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Regional C24 seminar in Jamaica in anticipation of Falklands’ June 23 presentation in New York
The United Nations Special Committee of 24, (for the implementation of the declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples) will hold its annual regional seminar in Kingstown, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, from 31 May to 2 June. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesSame as last year? And the year before? ....... and the year before that .... and the ad infinitum?
May 27th, 2011 - 01:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0Powerless, discredited and irrelevant ...................... same old, same old !
What's their remit again?...(for the implementation of the declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples)...
May 27th, 2011 - 01:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0OK, fine.....thanks for the kind thought but we'll stay as we are....bye.
....or are they going to try to force us....against our will...to accept independence. I wonder if any of them ever see the irony & hypocrisy of their position.
1 Rotted
May 27th, 2011 - 04:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0“On the occasion Falkland Islands elected representatives will be defending their right to self determination and to remain a British Overseas Territory”
Powerless, discredited and irrelevant ...................... same old, same old !
Must be a good defence .... after all, they still have their right to self determination and are still a BOT.
May 27th, 2011 - 07:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0Job done :-)
The C24 has twice organised referendum in Bermuda on independence and twice they've rejected it. Instead of listening to what the people of Bermuda actually want, they criticise them for not accepting their ideas. They make themselves irrelevant by not listening to the people they are tasked with representing.
May 27th, 2011 - 07:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0Morecrap
May 27th, 2011 - 07:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Funny that the powerless,discredited and irrelevant FIG is still able to exercise sovereignty and self-determination in its territorial land and sea boundaries :)
Perhaps Argentina is the powerless, discredited and irrelevant one? After all Argentina has proved itself to be singular incapable of trying to exercise sovereignty, over a few thousand sparsely populated islands with only a token garrison 400 miles from its coast....You haven't even been able to intimidate or even challenge the Falklands control over their EEZ.....:)
And the guardians of democracy and human rights on behalf of the NSGT's include Bolivia, China, Congo, Cuba, Ethiopia, Iran, Syria, Tunisia and Venezuela..............yeah right.
May 27th, 2011 - 01:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Surely every South American, and possibly Central American, member of the C24 should disqualify themselves? Actually, this should apply to every government that has publicly supported Argentina. They are not disinterested, principled governments with the welfare and wishes of the Falklanders as their guiding concept.
May 27th, 2011 - 03:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Come to think of it, why shouldn't Britain as the Administering Power and member of the Security Council put such a resolution to the Security Council?
Typhoon
May 27th, 2011 - 09:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the greater question relates to the two continents of the Americas.
There is significant genetic evidence in today's gene pools within these continents, that colonialism is becoming fixed and European colonial stock has taken over much of these continents.
Perhaps these great-and-good UN-people should review their criteria because many of the Members themselves are part of their colonial pasts, and so are part of the problem - and it would take great acts of altruism on their parts to be part of the solutions.
If all those with, say, 40%+ European DNA were invited to leave for Europe, think how the world would change! And for the better?
Check your own DNA before answering this one.
And one up-to-the-minute colonial issue:
Greenland is requesting separation from Denmark. . . . . . It's surprising what the melting of the Arctic margins can do for this colony's future financial prospects !
6# then why the kelpers are complaining all the time, the funniest part is that even when malvinas is still in british control, the people from UK is paying to keep kelpers “safe” in this moment europe has not the same economic power than before which means more pain in the time to spend money, some time the UK will not support malvinas with money so all this time your are spending useless money, when you dont give them more money we will stay ruining the kelepr economy, so this is not forever, how fascinating is the power of geography dont you think? LOL
May 27th, 2011 - 11:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 010 Searinox
May 28th, 2011 - 12:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0The UK is keeping us 'safe' from you, and since you say you won't invade again, it won't make any difference whether they support us with money or not, will it.
And you're not ruining our economy. You're trying to, but that isn't the same thing.
“ ... some time the UK will not support malvinas with money ...”
May 28th, 2011 - 12:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0All we expend SiEquinox, is money on the island's defence. They are British islands so this is no different to us spending cash on our own defence. In all other respects the islanders maintain themselves.
And it's always useful to have a place to keep parts of the armed forces. Somewhere they might get some practice :-)
11# if we are not trying to invade or ruining your economy then stop crying as little babies, keppeing you safe with one ship? my god jaja or the UK is stingy or they are really conceited about what they can do with just one ship.
May 28th, 2011 - 03:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 012# yeah but by your own way you will not have the same power than them, and they will not support you forever, so they re spending money to nothing.
the best part will be when they take off all the military bases from those argentinian islands.
besides im starting to think that islanders really believe that the uk “”defends“” them because they take care of them,
if you see the history you'll see something particularly similar,
before malvinas tatcher and the militars from uk use malvinas war to cheap nationalism and to keep the militar budget.
now the uk is cutting militars budget again, and oh they send war ships to “defend” islanders.
and even more, people think that if islanders want to be a “free country” uk will let them but no... UK want to use malvinas to get a part of antartica. and if malvians is “free” they will not get anything... but poor ignorants they still think they are beloved by their monarchy.
look how is all of this that even when the british or islanders say that what argentina did before malvinas war was to seduce the islanders. we give them a document and studies because they couldnt go to uk to except that they wanted that but they didnt want it.
i say it again to easy to manipulate and a little bit ungrateful jaja
''then stop crying as little babies''......er no. Pointing out that the Argentines are miserable cowardly bullies who would be better off minding their own business and their own country. Crying? No.
May 28th, 2011 - 05:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Actually laughing is mostly what I do when I read most of the rubbish on here. So keep it up.
And if your strategy of giving islanders ''document and studies'' was so great then you should have carried on with it, because now we have British passports and a free education anywhere we like. And quite honestly, you Argentines don't look all that appealing.
Monty69--
May 28th, 2011 - 08:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Question ) Why are Argentinians born.
Answer) To give the people that live in the Falklands something to laugh at.
We do not need the Falkland Islands to get a part of Antartica because -
May 28th, 2011 - 11:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0a) we already have a part of Antartica. Our claim precedes the Treaty and is merely frozen.
b) we have South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands which are a seperate BOT. Again there is no doubt about our sovereignty over those !
“keppeing you safe with one ship? my god jaja or the UK”
May 29th, 2011 - 03:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Our armed forces have proven they are able to defend the islands. 1982, son.
The C24 [another name for a dictatorship]
May 30th, 2011 - 07:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0whoever lets this corrupt group should be sacked, a compleat wast of money, their only aim is then forcing countries to do what they suggest, or nothing, set by the E.U. perhaps, if no mean no, then that is the end of it, anyone who belives in C24 are as bad as them, but again we will reap what we sow, send them to argentina, plenty of regions wanting freedom perhaps, mmm
I found the last speech by the outgoing Chair of the C-24 illuminating, focusing as it did on the “ ... the international community must remember that it was the express will and wishes of the people of the Non-Self-Governing Territories that must take pride of place....”
Jun 01st, 2011 - 05:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0Usual crap from the Argies followed, needless to say !
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2010/gaspd450.doc.htm
Redhoyt: I found it quite amusing how Argentina is claiming self Determination for the residents in 1833.
Jun 01st, 2011 - 11:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0I guess they got in the delorean went back and held a quick vote.
Laws being retroactive, ofcourse.
Well, they think that Uti Possidetis Juris is retroactive .. even though it wasn't much recognised before 1945 and is still controversial .... :-)
Jun 01st, 2011 - 11:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0“It was in defence of the principle of self-determination that Argentina”
Jun 01st, 2011 - 04:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Lmao.
Who actually appoints the members of the Special Committee?
Jun 02nd, 2011 - 08:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0Iran... REALLY?!
China... erm cause they have a great record in Tibet.
The best one though has to be Syria! I mean seriously Syria?! A nation who's government is currently using military force against it's own civilians. REALLY??!
I spent most of my life showing self-determination.
Jun 02nd, 2011 - 10:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0I was determined to do this, determined to do that, determined . . .
I think perhaps the the C24 are determined to do something, but everybody keeps saying “No thanks”.
Time to wander home with the ball under the arm.
“Nobody wanted to play, mummy”.
So discouraging;
“Oh darling, why don't you try a different game?”.
Just read the speech by the MLA at the seminar,very interesting and informative
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