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Montevideo, November 25th 2024 - 12:31 UTC

Tag: United Kingdom

  • Saturday, March 9th 2013 - 05:35 UTC

    Falklands’ rights and sovereignty

    Sir Peter Westmacott is the British ambassador to the United States.

    By Sir Peter Westmacott (*) - Where in the world can you celebrate Margaret Thatcher Day with five kinds of wild penguins? Nowhere but in the Falkland Islands, a windswept archipelago in the South Atlantic that’s about the same area as Connecticut but has a population of only 3.100. This weekend, these small islands with a big personality face a momentous choice: a referendum to decide their political future.

  • Saturday, March 9th 2013 - 04:55 UTC

    Falklands’ referendum: Argentina admits impotence and claims UK acting with ‘ill-faith’

    Argentine Foreign minister Hector Timerman regrets UK irresponsible and ill-faith initiatives

    Argentina blasted the UK over the coming Falkland Islands referendum claiming it is acting with ‘ill faith’ trying to introduce elements of distortion by changing the definition of the dispute under international law, despite all the pronouncements of the world community.

  • Thursday, March 7th 2013 - 22:10 UTC

    UK defense budget cuts becomes a major debate even for the ruling coalition

    Defense Secretary Hammond fighting back the cuts, UK could be short of the 2% of GDP NATO commitment

    UK Defense budget cuts are rapidly becoming a controversial issue even among members of the current ruling coalition. An article from The Telegraph by Deputy Political Editor James Kirkup points out to reactions from the Commons Defense Committee to further pruning defense which would force Britain to break its promises to the NATO alliance and put the Special Relationship with the US at risk.

  • Wednesday, March 6th 2013 - 10:59 UTC

    As president for 14 years, “Chavez left a lasting impression on Venezuela and more widely”

    Chavez visited the UK several times and in 2001 met with the Queen and then PM Tony Blair

    The UK Foreign secretary has paid tribute to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who he said left a “lasting impression” on his country. Chavez, 58, died on Tuesday after being seriously ill with cancer, ending his 14-year rule.

  • Tuesday, March 5th 2013 - 16:52 UTC

    Libor rate-rigging: UK regulator failed to act on warnings of “low-balling”

    FSA was distracted by the financial crisis, which forced the UK government to bail out a series of banks, Chairman Turner said in a statement.

    The UK Financial Services Authority repeatedly failed to act on warnings that banks were trying to rig inter-bank lending rates (mainly Libor) at height of the financial crisis, according to an internal review published Tuesday by the regulator.

  • Tuesday, March 5th 2013 - 00:39 UTC

    The Falklanders will speak clearly

    The Globe and Mail (*) editorial published Sunday, March - As a country that with some justice prides itself as a global beacon for democracy, the United States should abandon its equivocation over the status of the Falkland Islands and agree to throw its considerable weight behind the winner of the referendum asking Islanders whether they wish to remain a UK overseas territory.

  • Tuesday, March 5th 2013 - 00:09 UTC

    Argentina dismisses referendum; warns Falklands’ oil industry “unfeasible” without regional ties

    Ambassador Alicia Castro describes the referendum as a publicity stunt

    The referendum on the fate of the Falkland Islands is a publicity stunt with no legal status, Argentina's ambassador to Britain said on Monday, warning that oil exploitation around the territory was impossible without better regional ties.

  • Monday, March 4th 2013 - 06:41 UTC

    Independence party strikes serious setback for PM Cameron in by-election

    Farage, leader of the UK Independence party and a member of the European parliament (Pic BBC)

    British Prime Minister David Cameron was under pressure after his Conservatives were beaten into third place in a key election last March first, by his scandal-hit coalition partners and a Euro-skeptic party.

  • Monday, March 4th 2013 - 06:32 UTC

    Falklands’ governor tells The Sun “Argentina keeps making stuff up”

    “It’s extraordinary: you have to admire the sort of chutzpah” they make up said Governor Haywood

    Falkland Islands Governor Nigel Haywood accused Argentina of “making stuff up” in its relentless verbal assault on the UK and the Islands. With a referendum on whether the Islanders want to remain British less than a week away, Haywood vowed to keep “pushing back” against the “extraordinary” sabre-rattling, UK’s sensationalist tabloid The Sun published.

  • Monday, March 4th 2013 - 05:43 UTC

    Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands: Another Falklands?

    Chinese patrol vessels challenging the Japanese

    By Gwynne Dyer - Chinese survey vessels go into the waters around the disputed islands and Japanese patrol ships tail them much too closely. Twice last month Chinese maritime surveillance aircraft flew into the airspace around the Japanese-controlled islands and Tokyo scrambled F-15 fighters to meet them. On the second occasion, China then sent fighters too. Can these people be serious?