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Montevideo, December 11th 2025 - 12:26 UTC

Tag: United Kingdom

  • Saturday, March 15th 2014 - 04:12 UTC

    “Crimea means more to Russia than the Falklands to Britain”

    Lavrov and Kerry had 'very direct and very frank talks' but differences persist

    Crimea means more to Russia than the Falklands mean to Britain, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday after holding last-ditch talks on the region with his U.S. counterpart John Kerry.

  • Friday, March 14th 2014 - 09:18 UTC

    Falkland Islanders right to self determination reaffirmed by Minister Swire

    Minister Swire impressed by the development and achievements of the Falklands

    Foreign Office minister for Latin America Hugo Swire MP, who recently visited the Falklands, sent a letter to Falkland Islanders thanking the warm reception and congratulating them on their strong sense of identity and community. The letter was published in this Friday's edition of the Penguin News.

  • Friday, March 14th 2014 - 08:36 UTC

    Timerman happy with the way he is running Malvinas policy

    The statement from the Argentine official was in reply to UK minister Swire

    Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman said he must be doing the right things regarding the Falklands/Malvinas issue because the Foreign Office prefers to talk to members of the opposition.

  • Thursday, March 13th 2014 - 22:51 UTC

    UK prefers to discuss Malvinas with Massa or Macri says Swire, according to Telam

    Foreign Secretary minister Hugo Swire was interviewed by Telam in Montevideo

    British Minister of State for the Foreign Office Hugo Swire has stated London would rather sit at the negotiating table with Argentine opposition presidential hopefuls Sergio Massa or Mauricio Macri to discuss Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty.

  • Thursday, March 13th 2014 - 08:08 UTC

    UK reiterates support for Gibraltar's people right to determine their own future

    Baroness Warsi revealed to revealed to Lords that the Spanish ambassador was summoned three times

    A senior Foreign Office minister summed up Britain’s position on Gibraltar firmly and concisely this week in Parliament. “At the heart of this issue is the right of the people of Gibraltar to determine their own future,” said Baroness Warsi, Senior Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

  • Tuesday, March 11th 2014 - 06:28 UTC

    Falklands weekly says Argentina's call for dialogue and respect is 'farcical'

    Lisa Watson, sixty generation Falkland Islander replies to Ambassador Castro

    The Falkland Islands latest Penguin News editorial picks on the Chagos Islanders controversy surfaced by Ambassador Alicia Castro and laments that Argentina insists that Falkland Islanders 'are a non people entitled to nothing', but on the other hand had it not been “for the Argentine act of aggression that shone a spotlight on our existence as a population, we too might have ended up a people without a place”.

  • Wednesday, March 5th 2014 - 05:11 UTC

    Malvinas negotiations will take place 'sooner than later' forecasts Cristina Fernandez

    The Argentine president almost forgot to mention the Falklands during her speech

    “Sooner than later” Argentina will be able to discuss with the UK “the Malvinas Islands sovereignty issue” as indicated by the UN resolutions, said Argentine president Cristina Fernandez during her speech to the General Assembly opening the 132th legislative period last Saturday, March first.

  • Tuesday, March 4th 2014 - 23:53 UTC

    Hague raises UK's concern about illegal Spanish incursions in Gibraltar waters

    MP Rosindell brought up the issue in a parliamentary question in Commons

    UK Foreign Secretary, William Hague, personally raised Britain’s concerns about persistent “illegal” Spanish incursions into British Gibraltar territorial waters, it was revealed. Mr. Hague spoke to Gonzalo de Benito, the Secretary of State at the Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, on February 20 on the margins of an emergency meeting of the EU’s Foreign Affairs Council to discuss the situation in Ukraine.

  • Tuesday, March 4th 2014 - 23:22 UTC

    Britain's new 'governor of the Falkland islands' is a provocation

    Governor Roberts and Ambassador Castro have met at the Foreign Office but apparently not did not have a good chat

    By Alicia Castro, Argentine ambassador in London - Ms Castro writes a column in The Guardian to complain about the appointment of Colin Roberts as the next Falkland Islands governor and unearths some Wikileaks cables referred to the incoming governor's attitude regarding the Chagos islanders forced eviction, and plans to ensure they will never be returned by declaring the vast area a 'marine park' allegedly questioned by US diplomacy.

  • Thursday, February 27th 2014 - 21:19 UTC

    British cruisers name favorite cruise ships in 2014

    Royal Caribbean rode the waves in the awards for the Large Ship class, with Serenade of the Seas

    Cruise Critic has released its 2014 Cruise Critic U.K. Cruisers' Choice Awards, the cruise awards based entirely on reviews submitted by cruisers. Royal Caribbean rode the waves in the awards for the Large Ship class, with Serenade of the Seas, the third ship in the Radiance-class fleet, named Best Overall ship, Best Value-for-Money and Best Dining. Royal Caribbean's Adventure of the Seas took Best for Embarkation.