Falkland Islands: “Nothing to Fear”
Falkland Islanders preparing to exercise their right to self-determination in a landmark democratic vote next March were pledged overwhelming support by the Falkland Islands Association at its annual general meeting in London on Saturday presided over by its chairman, Mr Alan Huckle, a former Governor of the Islands.
Main topics of the meeting were condemnation of Argentina’s aggressive economic actions against the Islands, measures to counter its misleading version of the history of the dispute, the developing Falklands economy with the prospect of its first oil flowing ashore in 2017, and tributes to Sir Rex Hunt, Governor during the 1982 invasion and chairman of the Association for many years, who died in November.
The meeting opened with these tributes. Mr Huckle quoted the Falkland Islands Government’s (FIG) sadness and tributes praising Sir Rex as a champion of the Islanders. In his report on the Association’s year, Mr Huckle condemned what the British Government officially regards as Argentina’s illegal economic blockade of the Islands. He recalled the attendance of the first British Prime Minister at the annual FIG reception in June commemorating the Islands’ liberation from Argentine occupation in 1982 and Mr David Cameron’s forceful reiteration of the United Kingdom’s absolute commitment to defence of the Islands and support for self-determination.
This theme was vigorously reinforced by the Chairman of the All-Party Falkland Islands Group in Parliament, Mr Andrew Rosindell, MP, who said the Islands had the support not only of the British Government and Parliament but also the British people. “The Islanders”, he declared, “have nothing to fear…I have no doubt the Falkland Islands will remain British forever”. He is conducting a campaign distributing leaflets to educate schoolchildren and their teachers about the Falkland Islands and the other British overseas territories. He presented the Association with a portrait of the Queen, pointing out that she is the Queen of no fewer than 48 realms around the world.
Mr Rosindell said he and other MPs recently met the Argentine Ambassador to Britain, Alicia Castro, whom he described as “a feisty lady…blind to reality” over self-determination. “She just does not get it”, he observed.
A Member of the Falklands Legislative Assembly, Mrs Jan Cheek, reporting on the busy 30th anniversary year, condemned Argentina’s increasingly aggressive economic and transport restrictions and the cancellation of some cruise ship visits under pressure from Argentina. She said the Islanders were making progress in South America and elsewhere in countering Argentina’s misleading version of the history of the sovereignty dispute. She said there was cautious optimism over the prospects for oil production with the first oil expected to come ashore in 2017. Already oil development activities are making a substantial contribution to the Islands finances. She emphasised the Falkland Islands would do all they could to protect the pristine environment and wildlife from any harm.
Mr Huckle remarked that there was great faith in the youth of the Islands when he announced the winner of the annual Bill Hunter-Christie prize in memory of a founder member and long-time chairman of the Association. The winner is Sonia Arkhipkin studying medicine at Leeds University, who was presented with a collection of medical books by his widow, Merle Christie. Russian-born Sonia was four-years old when her parents emigrated to work in the Islands as marine biologists.
The audience of politicians, veterans of 1982, and supporters included a group of young Islanders who are taking an increasingly high profile and articulate role in presenting the Falklands case for self-determination internationally at the United Nations and elsewhere, backed by a new booklet entitled “Our Islands, Our Home” outlining their views.
Association Secretary Colin Wright reported its healthy membership and finances. An appeal has launched for support for Stanley Museum and the Jane Cameron Archives.
The meeting was preceded by the annual Battle Day ceremony and wreath-laying at London’s historic Cenotaph, commemorating the First World War 1914 Battle of the Falklands against the German Navy and subsequent conflicts.
Wreaths remembering the dead were laid on behalf of the Association and other organisations. Wreath layers included Rear Admiral Nick Lambert, former Captain of the South Atlantic patrol ship HMS Endurance, for the Armed Forces; Legislative Assembly members Jan Cheek and Sharon Halford for the Falkland Islands Government; Mrs Sara Jones, widow of Colonel H. Jones, VC, killed in the battle for Goose Green, for the Falklands Families Association; Colonel Mike Bowles for the South Atlantic Medal Association; for the Young People of the Falklands by Krysteen Ormond, Stacy Bragger and Zoran Zuvic Bulic, resplendent in the uniform of the Falkland Islands Defence Force; and Mr. Andrew Rosindell MP on behalf of the UK Falkland Islands All-Party Parliamentary Group.
The service was conducted by Canon Stephen Palmer, former rector of Stanley Christ Church Cathedral; also taking part were a Royal Marine Bugler and a navy cadet colour party from Pangbourne College where the 1982 Memorial Chapel is located.
Harold Briley, London
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Here is the leaflet.
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/English_imperialism_octopus.jpg
He is virulently anti gay-rights, and wishes to deny any rights to this group. So much for “self-determination”.
Also notice how he said “the Falklands will remain British forever”... does that sound like “self-determination”?
Oh, and to put the cherry on the pie:
politicalscrapbook.net/2010/10/family-values-tory-sponsors-kinky-erotica-dinner-in-house-of-commons/
Rosindell is sponsoring an “erotica dinner” to educate schoolchildren :-))))
No wonder the elites (the bankers and politicians) call them “plebs” and “muppets”. They are 2nd class citizens, and saying they are citizens is a stretch.
Yes pity its 2 years out of date, 100 times I MUST DO BETTER
And the islands can be British if the residents wish , that is self determination you clown....jog on
OMG, two years... that's an eternity isn't it? Especially since the British hypcocrite (oops, pleonasm), still espouses those same views.
Funny how these Brits harp about things CFK did three/four years ago vs today, but start crying when the same standard is applied to them.
Hypocrisy again.
The words hypocrisy is a collocate of “British”, I can't ever separate them.
I can't stop laughing about this Brits in Malvinas.
Finally an intelligent Brit. Reminds me of my pet silk worms in 1st grade... they were a bit cleverer though and tried to escape.
Here's the Argentine indoctrination taught as a substitute for truth.
Las Malvinas Son Argentinas’: Who Taught You That?
www.argentinaindependent.com/currentaf...
@2 How restrained of you.
@3 Ah-hah. Another faggot. What is “gay”? Do you mean queer or homosexual? Let's look around this planet of ours. Can we have a list of the species that take part in same-gender sexual activity? “Gay” is just a word to disguise aberrant behaviour. “Homosexual” is true. “Queer” is accurate. Is this why argie “soldiers” turn their backs or go belly-down on the ground? Offering a bum-job?
@4 Unlike you, we don't get “excited” by pushing people out of aircraft.
@5 Rights for faggots? You must be joking. Next you'll want everyone to join in. But I have a special “tool” for your arse. A bayonet. You will be truly “open” to all comers.
@8 I don't get it. Is that all you could type whilst bent over?
@9 “hypocrisy” is only one word, you uneducated faggot. On the other hand, corrupt, cowardly, creepy, criminal, degenerate, genocidal, incontinent, larcenous, mendacious, necrophiliac, puerile, putrid, rancid, racist, scurrilous, scrofulous, useless, xenophobic and many others are all words that can be replaced by “argie”.
@11 Your mental instability is obvious. Never mind. You won't be “surviving” much longer.
Try this link
Here's the Argentine indoctrination taught as a substitute for truth.
Las Malvinas Son Argentinas’: Who Taught You That?
www.argentinaindependent.com/currentaffairs/newsfromargentina/las-malvinas-son-argentinas-who-taught-you-that/
LOL! Why don't you say what you really feel about Argies without holding back?
Not the UK but Argentina 2012 : - www.atfa.org/
(Pretty dispicable lot).
SILENCE IS GOLDEN.
Though I'm still waiting for this devastating lesson the EU, UK, USA will teach Argentina, I've been hearing about it for the last 3 years...
Just waiting for the real Tiger to show up. So far all origami... haha.
I don't think anyone in the UK wants to teach Argentina any lessons, I think most people in the UK don't give Argentina a single thought - ever! As a preference I would prefer Argentina to concentrate on it's own vast country and to desist from pissing off its peaceful smaller neighbours.
I think I could see people that.
Unfortunately, Nostrolldamus, your are not the President.
Your mixed up President has no idea of what she really wants, on one hand she criticizes the EU for its protectionist policies and the in the next breath suggests that Argentina would like to be part of the EU.
She is happy to go to the international courts such as the WTO to complain about actions against Argentina, but will not accept any WTO submissions that are against Argentina.
She will complain that the judiciary outside of Argentina is all corrupt and anti Argentina.
She will tell the world that INDEC's figures are a true statement of the economic performance of Argentina and how dare anyone dispute her figures/ forecasts.
Most of us came to Mercopress because of CFK/Argentina's actions against the Falkland Islands.
You keep telling us that you only post the rubbish that you do because of the hatred the British posters have of the Argentinian people.
Well for somebody who claims to be such an educated person with such an understanding of world affairs, it is a pathetic excuse for writing such rubbish.
You hide behind so many aliases - why ?
Really,
How childishly uneducated some Argies are today,
As long as they are protected by the British, they might as well be protected by the lord almighty,
As Argentina has more chance of seeing the back of the unsightly CFK than they ever have of argentina becoming civilised, let alone getting these islands,
Still
When they pick up the shame of their 1982 defeat from the gutter and get some courage,
They know where to come, do they not.
Still 2
They do provide the best comedians do they not. Lol.
.
I ask you good people (excluding Argentines) to take a look at this interview where Madame Casto is made to look a fool she also resembles a man in drag.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkEMS7diuDc
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2245320/Argentinas-coastguard-stoking-Falklands-tension.html#ixzz2EaPE4xAo
'United States and Uruguay discussed military cooperation agreement'
www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&idioma=1&id=789061&Itemid=1
'Defense Minister Arturo Puricelli, yesterday delivered the first four rocket launchers LVC CP-30 Artillery Group 601 Multiple Launchers Argentine Army'
www.impulsobaires.com.ar/nota.php?id=168301
Is he deliberately doing nothing, in the hope the CFK will attack the islands or provoke an incident so he can justifiably send in the navy?
Or is he hoping that she will just run out of puff and justifying his cutbacks to the tune that we have no enemies,
Either way mr Cameron’s government has been warned and all the danger signs are there for all to see,
We all know on here, that he could send either the new type 45, a submarine or two frigates, and state that all shipping including cruise liners are libel to be delayed and searched, just the fact that he ups the anti, would deter cruise liners from the south Atlantic,
We have said it time and again, its not what he says, its how they interpret it,
And if they think we are weak, then they will keep pushing, until the inevitable happens and violence is started, that make mr Cameron as guilty, does it not,
Fxck em all, send the navy with instructions to defend any ship interfered with by the Argies, run em off, or sink em,
But don’t just sit on ya bum David, do something…..
just my opinion.
she will keep pushing and pushing untill it happens,
then like you say, they will run crying to the UN and blame us..
They are dragging your country into a complete mire politically, economically and socially. They lie to the world (“no dollar clamp”, “i talk to the press all the time”), show themselves to be completely ridiculous (“militarising the south atlantic”, “court cases everyday against the oil companies”, the entire C24 pantomime), and demonstrate intellectual prowess of amoebas. I mean seriously, despite the thousands of economists and politicians who have tried to come up a successful economic model, only CFK and her counter model have the answer. Really, a “successful lawyer” who's razor sharp legal mind can't even work out that telling a judge that she won't abide by his ruling before the ruling, that it might, just might negatively impact her case, can better centuries of economic practice and learning?
Surely with all this ineptitude going on at the highest level you have more important things to worry about in terms of what is going to happen next to your country? Lets face it, even if the world lost its collective mind tomorrow and the falkland islanders decided to go with argentina, how would that have the slightest bearing on stopping the downward spiral that your government is taking you down?
Rise above them, in the knowledge The UK has the ability to cut off Argentinas arms and legs, and be back home for tea and scones in port stanley, but why be bothered when Crustinas doing such a sterling job for us??
Ooo, I like those ideas!
And - wouldn't our RN boys really enjoy themselves too ! !
'Dame Dover',
waiting for your typical Lord Haw Haw response.
I'm sure there has been a lot of good British diplomatic work behind the scenes, most of which you will never find out about. With the re-established Falklands & Southern Oceans Departments help, you will see a harder tone from our Govt.
@Anbar
I'm still waiting ...
www.argentinaindependent.com/currentaffairs/newsfromargentina/las-malvinas-son-argentinas-who-taught-you-that/
'What Escudé calls “the indoctrination about territorial nationalism” is a process that consolidated around 1945, more than a century after the islands were taken over by the British.
“Geography textbooks printed before the 1940s attributed to Argentina a territory of 2.800.000 km2, while later textbooks attributed it lands for approximately 4.000.000 km2,” he wrote in his essay.'
So essentially after 1945 Argentina quite randomly started claiming considerably more territory like the Falkland Island's but prior to that did not.
Interesting article. How 'independent' is the Argentine Independent??
Strange that this statement has such prominence:
“On the other side of the Atlantic, Schweimler states that for the British, the Falklands are still a distant worry.
“There is this often repeated story about the 1982 invasion. When it started, most of the Brits thought the invasion was off the coast of Scotland, so of course they said that ‘we should fight back’. When they realised where the Falklands were, it simply stopped being an issue. Most British people had no idea where the islands where, and now 30 years later most of the young people wouldn’t probably know where they are,” said Schweimler.”
Schweimler is after all, South American, isn't he?
My recolllection is there was, throughout the Commonwealth, an overwhelming support for the FI and UK efforts to regain the islands for the inhabitants, and it never wavered.
The Argentinians were happy to 'give the finger' to the British and celebrated loudly in the streets.
oh dear.... using that word “pleonasm” again - dead giveaway to your other account name - tutut naughty sock-puppet.
All this has happened before of course - in the 1970's, 1980's, 1990's ..... repetition, repetition, without Argentina getting any closer in its ambition to colonise the Falkland islands.
ARGENTINA ALWAYS THE VICTIM
Engaged in more disputes in various organisations around the world than any other country
Strange isn't it
these argies seem to be used to humiliation,
it seems to run concurrent with CFK.
www.argentinaindependent.com/currentaffairs/newsfromargentina/las-malvinas-son-argentinas-who-taught-you-that/
Tried to google“ Argentina Independent” to find out info on that news outlet.
Are they truly independent, or in somebody's back pocket??
Brainwashed from 150 year ago Pirates Capital(uk)
#59 What happened 150 years ago ?? Unless you mean Spanish recognition of British sovereignty over the Falklands in 1863 ??
post as 56:
www.argentinaindependent.com/currentaffairs/newsfromargentina/las-malvinas-son-argentinas-who-taught-you-that/
shame on RGland
jajajajaja
www.whois.com/whois/argentinaindependent.com
Kindest regards from the Falkland Islands
Dec 10th, 2012 - 02:20 pm
Speak for yourself, Tobias, you do NOT speak for all Argentines and I certainly do not hate Europeans, so much so that I married a European!!!!!
(But of course that's not going to happen: the more generations they they've been there, they more they can ask to leave British crimes in the past)
Thanks maty if that's not proof you really do have problems accepting your history and past, it must crucify you every time you bend to kiss the ass of your leader Crissy KIRCHNER now theres a great NAZI EUROPEAN surname if ever there was one LOL NOT EUROPEAN what an idiot.
andy65 (post 68) covered one half of my comment on your ridiculous post nicely. As for the other half: you are always claiming that us Brits and Europeans etc never post anything factual. YOu can back up that Argentines HATE Europeans can you? Do you mean all Argentines, the majority of Argentines, a significant minority of Argentines or just you and your crazy mates? Which is it and where is your evidence?
They found a [ever ready battery] and a [microchip]
Indoctrination from birth,
You are all controlled, but you just don’t know it.lol.
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The right to self-determination isn't alleged. It's recognised by the UN as a universal human right. Argentine attempts to limit that right have been rejected. See the “Mercosur summit” thread for details.
Otherwise, the normal course of events would be for the complainant to appeal to the court. That would be Argentina. Even Thatcher said back in the 80s if Argentina went to the ICJ, the UK would respond.
What's stopping you?
Argentina is a neighbouring country, and, as good neighbours, the Caribbean should urge it to take its case to the International Court of Justice if it believes it has a genuine argument for sovereignty over the Falklands, and, therefore the right to any oil that is found in the territorial waters of the islands. It’s what the Caribbean would have to do in similar circumstances
The same person also acknowledges that The United kindom as shown willingness to do this where Argentina refuses to-I WONDER WHY.
The same diplomat also points out the following
There are many good reasons why Commonwealth Caribbean countries should not support Argentina in this dispute with Britain. First, the inhabitants of the Falklands have determined that they are British and wish to remain so. They have rejected the notion of being Argentinian. The right of self-determination, enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, is one that Commonwealth Caribbean countries have long upheld, and, indeed, is the basis on which each of them achieved their own political independence.
“Most of their countries [Europe] live in the stone age when it comes to rights for all groups”
So tell me again why the Falkland Islanders do not have human rights? Something to do with land, right? Something to do with Argentina pride, right? Something to do with the islanders not wanting the same thing as you, right? Idiot. Hypocrite. Laughable.
“it's an “alleged” right to self-determination.”
Incorrect.
Every UN resolution asking the UK and Argentina to talk to resolve diferences over the Falkland Islands is conditional on the provisions of the UN Charter, because it says so.
It does not say only 1, 2 ,3 0r any other specific parts of the UN charter apply to the Falkland Islands , so therefore it refers to the whole of the UN charter, of which one part only is used by Argentina (National integrity), itself is a flawed argument as Argentina (formed in 1853) has never owned the Falkland Islands, except the time its' pirates squatted in the Islands from April to June 1982, when on the request of the rightful owners the Falklnd Islanders they were evicted.
@67 Your “grave” has already been “dug”. Down to the sewage works and accept your fate.
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