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.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Falklands conflict when Argentine military invaded the South Atlantic Islands (April 2) to be ousted 74 days later by a British task force, but the exchange between Argentina and the UK has been escalating significantly as the anniversary approaches.
The officer was responding to a question on the Caribbean Community, Caricom, statement agreed last Sunday in the Caribbean island of Grenada which included a 16 points plan, among which a specific support for the Falklands right to self determination.
“To support the principle and the right to self determination for all peoples, including the Falkland Islanders, recognising the historical importance of self-determination in the political development of the Caribbean, and its core status as an internationally agreed principle under the United Nations Charter”, said the declaration.
The Caricom move by the Foreign Office is partly seen as an effort to counter the latest support decision for Argentina’s Malvinas sovereignty claim from Mercosur members (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) agreed last December in Montevideo and which consists in barring Falklands flagged vessels from docking in regional ports.
The Argentine government insists in its sovereignty claim over the Falklands and has adopted a policy of isolating the Islands from South America.
Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent & Grenadines, Surinam, Trinidad-Tobago and Montserrat are members of Caricom.
“The relation of the UK with the Overseas Territories is a modern relation based on partnership, shared values and the right to self determination and if they so wish to retain a link with the UK”, pointed out the Foreign Office spokesperson.
And “this is so much valid and true for the Falklands as it is for any other territory”.
“The Falkland Islands are British citizens and will continue to be free to decide on their future, both politically and economically, and all have the right to self-determination enshrined in the UN Charter” indicated the FOC spokesperson.
“Self determination is a universal human right and respect for this right is consecrated in the Charter of the UN as one of the main purposes of the organization”.
The meeting, held in Grenada, was held under the theme “Prosperity Towards Sustainable Growth” and was attended by the UK Government and members of Caricom. Numerous Caribbean Heads of Government and Ministers attended the meeting, with the UK represented by the Foreign Secretary William Hague and Overseas Territories Minister Jeremy Browne as well as Home Office Minister James Brokenshire and Minister of State for International Development Alan Duncan.
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MALVINAS ARGENTINAS!
DOWN with brits Imperialism!!
After the forced expulsion of the population of Malvinas from the islands, the invaders want self-determination for themselves.
Hypocrisy: English disease.
Falklands/Malvinas general and special resolutions are specific legislation.
Special law derogates general law.
:-)
Billy - try to know what you're talking about. The UN Charter is a multi-lateral Treay binding its signatories. UN GA Resolutions are merely 'advisory'.
Special law my ar*e !
Wake me up when you grow a pair.
Wake me up when you grow a pair.
You never wanted to go!
Down with brits imperialism!!
Anyway,uk is AlREADY DOWN!!
And you continue with your lies beef! Shame on you!
Ready now, to go to court when you are. Are you scared?
@5 Billy Hayes,
Prove it. And stop lying.
Does anybody know what the UN istelf says about it?
www.un.org/en/documents/charter/chapter1.shtml
The Purposes of the United Nations are:
“2. To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples...”
There is a basic principle in common law and in the continental system, specific law derogates general law, and this is the case. As UN says, Falk/Malv is an special and unique case, because of that it has special resolutions that must be follow by the parts; Argentina and UK as UN stats.
Come up with clear evisence and proof - or SHUT UP!
WE kown that the FACTS - as verifiable by documents in Arg Archives as well as British Archives show that:
The miltia from Buenos Aires were told to leave - and did so
The civilian settlers some of whom had beent here for a year or so- no more - were invited to stay or leave voluntarily of their own free will.
4 people - 2 couples left - one Uruguyan and 1 Breazillian. ALL others stayed on.
Their presence still on the Islands was referred to and written down by Charles Darwin when he visited soem 10-12 years later.
At least one of them - alday- married an English settler - and that family still has descendants here today.
The lasy of the original folk from 1833 dies arounf 1870 and is buried here in Stanley Cemetery,
Now the above are FACTS - easily verifiable.
Now you come up with FACTS and VERIFICATION that support your story - or Shut Up.
Your Comment
So was Hitler.
@13 Tell us, Billy boy. Is that “special case” not a determination of the Fourth Committee. A Committee that has NO power. A Committee whose draft resolutions usually don't make it to the General Assembly. And as pointed out @6 GA resolutions are only advisory. Historically, of course, Argentina is notable for ignoring Security Council resolutions. Much like Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi. And we all know what happened to them, don't we?
You need to learn some law!
Like i said in many others comments, it's true that resolution 1514, and the charter of the u. n. have fundaments about self determination, but what your politicians omit, is that both dont let any colonial situation to break the territorial integrity of any country, read resolution 2353 which reffers the gibraltar question, in one of it's paragraphes it describes what's the thought of the u. n respecting the relevancy of territorial integrity.
On the other hand, if the right to self determination is the paramount, and there is not any other alternative than self determination, then ¿why the international comunity voted twice in 1985 against the british proposals about including references of self determintion for this cause, why in 1947 the u. k. didn't include the dispute of the islands, when it proposed argentina to take the question of the dependencies to the court, why the decolonization committe still considers the malvinas-falkland cause like a special colonial situation, why none of the two parts proposes to take the dispute to the court, if the both are so sure of their rights, like they parrot all the time?.
I dont deny that maybe self determination is really applicable for this case, but what is really extrange is that none of them proposes to take the dispute to the court, beyond our wishes the best that we can do, is to investigate, we dont have to buy the partial truthes of the politicians, everybody is intelligent, the only one problem is that some of them dont like to make ample analysis, and prefer to buy partial truthes.
It was all somebody else's fault is just one step away.
CFK must be on double strength tablets at the moment.
www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/9491129.Ex_diplomat_urges_policy_change_over_the_Falklands/
The 28th December, 1832, the USN frigate “Lexington” under cover of a French flag to mislead the Argentine population, the pirate USN captain Silas Duncan, under false pretences (what else could be expected coming from an American?) invited aboard to discuss but instead took prisoners Vernet and his second in command. Then, after destroying all installations and small ships by cannonshots, they invited those in the island to surrended and come aboard.
Read it, in Spanish, in es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_Duncan
before someone changes all.
The US is saying now that the islands' government and posession is 'de facto' but, do you believe the Americans are, in any way, siding with us?
HAHAHAHA!
It appears that only President Cris is näive enough to believe it.
Chers!
Long Live the Falklands.
Down with argentine Colonialism.
End argentine Corruption.
Still flying high and proud.
Resolution 1514 refers to Non Self Governing territories only, not to all countries. Argentina is not a Non Self Governing territory so is not covered by Resolution 1514. The 6th declaration in 1514 is specifically to stop the territorial disruption of countries Non Self Governing territories undergoing decolonisation. That declaration is for a very specific situation.
Resolution 2353 does not change that. The paragraph in Res 2353 which mentions territorial integrity does not change anything, in effect it repeats what I've said above. Countries undergoing decolonisation should have their territorial integrity protected during that process.
Once a country is decolonised, it can do whatever it likes, including splitting up, as long as self determination is respected. There are many cases where this has happened, where due to self determination countries have broken up into smaller portions. Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia are two recent examples. The jurisprudence supports this as well, in the cases of East Timor, Kosovo and more recently in Southern Sudan the ICJ has found that self determination comes ahead of territorial integrity.
Argentina cannot claim that its territorial integrity has been disrupted in the Falkland Islands, because a) the UN does not recognise the Falklands as Argentine territory, and never has and b) it is the Falklands which are undergoing decolonisation, not Argentina. Argentina is not on the list of Non Self Governing territories.
the truth
or the argies,
and if the [child] is their standard then they have no hope .
Love it. +1.
Are you a Mercopress employee who talk yourself by different names,
or an official from London,or a member from UK unempoyed army.?
I doubt you can answer to me if i ask some questions.
You don't make a lot of sense, ldiota.
So when will you go back to Portugal & give Brazil back to the Amerindians,
They probably don't like your presence in their country either & wish that you would go to hell.
You are a fool, niño.
and you are not from brazil,
brazilions are respectfull,
not mouthy like you
go back to your hovel .
You really make no sense at all.
Are you using an enigma machine to send your messages?
YOUR EALL YNEE DSOM EPRO FESS IONA LHEL PNOW.
Leave the Falklanders alone, they don't want you.
AHAHAHHAHHAHAHAH
Who cares...
If you really don't care, why are you here ??
If you really don't care, why are you here
I admit you are a PERSISTANT LIAR
You have never lied yourself?
Never, ever?
Then you are indeed a saint. l stand in awe :-)))))))))))
I respect your opinion but i dont agree on it, that paragraph of resolution 2353 shows perfectly what's the thought of the u. n respecting the relevancy of territorial integrity, ¿did you read that resolution really?, beside article 7 of resolution 1514 affirms that the territorial integrity of all the countries must be respected, it doesn't reffer only the non-self governing territories. On the other hand, dont include the kosovo case in dispute, because even the court clarified about the exceptionality of the case, beside you didn't answer the 4 questions of my comment 18, it's interesting to know your answer.
On the other hand, i have always wondered why you never accepted to read my investigation, i already explained you why i decided not to publish it on line.
still a child has to learn .
Until Argentina can show that the Falklands were a part of its territory (not Spain's), your argument goes nowhere!
but as you are not human,
you do not .
but as you are not human,
you do not
Except the chimp like you britton....
a copier and yellow, you lost tosser
Don't you like chimps, signor?
They share 97% of their DNA with humans.
l think, however that malvinistas are lower down the scale than chimps!
Read again my work, specialy the susession of states, which was writen by a professor of public international right, and read also my final analysis, i can't repeat all the arguments here.
And thank goodness they will never ger their hands on the islands .
And thank goodness they will never ger their hands on the island
AHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHHHAHHAHHAHA
The island,you mean uk??I would not dream to go to a stupid liar,law breaker country like uk.....
1825 Treaty of commerce and frienship between uk and Argentina....
Argentina helping uk with volunters in both WW wars.
Over 5000 Argentines helping the brits in the war.
The RAF Argentine British squadron# 164
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N4cIh__tnc
britton: You are dumber than a chimp!
Perhaps you figured more for the for the Facist Axis powers of Italy and Germany even Spain?
Was interested to learn recently about the soldiers who left the Irish Army so they could join up and fight for Britain against the facists. On their return they suffered terrible prejudice from the Irish State. These are the people that truly deserve our thanks and gratitude.
And you are a stupid little child who just won’t grow up,
But if your ok with all the bloggers laughing at you,
That’s your business, so continue your childish insults,
As this is one toy, you will never own .
and the British Falklands will always be something you will never get,
“ After the forced expulsion of the population of Malvinas from the islands, the invaders want self-determination for themselves.
Hypocrisy: English disease.”
They (whalers, gauchos, pirates) were on the islands illegally. The British expelled them together with the USA. then Re asserted it's claim.
Ok be serious.I got you.Next time we will figth the brits....
Actually you failed at that even more. Argentina's military history has been one long record of failure ever since you intentionally used your black population as cannon fodder through sickeningly disproportionate conscription, and used them to fight your war of independence against Spain, and just about every war for the next few decades.
Hell the only success you enjoyed was in mass extermination campaigns against unarmed civilians and natives who resisted you stealing their land, but the moment you fought someone who knew how to fight, you were humiliated, and have spent thirty years crying like a spineless wretch about how you were victimized.
this is also why you spend near equal amounts of time gloating over Spain winning two minor battles in south america against Britain during the Napoleonic wars.
amazing how extreme nationalism can cause such delusions of grandeur/importance
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