Falkland Islands joins International Association of Prosecutors
The Falkland Islands Government legal department has been granted organisational membership of the International Association of Prosecutors (IAP). Membership is considered a recognition that rule of the law and independence of prosecution in that country complies with internationally accepted standards.
The Attorney General fulfils the function in the Falkland Islands of Director of Public Prosecutions, and his or her independence from executive control is guaranteed by the 2008 Constitution.
The IAP is the only world wide association of Prosecutors and was established in 1995 with the support of the United Nations. There are currently over 130 organisational members from all regions of the World. Its main purpose is to develop cooperation between prosecutors to enable offenders to be brought to justice more effectively whilst promoting the implementation of universal standards for the Rule of Law.
Argentina is an organisational member, and recently hosted the IAP Latin American Regional Conference in Buenos Aires.
Attorney General David Pickup, who is also responsible for the operation of the Falkland Islands’ Registry and the regulation of statutory monopolies, said: “I am delighted that the Attorney Generals Chambers has been granted membership of the IAP. Chambers is committed to delivering a high quality prosecution service within the Falkland Islands which brings offenders to justice, helps reduce crime, and promotes public confidence in the rule of law. The IAP with its emphasis on the promotion of effective, fair and impartial prosecutions and the promotion of standards and principles which are necessary for the proper and independent prosecution of offences fits very well with what we are committed to achieving in the Falkland Islands, and the opportunity of working with the IAP and with prosecutors worldwide is something we are really looking forward to.”
Member of Legislative Assembly Dick Sawle, whose portfolio responsibilities include the work of the Attorney General’s Chambers, welcomed the news, saying: “This demonstrates that the International Association of Prosecutors has recognised that the rule of law in the Falkland Islands complies with internationally accepted standards – standards which have stood up to rigorous tests of quality and law as applied to a plethora of other countries around the world. This type of recognition or quality assurance is important to a country which is so much smaller in terms of resources than all of the others in the Association.”
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A small country :-)
BANG! BANG! BANG!... whats that sound?! Oh that would be another nail being hammered into the coffin of Argentinas sovereignty claim.
The Arguments by the likes of Jorge and his minions of idiot's somehow fall very short when trying to belated and pathetically try and attempt to argue that the islands are not a country and a people with as few insults as possible ... I think in the end all it boils down to is good anglophobic racism and the inability to comprehend that people of British origin have as much as right to an independent nation as themselves....
You are amazing really, IAP is an ONG or NGO (non-governmental organization) lets say as the dentist association or Green Pace.
Anyone lawyer involved in the prosecution can apply, from any provinces, territory, etc you just to be a Prosecutor.
My uncle can apply, do you think that he will be able to declare his house a new sovereign country with self-determination?
This is what you will receive for your $40 “The Association also produces regular newsletters containing information and professional articles and has an active and burgeoning website.”
Copy paste from their web site very poor indeed:
“The International Association of Prosecutors (IAP), which is a non-governmental and non-political organisation, is the first and only world organisation of prosecutors.”
And his chairman is a prosecutor from a province from France “M. Francois Falletti, Prosecutor General of the Court of Appeal of Aix en Provence in France”
And has noting to do with UN, just one of the cofounder was working for the UN.
Can you see how you and the propaganda make fantasy from thin air.
What next dear Rhaurie will you say that you gain independence because you buy from ebay?
Grow up Rhaurie.
By the way good speech of victimization, yeah.
The racists British that have the racist “Prince Philip” in the crown better know as the Nazi Lover and having his relatives with strong nazis links call us racist?
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-379036/Prince-Philip-pictured-Nazi-funeral.html
What next?
Where did all the nazis go to hide out when they fled Germany in 1945?
Starter for 10.............?
It's something positive though, isn't it?
Unlike ”According to Paul Manning (1980), “eventually, over 10,000 former German military made it to South America along escape routes ODESSA and Deutsche Hilfsverein ...”
Potentially, 10,000 Nazi war criminals, or why did they run? THIS is the IMPORTANT recent history of your country.
Now perhaps read into the website a bit more, we are talking about organisational membership not your eccentric uncle wanting to declare his flat an independent republic:
Organisational membership is open to;
An association of prosecutors organised on a country or a jurisdictional basis;
A prosecution service organised on a country or a jurisdictional basis, and
An organisation, agency or foundation established for the promotion of crime prevention measures and the functions of which are closely connected with the prosecution of crime or an international unit, body, organisation or forum established by a state(s) or by a prosecution service to stimulate and improve coordination and cooperation between competent national prosecuting authorities.
No propaganda here other than you’re desperate attempts to scrap together any bad piece of news in order to try and prove in equally desperate fashion why the Falklands aren’t entitled to basic human rights and freedoms that you enjoy, come on Nicotine grow up, shows us why you bother arguing, good old Anglophobic racism, you just can’t stand anything British can you?
As for Prince Phil did you bother reading the article? Oh no you didn’t did you? Did you read the part about how he fought against the Nazi’s in world war 2 served with distinction, and by the way, prince Phil is a Greek, how terribly racist of us! We’re so racist that we have a Greek Prince! Whose so terribly pro Nazi’ he fought against them! Phil is known for his frank up front views at least he was prepared to admit his mistake and fight for this country, I congratulate him for such honesty, now if only Argentina was that honest about it’s own past?
Eerm yes as you said, grow up Nicotine
1- You wrong.
2- “anglophobic racism” ? wrong
3-Philip: In Eu juris sanguinis (Right of blood) he is not Greek else is German-Danish
from the house of Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Glucksburg and his title from heritage is Prince Philippos of Denmark and Greece but he doesn’t speak Greek but yes German better than English. And all his sisters were married to German aristocrats most of them Nazis.
When Philip became British he used his mother family’s root Mountbatten an adaptation German Battenberg. Nazi-Lover in your royal house, mate.
@ Idlehands & agent0060
Most of the criminal went to US and UK and not Argentina. The problem was that Argentina disputed scientist and Germans brains with US and UK like the Engineer Kurt Tank and Ronald Richter.
Kuter Tank en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Tank
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FMA_IAe_33_Pulqui_II
Ronald Richter, built the first nuclear fusion reactor in the world in Huemul (Bariloche Argentina)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huemul_Project and from this came the British propaganda about the Argentina refuge for Criminal Nazis.
Who were responsible for the rise to power of Adolf Hitler?
UK, France and USA. You put the German to the edge of despair with the imposition of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles and Weimarer Republik that sent Germany to collapse and.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic
You rank on the prosecution of nazis criminals in UK is poor than Argentina my friend.
www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2001/apr/25/warcrimes.germany
See what your fellow Americans think about your empire
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3mfisTVKmE&feature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTvaiW2g-Vw&feature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEyqwTkXmDw&NR=1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBULfTTdFl4&feature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGQzGmTYc4Y&feature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dWzZ_FwyUc&NR=1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT8k7YflT8g&feature=related
regards
I never was
violence the last resort of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov or was refuge...
Adolf Eichmann (the architect of the Holocaust) was probably your most notorious guest from the period.
@jorge you couldnt count your balls and come up with the same answer twice
1. No I’m not wrong, you do try and dredge up every negative bit to prove a point, the current diatribe proves that, a bit pathetic.
2. My accusations are not unfounded, your current attitude and ad naseum use of Youtube video’s and dislike of the BBC for “British bias” points towards an indivdual who has a deep dislike of any British which tends to decide his arguments for him, disprove it otherwise by making a point which does not have to always involve cheap shots at aspects of British culture?
3. Phil is greek, he was the last of the Greek royal family and baptized into the Greek orthodox Church, he doesn’t speak Greek as his family fled Greece during the Greco-Turkish war. Like most intellectuals of the time he spoke German, he also speaks Fluent French, I don’t consider speaking German to be an automatic nazi trait.
your letting your bias’s and overt anti British sentiment get the better of you, and dictate your argument, you said Philip was first a Nazi Brit, and when I told you up front he was actually a Greek you change your tune to suite your predispositioned racial sentiment. You refuse to read any depth into anything else and pick out the bits which support your bias, it’s called poor debating skills and leaves you vulnerable for attack. I see you also fail to acknowledge that at the time lots of people at home and abroad saw Hitler as somewhat of a hero, just the fad of the times that is all.
The treaty of versaille? I’m sure that’s a great excuse for starting the most destructive war in world history and wiping 11 million people based on their race? Hitler rose to power because he was one of these very few individuals who could harness the powerful motivating forces of nationalism, a bit like the Junta in 1982 over the Falklands.
As you always are wrong and you live in a burble let me show how silly you are by portrayed me as a “Racist”, please. First I would like to whom? Since when “British” are a race Mr. Rhaurie?
The problem with you Rhaurie is that because you don’t like the letter you kill the postman.
But for your disgrace Mr. Rhaurie this time the postman is very hard to be killed so don’t abuse of you luck, please.
Here and not from Youtube mate.
“In a rare interview, the prince said his family found Hitler’s plans to bring Germany at the helm of European power were “attractive” and admitted they had “inhibitions about the Jews.”
“The comments were published in a book called “Royals and the Reich,” which describes the German royalty’s acquiescence to the Nazis.”
www.amazon.com/Royals-Reich-Princes-Hessen-Germany/dp/0195161335
Here a from Scottish source and the owner was obligated and forced to move his site from UK now he is based in Panama.
“To get beyond the soap opera stuff and truly understand the Windsors today, it is useful to start with Prince Philip. Not only was he trained in the Hitler Youth curriculum, but his German brothers-in-law, with whom he lived, all became high-ranking figures in the Nazi Party...”
www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/royal_nazis.html#Prince_Philip
From Ynetnews (Jewish) is the English-language sister-site to Ynet, Israel's largest and most popular news and content website.
“Prince Philip: We were jealous of Jews
Queen Elizabeth's husband admits family had 'inhibitions about Jews,' sympathized with Nazis early on”
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3224655,00.html
And of course some Ytube stuff to illustrate the Nazis inBritain
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DON0o4XfVZI&feature=PlayList&p=CDA28DED80277443&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=23
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-bVcRB7CF0&feature=related
So why not the truth Mr. Rhaurie for a while?
Regards,
You really are a class A Racist, as that pathetic statement “when are British a race?” proves! It proves your incapable of holding an opinion not dictated by a hate of Britain or critical of your beloved “Parrot-tree”.
Look at this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5TOmRD_V48
That’s why I never look at youtube arguments….
As for your baffling attempts to present an argument by presenting select phrases to support your already averse racial bias, and select authors quotes to support your nasty little racist view point.
Read book! The author a renowned hater of Nazi’s congratulates Prince Phil on his honesty about his past, his guilt at being a foolish youth and despair at how his German relatives supported the regime, but states that they fought to defend Germany not Hitler and showed how nationalism easily sucks in vulnerable people? Or did you select phrases from google books? Eh sonny?
Scottish source is pathetic, no footnotes or evidence to support his accusations, I’m at a loss to explain how Phil joined the Hitler youth when he was educated in France and England? Or how “Brothers in Law” makes everyone in Britain a nazi? Confused I am! I see you fail to address how he fought against the Nazi’s as well, doesn’t support your bias does it?
On the jewish site you used the past tense, and failed to acknowledge: “I can understand people latching on to be something or somebody who appeared to be appealing to their patriotism and trying to get things going. You can understand how attractive it was.” And “who knew what was going to happen to the regime?’
Nico address your arguments from a less biased viewpoint, you are just proving what I said a racist compelled by your mindset to select quotes and ignore the larger picture!
eerm? why not stop your bias for a bit nico?
You seem desperate when someone beats you in a debate, everyone can notice it!!!
I hardly think re-educating Nicotine and asking him to adress his arguments by taking all the facts into account rather than just picking and choosing statements out of context is a good way to debate do you, by the way just asked your comment be removed, I'm all for freedom of speech but not little parrots saying nothing and trying to steal others debates to make themselves and their keyboard look big.
How are your right arm exercises going? You managed to show how high the snow was last winter to your brown shirted friends yet you hate filled little man? and how is your dad Cecil doing? Which country are you going to deny human rights to next?
1-Well started with... see below
Rhaurie:”anglophobic racism and the inability to comprehend that people of British origin”
Idlehands: “Where did all the nazis go to hide out when they fled Germany in 1945?”
agent0060 : “eventually, over 10,000 former German military made it to South America along escape routes ODESSA and Deutsche Hilfsverein”
Well I’m making my Nazi rout contribution of events that proves that UK was full of Nazis supporters Like “King Eduard”, Philip, etc. etc.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DON0o4XfVZI&feature=PlayList&p=CDA28DED80277443&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=23
This was made by The British Channel 4 (documentary from 1995) not me with testimonial and documents, etc.
So for someone that doesn’t know the rubbish has in his on backyard you are very superficial to lunch your... “anglophobic racism”.
2- British is not Race like Argentinean is not a Race is a nationality because a Brit can be black , Semitic, yellow, mixed or white.
By the way do you know Nick Griffin? Haha you are a joke mate
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMWcxqgzYdQ&feature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIHNJP9e9EQ&feature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsA_Xko4tqM&feature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1b9J8D3tOg&feature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhYdrl5KNz8&feature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldfj2LKAsAc
Here you can see him, lyric below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcytgP_2W8o
I try to discover
A little thing that me British
Oh Argies refrain from claiming my Island
I really hate you mates
I'll be forever mad
That you give a reason
Why you're making me feel so angry
That you give me a
That you give me a
That you give me a
That you give me a
Argies, I hear you claiming
Oh bastards please give a little Britishness to me
And if I should falter
Would you send your army down here
We can make war not chat
And live at hate in our hearts
I really hate you mates
I'll be forever upset
What religion or culture
Could drive so mad his neighbour
Don't you tell me no
Don't you tell me no
Don't you tell me no
Don't you tell me no
Argies, I hear you claiming
Oh bastards please give a little Britishness to me
I really hate you guys
I'll be forever mad
That you give me a reason
You know you're making me angry
That you give me a
That you give me a
That you give me a
That you give me a
Argies, I hear you claiming
Oh bastards please give a little respect to me
Argies, I hear you claiming
Oh bastards please give a little Britishness to me
@21 jorge! You wouldn't know a debate if it jumped up and bit your knob. If it could find it!
@22 NicoDin. Is this your entry for the “Song for Argentina” competition? If so I need to point out a couple of the fairly obvious rules. Although your entry is in English, it has to make SENSE. It needs to follow some simple lyrical rules, like the same number of lines in verses, rhyming words, things like that. I'm afraid you're in fourth place at the moment. Sorry, chum. How did they used to mark your report card? “Must try harder”?
I think you have made a mistake...
You should never have left the kindergarden...
If you had stayed in the kindergarden, you would have had a chance to be “kings of wisdom”..( though maybe only the youngest would trust you)
Is the best part of his song, considering his country withdrew from negotiations in order to invade the islands.
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