Tag: United Kingdom

• Saturday, June 22nd 2013 - 05:55 UTC

  FCO Director for Europe next British ambassador to Spain

  

  The British Government has appointed a new ambassador to Spain. Simon Manley will succeed Giles Paxman as the UK’s ambassador in Madrid and non-resident ambassador to Andorra. He takes up the post in October.

• Friday, June 21st 2013 - 06:34 UTC

  Malvinas referendum has left dispute resolution “hostage in London”, claims Timerman

  

  Foreign minister Hector Timerman once again anticipated Argentina’s willingness to overcome the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands sovereignty conflict through dialogue, but unfortunately a resolution of the dispute was ‘hostage in London’ and of UK’s ‘imperial disdain’.

• Thursday, June 20th 2013 - 16:40 UTC

  C24 ‘no longer relevant’ and is ‘insulting’ to describe BOT/London relations as colonial

  

  The Decolonization Committee is no longer relevant and to describe the relation of British Overseas Territories with the UK as colonial is insulting both for the BOT and London, said a Foreign Office spokeswoman following Thursday session when the Falklands/Malvinas case was debated at the UN C24.

• Wednesday, June 19th 2013 - 02:56 UTC

  Malvinas C24 Argentina petitioners: Maria Angelia Vernet and Alejandro Betts

  

  Maria Angelica Vernet and Falklands’ born Alejandro Betts will be Argentina’s petitioners at Thursday’s June 20 United Nations Decolonization Committee session in New York when the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty dispute will be addressed.

• Tuesday, June 18th 2013 - 07:33 UTC

  Falklands’ C24 debate: Timerman heads Argentine delegation and includes two governors

  

  The governors, from Tierra del Fuego and Santa Fe will be part of the delegation when the Argentine presentation before the UN Decolonisation Committee on the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute, next Thursday June 20 in New York.

• Monday, June 17th 2013 - 19:25 UTC

  Assange prepared to remain in Ecuadorean embassy in London another five years

  

  Ecuador will continue to grant WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asylum at its London embassy, the foreign minister said on Monday after failing to reach a solution to the case with Britain.

• Monday, June 17th 2013 - 16:03 UTC

  Brazil and UK sign long term cooperation program in biotechnology research

  

  The British Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) signed a Letter of Understanding to implement a new Cooperation Program to extend the long-term collaboration between the parties.

• Monday, June 17th 2013 - 06:51 UTC

  Falklands’ conflict depicted in opera ‘Allies’ based on Pinochet-Thatcher relationship

  

  The relationship between former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and ex-Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet has been turned into an opera which opened in Paris for a five-night run. “Allies” revolves around a televised 1999 meeting of the two late leaders when Pinochet was being held under house arrest in Britain.

• Saturday, June 15th 2013 - 13:56 UTC

  Falklands: “British sovereignty over the Islands as such, is not accepted by the European Parliament”

  

  “British sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands as such is not accepted by the European Parliament”, according to a visiting delegation of EU lawmakers who met with their Argentine peers in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, June 14th 2013 - 00:16 UTC

  Falklands have never been part of Argentina and Islanders overwhelmingly voted to remain British

  

  The following piece was written by Andrew Ayre, British High Commissioner in Georgetown, Guyana and published in StabroekNews from Guyana.