Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the European Union's decision to refer to the Falklands Islands as Islas Malvinas.

Since 1965 the United Nations has mandated the double nomenclature of "Falkland Islands / Islas Malvinas" in UN-issued documentation and a number of countries have chosen to follow suit. In all fora at which the UK is present, the UK will continue to insist on the use of the name that the Islanders recognise and wish to use: the Falkland Islands. The UK remains committed to defending the Falkland Islanders' right of self-determination and is unequivocal, including with the EU and its Member States, that there can be no discussions on sovereignty unless the Falkland Islanders wish. Following publication of the EU - Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) Summit communiqué, the UK expressed its disappointment that the EU noted CELAC's position on the Islands. The EU publicly clarified their position has not changed.