Falklands’ minefield clearance next phase moves to the capital Stanley Common

Saturday, February 12th 2011 - 07:40 UTC

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Falkland Islands’ next phase of minefield clearance will take place in Stanley Common greatly increasing the Islands’ capital recreational area was announced by Government House reports the latest Penguin News edition. Read full article

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Redhoyt
“ ... Stanley had been growing greatly in recent years but the available recreational space for its population had not ...”

An ever growing British population .... :-)
Feb 12th, 2011 - 09:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Be serious
The Argentinians are well practiced in land relief....so I'm told.
Feb 12th, 2011 - 10:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Redhoyt
They'd like to relieve us of some sure !
Feb 12th, 2011 - 10:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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briton
they should make Argentina pay the bill for this.
but that will never happen while argentina tells all they had nothing to do with it.
it should be ashamed
Feb 12th, 2011 - 01:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Islander1
Briton - 4- I asked that question once - the answer as that UK would not want North Africa to send then the bill for all the WW2 minefields in the deserts there! - hence each nation clears those on its territory regardless of who may have laid them, unless the originatiny nation offers to pay!
Feb 12th, 2011 - 04:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
TWIMC

http://en.mercopress.com/2000/10/27/falklands-mine-clearance-talks-in-argentina

http://en.mercopress.com/2000/10/27/falklands-mine-clearance-talks-in-argentina

Educate yourselves
Feb 12th, 2011 - 08:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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briton
but that was 11 years ago, not now
Feb 12th, 2011 - 10:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Redhoyt
Argentines prefer to live in the past!
Feb 13th, 2011 - 05:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
(8) Hoyt

Quite the opposite lad……

Is Britain living in the past, missing the train again and again since 1945.
Is Britain living in the past, trying to maintain some remains of her glorious colonial past.
Is Britain living in the past, thinking that today’s South-America is the same as it was in the eighties.

PS:
By the way, it was the FCO that turned down the Argentinean offer in the year 2000.
Feb 13th, 2011 - 07:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Redhoyt
Is? That makes those sentences a question Think ... to which in each case the answer is 'NO!'

For the last, South America is living in this time .... not that the time makes any difference at all to the Falkland Island .... which is also operating in 2011 ... and British too :-)
Feb 13th, 2011 - 08:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Monty69
There is a very good reason why Argentina is not permitted to pay for the removal of mines in the Falkland Islands. The Ottawa Treaty requires states to remove the mines fron their own territory. The Falkland Islands are not Argentine territory. I understand that Argentina was involved in the early stages of planning the demining, but their input was not required in the end. This is the correct approach in my opinion.
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Zethee
British military are better trained and in all ways a more professional force to deal with the mine fields.

As for think's

“is Britain living in the past” thought. Isn't Argentina's ENTIRE claim from the past?
Feb 14th, 2011 - 02:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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briton
Fact or fiction as nice as it is.
We have king Arthur and knights in bliss
We have a lion heart and robins best friend
Helped in the Falklands to
Beat Argentina in the end

For she was a pirate
Decent of the Spanish main
She had a navy that never really came.

For Argentina as she is named
Always game for a laugh
She tries to claim the Falklands
Bless us, she was that daft

But today we are here
And the truth is out
For if she comes back to the Falklands
The British will kick her out .??
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I
#13 not bad for a 15 year old but, keep your part time job sounds like you are really going to need it, you can always become a pirat later in life, poetry is not your forte right now.
Feb 15th, 2011 - 04:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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briton
mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
poems by the victors as the losers go home and cry, ok you win .
as for being a pirate, you wouldn’t care to name one would you.
perhaps my real name is Blackbeard or red beard Capt. Tate
Errol Flynn perhaps. still, even to be beaten by pirate is embarrassing for you isn’t it .
Feb 15th, 2011 - 08:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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