Goose Green Liberated of Landmines after more than 35 Years

Thursday, February 8th 2018 - 17:19 UTC

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As Mercopress have reported in a series of articles over the past eight years, the Falkland Islands are slowly being cleared of the landmines laid by Argentine forces during the 1982 war. Last week this process reached a key milestone when Goose Green settlement, the site of a key battle in late May 1982, was announced as being mine-free. Read full article

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Clyde15
Wasn't it PE who said that the invasion was carried out peacefully with no danger to the Falklanders ?
Feb 08th, 2018 - 08:10 pm - Link - Report abuse +7
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Brit Bob
President Galtieri’s address to the Argentinian nation, 2 April 1982

''Argentina will maintain its freedom of action to protect the nation's interests and honor, which will not be negotiated... Argentina is not willing to renounce its historical rights over the islands and withdraw from what is hers the armed forces who are and represent the people of our nation....''

To believe that the Falkland Islands and the territories in the Southern Ocean belong to Argentina because of the inheritance is incorrect.
Falklands – Argentina's Inheritance Problem (1 pg): https://www.academia.edu/35194694/Falklands_Argentinas_Inheritance_Problem
Feb 08th, 2018 - 08:54 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
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Roger Lorton
“Mrs Thatcher is talking of another Shackleton Report, looking to the future and a longer airfield. After the Goose Green episode she says that sovereignty will no longer be on the future agendas of any discussions with the Argentines, or words to that effect.”

Smith J. 74 Days: An Islander’s Diary of the Falklands Occupation 1984
pp.204-205.

https://falklandstimeline.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/1982-74-days1.pdf

And we never have.
Feb 08th, 2018 - 11:43 pm - Link - Report abuse +7
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Brit Bob
Ronald Reagan ,''Certainly, we will never alter our view that a people must ultimately determine their own future and certainly we mean this in regard to the people on the Falklands'' (Reagan -Thatcher White House Communication Nov 4 1982, para 2).
Feb 09th, 2018 - 10:03 am - Link - Report abuse +7
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Kanye
When will the first Argie Test Subjects be sent in ?
Feb 09th, 2018 - 02:28 pm - Link - Report abuse +3
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Pete Bog
@Brit Bob

“that the invasion was carried out peacefully with no danger to the Falklanders ?”

From his perspective (and that context just following the Dirty War) 'peacefully' in Argentinespeak means without killing 30 000 civilians.
Feb 11th, 2018 - 10:33 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
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Lynn
England will return the Malvinas within 25 years.
Feb 14th, 2018 - 05:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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