Tag: United Kingdom

• Friday, May 4th 2012 - 16:52 UTC

  Falklands’ spot: UK regrets Argentina’s attempts to exploit and politicise Olympic Games

  

  The British Foreign Office criticized a controversial spot showing an Argentine athlete training for the London Olympic Games in Port Stanley, in the Falklands as an attempt to exploit and politicise the Games.

• Thursday, May 3rd 2012 - 07:44 UTC

  HMS Dauntless en route to Falklands participates in 11 nations exercise

  

  HMS Dauntless impressed the members of other navies during a multinational exercise in the Atlantic last week to practise improving security at sea. Exercise Saharan Express, which took place off the coast of Senegal, saw military personnel from 11 nations, including France, Gambia, Senegal and Morocco, training to deal with people-trafficking, piracy, drug-smuggling and illegal fishing.

• Thursday, May 3rd 2012 - 07:24 UTC

  CFK supports Ambassador Castro during the opening of a ‘Malvinas patio’ in government house

  

  President Cristina Fernández defended Argentine Ambassador to the UK Alicia Castro, who tackled British Foreign Minister William Hague over Falklands/Malvinas Islands dialogue and stressed the fact that “the right to talk cannot be invalidated.”

• Wednesday, May 2nd 2012 - 15:06 UTC

  Peru could find itself snared in the Falklands/Malvinas dispute

  

  By W. Alex Sanchez, Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs - Thirty years after a bloody war between the United Kingdom and Argentina, the longstanding territorial conflict over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands continues to simmer.

• Wednesday, May 2nd 2012 - 05:50 UTC

  Peace Nobel laureates deliver letter to PM Cameron office calling for Falklands’ dispute dialogue

  

  Argentine Peace Nobel prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel delivered in London a letter of seven Peace Nobel winners to Prime Minister David Cameron urging UK along with Argentina to reach a peaceful solution over the sovereignty of the disputed Falklands/Malvinas Islands.

• Wednesday, May 2nd 2012 - 05:37 UTC

  Argentina promises more public harassment on Falklands: “you wait and see”

  

  Argentine ambassador in London Alicia Castro who on Monday surprised and embarrassed (‘ambushed’, according to the UK media) Foreign Secretary William Hague asking him at a public meeting on talks on the disputed Falkland Islands future, has promised more of the same stuff.

• Friday, April 27th 2012 - 09:33 UTC

  Argentine Securities Commission puts more pressure on Falklands’ oil industry

  

  Argentina’s National Securities Commission, CNV, announced on Thursday that it will inform UK regulatory authorities on the legal actions to be undertaken by the Argentine state against oil companies “illegally operating in the Malvinas Islands”.

• Tuesday, April 24th 2012 - 21:25 UTC

  Strong sterling and UK prices have vacation Britons fleeing to the continent

  

  Soaring sterling rates are giving Britons and Gibraltarians as much as 14% more cash for their summer 2012 trips to Euro Europe compared with last year, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Tuesday, April 24th 2012 - 19:19 UTC

  Argentina formalizes proposal for air link with Falklands and resumption of fisheries’ cooperation

  

  Argentina made a formal proposal to the UK for the establishment of direct flights from Argentina to the Falklands and to resume cooperation in the conservation of fishery resources in the South Atlantic, indicates a release posted on Tuesday in the Argentine Foreign Ministry site.

• Tuesday, April 24th 2012 - 01:45 UTC

  London property boom: Asians bought 51% of new luxury homes

  

  Investors from China and Southeast Asia bought one in every two new homes in central London last year as the number of wealthy individuals in the region swells, Jones Lang LaSalle Inc., said.