Major Commonwealth parliamentary conference opens Tuesday in the Falklands
The 43rd British Islands and Mediterranean Region Annual Conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association which is being hosted by the Falkland Islands for the second time will begin next Tuesday and will convene 37 delegates with Canada and Anguilla as observers.
The British Islands and Mediterranean Region is made up of branches from Alderney, Guernsey, Jersey, Isle of Man, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, CPA UK, St Helena, Cyprus, Malta and the Falkland Islands.
The official arrival date for delegates, invited observers and guest speakers is Monday 11th February, with departure on Friday 15th February.
The theme of the two-day conference is “Self-Determination and its role in Self Governance and Devolution”.
The Opening Ceremony Tuesday morning will include performances by children from both the Infant and Junior School and Falkland Islands Community School.
The Tuesday Plenary Session on ‘Self-Determination and its role in Self Governance and Devolution’ will be chaired by Margaret Mitchell MSP with the Rt Hon Baroness Scotland of Asthal QC as lead speaker.
MLA Mike Summers will chair the Plenary Session 2: ‘Arguments about Self-Determination’ and this will begin at 1345 with Professor Michael Keating as Lead Speaker.
Plenary Session 3: ‘The Right to Self Determination is not curtailed by Sovereignty Claims’, begins on Wednesday at 0900 chaired by MLA Sharon Halford and will include a speech written by Fabian Picardo Chief Minister of Gibraltar and delivered by the Hon Samantha Sacramento MP.
At 1345 the Open Plenary: ‘Experiences in the Development of Greater Regional and National Autonomy will begin’. MLA Dick Sawle will Chair with Hon Isobel Ellul-Hammond (Gibraltar) as Rapporteur. Delegates will be given five minutes to speak by show of hands.
At 1500 there will be a round up of key points from conference with MLA Jan Cheek as Chair and Rapporteurs the Hon Juan Watterson MHK (IoM), the Hon Tony Wild MLC (IoM) and the Hon Isobel Ellul-Hammond (Gibraltar).
The closing session will be at 1530 with speakers Keith Biles, MLA Dick Sawle and The Rt Hon Sir Alan Haselhurst MP.
All open sessions of the conference will be broadcast live by Falklands Radio. (PN/FIRS).-
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Probably too busy with internal problems in Argentina
Considering the programme and attendees, they will be able to frame and elucidate much better arguments and points than the amateur hour that is this forum.
Time to start flooding the airwaves with the truth instead of the twisted version that spews from Argentinean government mouths.
Can't wait for the result of the referendum to see what TMBOA and the stupid Jew do next. Suicide would be a great idea.
Sorry, you will not be invited to the party as we don't like you. Go into the naughty corner and cry, stamp your feet and tell anyone who will listen that it is not fair.
According to Timmerman the Falkland Islanders are all 180 year oldsettler transplants.
Can you tell us your secret?
Do you get everlasting life from drinking the waters of that waterfall east of Mount Adam?
Is it by eating the darker Diddle Dee berries by Mt Adam?
Are you rewarded with long life by having an Argentine bullshit filter attached to your ears?
Please reveal the secrets of your longevity.
Clearly the islanders only have to last another 20 years and they will get a second royal telegram.
Lucky buggers.
Hector`s daddy (Jacoba) emigrated from Ukraine in 1928 and was a popular human rights campaigner, so much so that the Argie. government of the day tortured and imprisoned him. Looking down from wherever, (died 1999), he must be really `proud` of his son.
Really??
the Falkland Islands??
The Mediterranean Region???
Someone needs to buy a new atlas!!!!
islands or no islands, Argentina is anti-british!
AFUERA DE MI PAIS INGLESES ODIOSOS!
27 days to the FALKLANDS REFERENDUM
BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID
SELF DETERMINATION
27 days??? Do you hear that Gustbury??? DanyBerger??? Tito???
In 28 days you can take the result of that referendum and shove it your ar*e aaaaannnnnndddd you can f**k off while you do it!!!!!
Remember!! 27 days!!! The world will be watching, and watching how you react to it as well......
My money is still on the tantrums and the hissy fits and the throwing the toys out of your trams.
Go Falkland Islands!!!!!!! Stick it to the man!! ( or woman )
After the result, HMG must come out and in no uncertain terms announce that democracy has spoken and that there will now not be any kind of talks on anything to do with the Falkland Island. Any and all such requests must be forwarded directly to the Islands legislature.
There is no need to rush independence. Argentina's antics has very little impact on the Islands and would contine after independence. So nothing gained there.
I'm sure the Falklands will look at a funding deal with the MOD when the oil starts to flow.
Also Argentina's attempts at economic sabotage and blockade isn't really working. Lip service by the Chilean, Uruguaian and Brazilian governments is already just that. Wait until their private companies start making money from an oil industry run by a business friendly government with low taxes and no chance of nationalisation.
Also Argentina's attempts at economic sabotage and blockade isn't really working. Lip service by the Chilean, Uruguaian and Brazilian governments is already just that. Wait until their private companies start making money from an oil industry run by a business friendly government with low taxes and no chance of nationalisation
AHAHAhah OIl industry in MAlvinas,tino? Where? How?
MAlvinas OIl scam...Poor deluded ex empire..MAlvinas has NOTHING...
US and French companies in partnerships will be starting 2nd phase of explorations in other areas to the south in 1-2 years time when they can charter rigs to do so.
It is happening - idiot.
I'm speechless. It's just impossible to argue with such well laid out and researched facts such as those.
SELF DETERMINATION
Is this loony for real. I can almost feel the enraged spittle foaming from his mouth.
I suppose impotent rage manifests itself when he sees that he is screaming over a lost cause.
I always have a picture of Malv. in my mind when he makes a post. It was of a taxi driver in BA when they heard that theirt invincible forces had been beaten by the despised Brits.
He was incandescent with rage, waving his arms and shouting, A-R-G-E-N-T-I-N-A, Malvinas, la bandera. He knew he had been stuffed by his govt. and us, but could do nothing but give display of histrionics. Something which seems to sum up a certain type of Argie personality regularly posting here.
Enough of this frippery. Lunch calls. She who must be obeyed has set out a plate of venison plus veg. and demands my presence.
@27 Desperation, girlie. Nothing but desperation!
Argentina is anti-british
AFUERA DE MI PAIS INGLESES ODIOSOS!
and CFK will be sick in her brain,
and there is nothing, but nothing they can do about it,
poor argies, your liars have come back to bite you.
Quite so, the truth hurts...
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
-- Winston Church.
Malvi-Baby!!!! At last you return!! where have you been hiding yourself son?
Let me be the first to welcome you back to the fold and say that the picking around here have been a bit stale of late.... The likes of Think and Tito and Gustbury and DanyBerger have become lost and even Marco appears to have run out of ideas.
If your blinding flash interlect at 27 is anything to go by then we should all be in for a wild ride!!
Welcome home son!! this place just wasn't the same without you!!
29 Anglotino
Do you think I overdid it??
I would have replied sooner but I was too busy blowing up balloons and putting up streamers.
Sorry gotta go again, the Marching Band has turned up for rehearsals.
Now I'm worried that it is me that is overdoing it!
I remember him from a response he made in The Economist
sometimes he uses the screen name of Jonas_BsAs and Ken Ridge
funny gay man
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