Tag: United Kingdom

• Thursday, January 26th 2012 - 05:25 UTC

  Do you agree Scotland should be an independent country? Yes, but…

  

  Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond said his planned referendum on independence will ask a simple question on whether the country should go it alone, though he didn’t rule out a third option of more power within the UK

• Wednesday, January 25th 2012 - 23:51 UTC

  UK says Falklands’ self determination is a universal right enshrined in UN charter

  

  The UK will not negotiate the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty “until the Islander so wish to” said on Wednesday a spokesperson from the Foreign Office.

• Monday, January 23rd 2012 - 15:15 UTC

  New Spanish minister proposes Gibraltar ‘quadripartite’ talks on cooperation

  

  Spanish Foreign Affairs minister Jose Garcia-Margallo is seeking to revisit talks on co-operation with the disputed Gibraltar UK Overseas Territory on a new variation of the formulas for talks: a quadripartite forum.

• Sunday, January 22nd 2012 - 23:41 UTC

  “Hard to understand why a country of 45 million threatens the Falklands with 3.000 inhabitants”

  

  A member from the Falkland Islands’ elected Legislative Assembly said it’s hard to understand why a country of 45 million people like Argentina insists in threatening a country of 3.000, and underlined there’s not a single Islander who wants to be an Argentine.

• Sunday, January 22nd 2012 - 23:36 UTC

  A “psychological war” to persuade UK to negotiate Falklands’ sovereignty

  

  So far it’s a psychological war to try and persuade the British to begin Falkland Islands a sovereignty discussion with Argentina but there is nothing to discuss about since the Islanders don’t want to belong to Argentina and that’s it, said UK retired Major General Julian Thompson.

• Sunday, January 22nd 2012 - 23:30 UTC

  Historic Portsmouth dockyard could face the axe, says The Sunday Times

  

  UK arms manufacturer BAE Systems said it was reviewing its warship business but refused to comment on a newspaper report that it was set to close the historic Portsmouth dockyard.

• Sunday, January 22nd 2012 - 20:45 UTC

  “Argentina not looking to organize a blockade of the Malvinas”, says Timerman

  

  Argentine Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman said that Argentina “is not looking to organize a blockade of the Malvinas” but only wants “to counter British interests” based on the Unasur and Mercosur decisions to bar Falklands’ flagged vessels from having access to regional ports.

• Sunday, January 22nd 2012 - 04:57 UTC

  Argentina is “not intimidating Falkland Islanders”; claiming sovereignty right

  

  Argentine Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo, quickly hit back at the statements made by the British government, after Foreign Secretary William Hague said that Argentina “should stop their intimidation attempts” against the Falkland Islanders.

• Saturday, January 21st 2012 - 15:19 UTC

  “Only the Falkland Islanders can be the masters of their future”

  

  In an article published today the Foreign Secretary William Hague sets out why the future of the Falkland Islands can only be decided by its people themselves.

• Friday, January 20th 2012 - 00:11 UTC

  Timerman: “Malvinas” strategy is working, not even English newspapers support Cameron

  

  Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman assured that Argentina’s strategy on the Malvinas Islands sovereignty claim “is working” and added that “the only way for England to get out of this mess is through direct negotiations with Argentina.”