Principles of freedom and self determination for the Falklands remain as vital now as in 1982
Foreign Minister Jeremy Browne begins this Monday a four day visit to the Falkland Islands, the thirtieth anniversary of the conclusion of the South Atlantic conflict and in a brief message pointed out that thirty years after the conflict the Falklands’ people are being forced to defend themselves once more this time from “the policies of coercion and intimidation” by the current Argentine government.
“In the past few years we have seen a disturbing pattern of behaviour by the current Argentine Government which is designed to strangle the Falkland Islands’ economy and cast doubts about the Islanders sovereign right to stay British”, says Minister Browne.
However the British government will stand by the Falklands and “we will not allow the Falkland Islanders to be threatened or their freely and democratically expressed views to be disregarded in the international community”.
The complete text of the message follows:
Thursday 14 June is the thirtieth anniversary of the conclusion of the Falklands conflict. This week I will be representing the British Government at the commemorative service being held on the Falkland Islands. It will be a very moving and significant event. It is an opportunity to celebrate the liberation of the Falklands and the success of the British Armed Forces. It is also an opportunity for sombre reflections, for the lives lost, on both sides of the conflict.
This week we will remember those 255 members of our armed services who made the ultimate sacrifice for a democratic principle that remains as important today as it was then: that the people of the Falkland Islands have the right to determine by whom they are governed.
During my two years as a Foreign Office Minister I have had official meetings in many Latin American countries, most recently in March when I visited Chile, Peru and Colombia. I have been reminding the Foreign Ministers who I meet that the Falkland Islanders want to stay British, be allowed to live in peace with their neighbours and develop their economic livelihoods without outside interference. And that the British Government is committed to standing by them and steadfastly defending their sovereign rights as fellow British citizens. I will make this point clear again when I am on the Falkland Islands this week.
And yet, thirty years after the conflict, the Falkland Islands people are being forced to defend themselves once more. In the past few years we have seen a disturbing pattern of behaviour by the current Argentinean Government which is designed to strangle the Falkland Islands’ economy and cast doubts about the Islanders sovereign right to stay British. This policy of coercion and intimidation, which neither the Falkland Islanders nor the British Government have ever sought to provoke, is an unwelcome departure from the policy of engagement and cooperation we saw from previous Argentinean governments over the last two decades. It also goes against the spirit of international collaboration and economic cooperation which the British Government is actively seeking to promote, not just with Latin American countries but right across the globe, in order to increase trade opportunities, create prosperity and boost employment.
It is important that the Argentine government is clear about the position of the British Government: we will not allow the Falkland Islanders to be threatened or their freely and democratically expressed views to be disregarded in the international community. To that end, we have been working very closely with the Falkland Islands Government. Ultimately, this is about the people of the Falkland Islands, some of whose families have lived there for nine generations. We are supporting their efforts to explain why they wish to continue to be free to determine their own future.
In recent months the Islands’ political representatives have spoken eloquently and persuasively to the world’s media. They have explained how the Argentine Government’s policy of economic aggression shows a clear disregard for the principle of settling disputes peacefully, and how it has torn up previous agreements to work together with the Islanders on oil exploration, management of fisheries and improving transportation links. Throughout this period the Islanders have conducted themselves with grace, dignity and statesmanship in showing the world that they are a hard working, resilient and forward looking community. They just want to be left in peace to get on with their lives.
I was just twelve years old when the Falklands conflict ended. I remember vividly watching the pictures on television. Thirty years is a long time, but for people across Britain those images will still be powerfully clear. And the reasons why the war was fought and won remain clear today too. The principles of freedom and self determination remain just as vital now as they were then.
This anniversary provides an opportunity to commemorate both the sacrifice of the past and our enduring values into the future.
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Say's it all really but probably to complex for turkey neck to comprehend
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmevJzXALpk
Hahahaha C´mon! You gotta be kidding!
These countries live in the real world,'warts and all' and just get on with their lives ,imperfect as they are, while Spain and Argentina are trying to create a fictitious utopia based on false histories and inability to accept the real world as it is.
Argentina has no real claim to the Falklands and Gibraltar, 'Jebel El Tariq ' has been in British hands longer than it was held by Christian Spain.
DG is slightly different to FI as it was done pretty much at the behest of the US whilst the UK was “decolonising” (yep, really) Mauritius and The Seychelles during The Cold War. Maybe not our greatest moment but times are different now. It is 2012 not 1966 (or 1833 for that matter)
Dont forget to visit two stories greenish building where in Stanley.!
Laughter......Laughter .....GKBW
www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5jQCR3rJ1ZYwyjLa6ak-jKf98c5MQ?docId=N0197701339372016686A
GKBW?
Che?
The only reference I could find on Google was to a Trojan virus. Or maybe Ghoul Kirchner Breaks Wind (best I could come up with)
Persoanlly, I do think his snub is rather effective at putting the Argentine government in its place.
They were left stranded,dispossessed an relating to the tragedy unfoding in the front of their eyes.....
He looks confused and drunk like UK PM David Cameron..... did you all have read the latest news from the UK .....Oh! ....is the biggest scandal since hearing old Charles phone calls to Camilla saying he want to be converted as Camilla Tampax .....last week he accused my country Argentine of “trying to impoverish the islands”.. rather to accept the fact the THE ISLANDERS NEVER WILL MAKE IT ....189 YEARS FOR NOTHING1
Two wrongs don't make a right! Most Brits would agree that Diego Garcia was wrong and nothing to do with Todays Government or the Falklands. just as Most Argentines would claim that the 82 Invasion was wrong and not their fault. For Britain to give the Falklands to Argentina, would just be creating another diego garcia.
Perhaps you should keep out of politics and go back to miscounting penguins!
Similar tactics were used from the very beginning when new legal categories were constructed to faciliate the violation of other legal obligations.Along these lines ,the following will demonstrate how he British Governments branded the --Chagossians - as migrant workers in order to justify the dispossession and to dissolve their responsibilities under ARTICLE 73 /UN CHARTER....?!
Essentially he's like a more retarded version of the Argentine government but with the same predictable outcome that everyone laughs at him just like the international community laugh at CFK and tinman.
Jun 11th, 2012 - 07:09 pm
As despicable as that episode is, it is irrelevant to the Falkland Islanders and the Argentine Malvinista attempt to colonise them and neither issue has anything to do with you.
Having met someone who lived and worked on the Chagos Archipelago for several years before the US base was built I can say with some authority that you are talking through your backside here.
The islands were uninhabited until the French and then the British came up with the idea of developing copra plantations.The reason they were uninhabited was quite simple; there was no indigenous source of drinkable water. Everything had to be brought in including food ,water and contracted labour from south Asia.When the labourers had fulfilled their contract they returned to Ceylon or India.The only things which thrived on some of the islands were feral goats (behind 'the goat fence') and lizards. Over time some of the indentured labourers who had no
families to go back to were allowed to retire on the islands.
Come the 1950s and 1960s copra had stopped being an economic commodity and so the plantations were getting ready to be closed.
Along came the Americans who decided they needed a base there.They could have employed a few of the indentured labourers but most of the population of less than 1000 was non technical and old.There were very few young people on the islands. The Americans chose to import mainly Philippinos from their base at Subic Bay to service Diego Garcia as they had a long history of Philippinos working for the US Navy .
Britain paid £3 million to the Mauritian govt in 1967 and the Chagossians were to be compensated at £3000 per head (£650,000 in total ) and resettled in Mauritius which did not really feel it needed to treat the islanders as a special case and ignored them.
As of now without the desalination plant and everything which is brought in the Archipelago is as uninhabitable as it was before the French and the British set up the copra plantations.
we have told you, we want no trouble,
we just want peace,
but we will protect the falklands,
the question is then,
how far , when , and where,
??
briton !
Why do you struggle to write in long sentences .?
just write what you know only thing poems!
Argentina is never ever going to get sovereignty. NEVER.
They cannot do it militarily, and have no allies to force it economically or politically.
So, they have their lies, they go to MERCOSUR with them, they go to OAS with them, now to the C24. So..frikking..what..!
The best you will get from that is a few countries Brit bashing...and so...? Who actually cares...you still aren't having them.
You have no historical claim but a warped history based on lies
you have no moral claim
The people who live there either dislike or pity you
It ain't ever going to happen.
You could have cooperated on fisheries and oil...but you Wilkes like spoilt children, now you have nothing.
Whilst the Islanders will become fabulously wealthy and the British will remember....what goes around comes around Cristina.
The true count was quite accurate...
www.falklands.net/FalklandsCorruption.shtml
Especially when he’s tipsy,
He thinks CFK should stay were she lay,
At the tipsy end of the day,
For the brits are the best
As we don’t need the rest,
After a tipsy night in the nest.
A poem is good,
It sooths the nerves,
Stops the shaking, at the sink,
For after a few beers,
And bevies at night,
We all turn to tipsy think .
Up the British,
Down with the CFK
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I am glad that your father Cameron remembered after all.
Were you scare?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly0i3aQinCo
Shouldn't you be watching those with more wealth than you bash their cooking utensils or trying to get rid of your mickey mouse money?
Jealousy and envy creeps in .
It really hurts, when you want something, you can’t have,
So why not blame the British, most other losers do ..
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Try harder next time.
www.facebook.com/Britain1592
please stay at home and keep your oppressive ways to yourself And we the great and powerful United kingdom and Her many territory's do not want to be oppressed. in fact we will not be oppressed. the sword will always be sharper then the tongue
Falkland island ! Freedom From oppression. Liberty, justice and most importantly Self Determination. long after the Argentinean tongues have gone
Argentina go and learn from your mistakes and stop lying you only make yourselves look bad you look the moaners of the South Americas
learn its all a distraction. see with your eyes. think about the people living on the islands and think if it was your home how would you feel if someone threaten to take it away, change it from what you are used to too something you don't want it to be how would you react? if it was your home would you let them take it? with out a fight? even if the whole world was against you? even though they have little claim to it? wouldnt you want the right to self-determination?
Translated: “The geopolitical and oil interests today are still as important today as then,” as in the 60's on the island of Diego Garcia, where on the contrary, it was appropriate for the population EJECT, and now this man speaks of self-determination ...
It appears that is what you are saying.
what about their right to self determination? that you the government and peoples Argentine cut short?
Epic Fail Argentina!
Argentina tries to blockade and isolate the Falklands just like the Soviets tried to blockade Berlin and whilst the methodology is not the same, the mindset surely is. Of course Argentina has the sovereign right to decide who enters its waters and air space but it applies these actions against a non beligerent neighbour and it gets like minded neighbours to do the same. It denies history, and it denies the islanders rights. It breaks treaties and tears up negiotiations, breaks its own constitution and brainwashes its people. Argentina has yet to grow up.
Browne is honouring the British Commitment to support the Islanders toward more autonomy from the UK which is exactly how the UN views de-colonialisation, whereas Argentina ignores as many UN edicts as it possibly can. (Argentina supports colonialisation).
Browne is not going to speak to Argentina without the Islander's consent and not at short notice. Argentina's misunderstanding that official visits are planned properly, and ahead, instead of the random fashion in which it conducts its inneffective and ramshackle diplomacy, illustrates Argentina for the declining third world introspective country for whom all except despotic regimes are losing respect for.
What a pity, Argentina could be a great country, but choses not to be.
@14 I am examining the facts to see what happened here, but since you are dragging up past history would you like to remind me how many of it's own people the Argentine Republic murdered during the 1970s? Correct me if I am wrong but I believe that Argentine citizens were repatriated from Argentina into the South Atlantic from the backs of aircraft. Britain did not drop the Chagos Islanders into the sea. If you are going to pick on mistakes made by the British Government in the past, then you have only yourself to blame if Argentina's far worse mistakes are thrown back at you.
When it comes to committing atrocities and messing things up, Argentina beats the UK hands down.
Magnificent,extraordinary ,.....really ,!
@2 Diego Garcia was and is irrelevant.
@5 5 minutes in Buenos Aires or 30 seconds looking at CFK's “face”. Argies are evil!
@14 There are no Chagossian people. There never were!
@17 No most Brits who know the truth wouldn't. Read @22 and start to get some idea of the real truth. The “Chagossians” (properly the Ilois) were descendants of African slaves taken to the islands by the French. Over time, the were freed but became contract labour on the copra plantations. They were supplemented by itinerant fishermen and the like who paddled over from Mauritius. Not one single “Chagossian” ever owned so much as a speck of Chagos dust. Eventually, the British government bought the islands from the Mauritian company. The British gave the Mauritius government a large sum of money to resettle the “Chagossians”. The Mauritius government pocketed the money. Later on, the British government gave the “Chagossians” even more money. We're soft that way. Look at our foreign aid bill and the number of foreigners who flock to our country for the benefits.
@31 But they are intelligent. And they don't want to live with scum.
@38 You can't read, can you? And you can't think either.
Poor argieland. Total space between the ears. Is that where they are supposed to keep their brains? Or do they keep them lower down and at the back? Or have they got any? Are argies human? Or are they simply the dregs from some interstellar looney-bin? We all know about the amount of money spent searching for extra-terrestrial life. Are “argies” an example? Proving that there is no intelligent life in the Universe away from Earth. And look around on Earth. There is intelligence in Britain. But the farther you get from Britain, the less intelligence there is. Unless we put it there. Poor S.Ams. Condemned to ignorance, poverty and futility.
WHAT IS HE RATTLING ABOUT?...
THIS FATSO WITH DROPPING SALIVA.. .BELIEVES THE PAST IS PERFECT?..
HEY...YOUR 'PERFECT' UK PM DAVID CAMERON IS DRUNK ....HE CANNOT COPE WITH HIS POSITION TO REPRESENT YOUR.... “uk” ....
HE CANNOT TAKE CARE OF HIS CHILD LEFT IN THE PUB..
..UK NEWS.... NO SENSE ECONOMIC ...THE UK NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK... BRITAINS NATIONAL DEBT CRISIS...
MISS FERGI FERGUSON BROKE IN THE US CANNOT RESIDE IN THE UK UNLESS HER EX HUSBAND PRINCE ANDREW RENTS HER A ROOM....
DIANA SPENCER LOOKING FOR THE PERFECT WEALTH FROM DODI AL FAYED...AND RUB HER ASS WITH HIM IN FRONT OF THE uk....
OLD CHARLES WANTS TO BE TRANSFORMED as CAMILLA's TAMPAX
THESE ENGLISH PEOPLE CANNOT COPE WITH LIFE..
THEY ARE THE 'ROYALS'......THEY ARE BLOODY RUBBISH KNOWN ALL AROUND THE WORLD...
It’s 2018. HMS Indefensible has been handed over to the Royal Navy…
www.savetheroyalnavy.org/wordpress/a-vision-of-the-future
When we come, we come with all hands?
• Contact,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
“Admiral, I’ve been asked to invite you to choose which of your arms you would prefer me to cut off”
www.savetheroyalnavy.org/wordpress/admiral-ive-been-asked-to-invite-you-to-choose-which-of-your-arms-you-would-prefer-me-to-cut-off
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Well thats just awesome..... By the way, how did you lot come to be in South America..... Oh yes, by EXTERMINATION OF THE NATIVE POPULATION Now that is really what is meant by userpation!!! As you so strongly uphold this, we shall expect that you hand back the bit of South America you stole from the Natives. Don't forget to switch off the lights as you leave the South Atlantic.
If you want to claim estoppel, you will need to define whether you want to apply English or American law.
F-A-L-K-L-A-N-D I-S-L-A-N-D-S forever.
There is no Malvinas, otherwise there would be signs on the Falkland Islands saying so.
Numpty.
You need to go away....
This will be reverse colonialism, returning colonial population to Britain and replacing them with Argentine population. It is like reverse racism, in order to correct historical wrongs you have to forcibly reverse them. I have been reading up on Fabianism, it is very similar to Nazism, which is why I like it so much!
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