Tag: United Kingdom

• Monday, October 22nd 2012 - 03:16 UTC

  UK launches environmental and climate fund for Overseas Territories

  

  The UK has launched a new Overseas Territories Environment and Climate Fund, which consolidates funds from the Foreign Office, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Department for International Development, dedicated to environmental and conservation projects in those territories.

• Sunday, October 21st 2012 - 06:19 UTC

  Massive protest in central London against public spending cuts and higher taxes

  

  Thousands of British protesters marched through central London on Saturday against public spending cuts and tax rises enacted by a government fighting accusations it is run by an upper-class elite that ignores the plight of recession-hit voters.

• Friday, October 19th 2012 - 17:29 UTC

  UK sees Security Council with “no appetite” to address Falklands/Malvinas issue

  

  The United Kingdom said it did not see ‘any appetite’ from the UN Security Council members to address the Falklands/Malvinas issue, following the election of Argentina as one of the five new non permanent members to the council on Thursday.

• Thursday, October 18th 2012 - 07:15 UTC

  Argentina takes Falklands sovereignty claim complaint to the Security Council

  

  The Argentine Foreign ministry said in an official release on Wednesday that the UN Security Council had received, and incorporated to its agenda, a formal complaint on the UK latest military exercises in the Falkland Islands.

• Wednesday, October 17th 2012 - 20:48 UTC

  Mexican president-elect and PM Cameron pledge to double bilateral trade by 2015

  

  Mexican President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto called in London this week for expanded “cooperation and trade” between his country and Britain based on their shared vision of “free trade”.

• Wednesday, October 17th 2012 - 05:03 UTC

  UK tells Spain border checks and delays in Gibraltar border are ‘unacceptable’

  

  Britain this week raised the issue of disproportionate Gibraltar border checks and delays “at the highest level” with the Spanish Government. The issue was revealed in Parliament by Europe Minister David Lidington who was responding to a question in an emergency debate instigated by the all party Gibraltar group.

• Wednesday, October 17th 2012 - 03:20 UTC

  PM Cameron inspects air carrier construction: underlines “Made in UK badge”

  

  British Prime Minister, David Cameron, visited Rosyth dockyard on Monday to see the work taking place to build the first of the two new Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers.

• Thursday, October 11th 2012 - 23:41 UTC

  UK reaffirms sovereignty over Gibraltar and its territorial waters

  

  The British Government responded to Spain’s intervention at the UN Fourth Decolonization Committee with a firm statement about its commitment to the people of Gibraltar and their British sovereignty.

• Wednesday, October 10th 2012 - 18:41 UTC

  South America solid behind Argentina’s Falklands’ claim at UN decolonization meeting

  

  The opening session of the UN Fourth Committee on decolonisation was dominated by a joint verbal assault on Britain by South American countries over the issue of the Falkland Islands. One after another, representatives of governments in the region called on the UK to enter into dialogue with Argentina over the sovereignty of the Islands, which are claimed by the government in Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, October 9th 2012 - 04:11 UTC

  Brazil strongly supports Argentina Falklands’ claim at defence ministers’ summit

  

  Brazil came out strongly in support of Argentina’s sovereignty claims over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands and criticized British military exercises in the Islands during his speech on Monday to the Americas Defence ministers’ conference taking place in Punta del Este, Uruguay.