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Falkland Islands status is a legal status in the Falkland Islands (the Falklands form of belonger status) defined by section 22(5) of the Falkland Islands Constitution and the Falkland Islands Status Ordinance, 2007 and is considered to be the closest thing to citizenship that the Falkland Islands can grant.
A referendum on political status was held in the Falkland Islands on 10–11 March 2013. [1] [2] [3] The Falkland Islanders were asked whether or not they supported the continuation of their status as an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom in view of Argentina's call for negotiations on the islands' sovereignty.
An unofficial status referendum was held in the Falkland Islands on 2 April 1986. The result was 96% in favour of continued British sovereignty , with 88% of registered voters taking part. [ 1 ]
British sovereignty of the Falkland Islands and Gibraltar is not up for negotiation, Sir Keir Starmer has said, as he told MPs the islands “are British and will remain British”.
The Falkland Islands (/ ˈ f ɔː (l) k l ə n d, ˈ f ɒ l k-/ FAW(L)K-lənd, FOLK-; [6] Spanish: Islas Malvinas [ˈislas malˈβinas]), commonly referred to as The Falklands, is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf.
British foreign minister David Cameron vowed on Monday to help protect the Falkland Islands as long as they wanted to remain under British control despite attempts by Argentina's new leader to ...
Sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (Spanish: Islas Malvinas) is disputed by Argentina and the United Kingdom.The British claim to sovereignty dates from 1690, when they made the first recorded landing on the islands, [1] and the United Kingdom has exercised de facto sovereignty over the archipelago almost continuously since 1833.
The former prime minister’s visit to the Falkland Islands is the first by a foreign secretary since 1994 and the first by any Cabinet minister since 2016.