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Falkland Islands

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 08:20:00 GMT
Historic event: Stanley, City status proclamation to a round of applause from some 400 Falkland Islanders
Continuing with the Liberation Day celebrations on Tuesday 14 June 2022, the Falkland Islands community gathered in the Town Hall for the formal presentation by the Governor of the Letters of Patent granting Stanley, City Statu...

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 08:06:00 GMT
HMS Forth, permanent presence in the Falklands, and South Atlantic naval guardian
HMS Forth, naval guardians of the Falklands have spoken of their pride of patrolling the Islands at keeping the eternal flame of 1982 burning. As such they joined the Falklands' fortieth anniversary of liberation and end of th...

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 10:15:00 GMT
“People everywhere have a right to decide their own future,” PM Johnson at Falklands' Liberation ceremony
At a ceremony Tuesday morning held at Staffordshire's National Memorial Arboretum, British prime minister Boris Johnson praised the daring bravery of Veterans, recalling that on the very day, exactly forty years ago, British so...

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 10:00:00 GMT
Falklands ceremony and parade at Liberation Memorial on the 40th anniversary
Hundreds turned out in Stanley on Tuesday to follow events marking the 40th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Falkland Islands from the Argentine occupation in 1982.

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 09:54:00 GMT
"We reject any questions over the Falklands' right to self determination," Foreign secretary Liz Truss
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss sent a strong message in support of the Falkland Islands people right to self determination on the fortieth anniversary of the Falklands Liberation, 14 June 1982, while at the same time recal...

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 10:57:00 GMT
Falklands War: end of hostilities, General Menendez surrenders to Major General Jeremy Moore
With the capture of Mount Tumbledown, Wireless Ridge and Sapper Hill the Falkland Islands conflict was effectively over and at 2100 hours on the 14th June 1982 the commander of the Argentine garrison in Stanley, General Mario M...

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 10:30:00 GMT
That’s a fine mess you got out of, Stanley
By Graham Bound for MercoPress – Images of Stanley captured in 1982 compared with photos taken from the same vantage points 40 years on, show a town – now a city – transformed.

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 09:53:00 GMT
The status of 'city' granted to Stanley by the Queen, another Argentine complaint in the next C24, June 23
Next June 23 Argentina will renew its request before the UN Special Committee on Decolonization, or C24, for the United Kingdom to resume negotiations on the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty dispute, which have been suspe...

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 08:25:00 GMT
Falklands issues 50p coin to commemorate the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth
A brand new 50p coin to commemorate the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has been issued on behalf of the Falkland Islands government, by the Pobjoy Mint.

Mon, 13 Jun 2022 23:45:00 GMT
Timeline: 14th June 1982 – Democracy restored to the Falkland Islands
On 02nd April 1982 Argentine Forces invaded the Falkland Islands. Patrick Watts, who was Head of Falklands Radio, broadcast a marathon 11 hours non-stop description of the events as they unfolded. He maintained a British presen...



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