover the Falklands

    The Telegraph published a long interview with Daniel Filmus recently appointed to head the Argentine government newly created Malvinas Islands Related Issues Secretariat in which he repeats many of the arguments of the Cristina Fernandez administration campaign referred to the Falklands sovereignty claim, using such words as 'colonialism' and 'militarization', and attacking UK's refusal to sit and dialogue as indicated by UN resolutions.

  • Wednesday, March 19th 2014 - 07:21 UTC

    With Malvinas in mind, Argentine diplomat calls for recreating links with UK

    García Moritán finds praise, and a strong message, in the naming of Colin Roberts as Falklands next governor

    The recent visit to Chile and particularly Uruguay of Foreign Office minister for Latin-American Hugo Swire has triggered a barrage of comments and debate in Argentina about the Falklands/Malvinas, particularly aggressive towards the FCO official, but not surprising.

  • Tuesday, March 18th 2014 - 06:59 UTC

    Malvinas/Crimea: Cristina Fernandez blasts UK on “double standard”

    The Argentine president made the comments in Italy

    Argentine President Cristina Fernández has criticized what she dubbed a “double standard” from the United Kingdom, due to the nation condemning the Crimean referendum on union with Russia while supporting the rights of Falklands/Malvinas residents to hold a vote on their future.