Netherlands Antilles disappear, become autonomous within the Kingdom

Tuesday, October 12th 2010 - 00:49 UTC

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Dutch Caribbean dependency the Netherlands Antilles has ceased to exist with a change of the five islands' constitutional status. Curacao and St Maarten have become autonomous countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, joining Aruba, which gained the status in 1986. Read full article

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Hoytred
France has done, the U.S. has done it ...... remains an option for the British to as it takes the Falkland Islands off C-24's list.

How about Falkland County ?? :-)
Oct 12th, 2010 - 01:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Marcos Alejandro
Not a chance, total different situation.
Oct 12th, 2010 - 02:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Frank
Yes, Marcos, the Netherlands Antilles had a resident Carib population before the coming of the Spaniards.... Venezuela has a stronger claim on the Antilles than Argentina has on the Falklands...the latter claim being non-existent .
Oct 12th, 2010 - 03:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Hoytred
A moot point Marcos ... but it would be easy to do something similar with South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, neither of which are on the UN's list of 'colonies' and neither of which has a resident population.
Oct 12th, 2010 - 06:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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xbarilox
Argentina is Chilean's obsession lol
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