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Cameron pays tribute to Falklands’ conflict dead and reaffirms Islanders right to self determination
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has paid his own personal tribute to the 255 soldiers, sailors and airmen who gave their lives to liberate the Falkland Islands. Making his first visit to the national Armed Forces Memorial as Prime Minister, Cameron also reaffirmed his commitment to defend the Falkland Islanders' right to self-determination. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesNice one Dave, can't say fairer than that!
May 25th, 2012 - 10:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If I'm honest I think the UK Govt. could have done more to defend the FI position. The UK have the stronger historical claim and 180 years of history and self determination render all historical arguments irrelevant.
May 25th, 2012 - 11:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But... If anyone accuses someone of something and the accused doesn't defend themselves vigorously, others will think they are guilty! This has happened with the FI.
Kelpers are British. Self Determination does not apply for british people. Only for native population. And dont tell me there were no habitants when britain usurped our islands in 1833.
May 26th, 2012 - 12:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0sorry, sooner or later our Malvinas will be recovered. bye, bye.
we don't have a problem with Falkland island. for the UK its not really an issue. the government ask the FI government what they want and stick to it. no democratic organisation is going to go against the will of the NATIVE population. continuing the statue que seems some what logical. what else can the government tell Argentina(its not like there going to listen anyway). with out damaging relations further? they could offer to take it back to the ICJ again but that would suggest sovereignty was an issue for UK government ( and its not)
May 26th, 2012 - 12:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://falklandsnews.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/jose-mujica-claims-the-falklands-for-uruguay/
May 26th, 2012 - 01:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0:-)
@3 Malvinas???? Is that a person or a place????
May 26th, 2012 - 02:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Out of interest, what is your legal claim on the south Georgia etc?
You RG's keep harping on about the Falklands, so for arguements sake lets say the UK give them back but keep the rest! What is your arguement that you also have soverienty over them???
Anyway keep harping on ....and on.....and on...... yaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwnnnnn! Actually you RG's are really bloody boring!!
Anyway keep harping on ....and on.....and on...... yaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwnnnnn! Actually you RG's are really bloody boring!!
May 26th, 2012 - 02:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0AHAAHAHAH Who cares,uk is FINISHED!
Just get out from uk while you still can.
cameron is a corrupt prick!
Pure mafia!
'Kelpers are British. Self Determination does not apply for british people. Only for native population.'
May 26th, 2012 - 02:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0willy.
See the following list of territories. They don't have native populations. Some never had them as they were uninhabited when discovered by Europeans. They all are or were on the UN's decolonisation list, with rights to self-determination.
Currently on the UN decolonisation list 10 out of 16 do not have indigenous populations:
Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena (inc Tristan da Cunha), Turks and Caicos Islands, and US Virgin Islands.
Formerly on the UN decolonisation list 13 out of 35 do not have indigenous populations:
Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Cabo Verde, Cocos Islands, Guadaloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Mauritius, Réunion, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and Seychelles
'And dont tell me there were no habitants when britain usurped our islands in 1833.'
There was a civilian population of 33, they were encouraged to stay and most did. Only the military garrison was expelled. And Argentina had not established any sovereignty over the Falklands when the UK took over.
In the face of this recent Argentine harassment especially, important to hear a strong, clear, unequivocal statement by PM. It throws the ball back squarely in Argentina's court, and in a way, it ups the ante - and I think implies that Argentines should reflect on their current tactics.
May 26th, 2012 - 03:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0Good to be especially on guard now as we don't know which way CFK's régime will tack on this - and possibly do something out of the ordinary in order for them to think they're cock of the walk.
Got to save this passage to trot out later when anybody doubts the stand that needs to be taken:
“They have this guarantee - that as long as the people of the Falkland Islands want to continue with their current status as a British Overseas Territory, then they will be able to do so. We will back them, we will support them, we will defend them. We have the Falkland Islands properly defended for a very simple reason - we believe in self-determination, the right of people in the Falkland Islands to determine their future. I think it's important on this, the 30th anniversary, to reaffirm that and to tell people in the Falkland Islands they have our backing, they have our support”
Thanks, yet again, for your assurances Prime Minister. It makes us feel secure.
May 26th, 2012 - 05:15 am - Link - Report abuse 03 Dick
So according to you, the majority of the people living in what is currently known as Argentina have no right to be there either. Would you care to explain how it is different for those people? Please enlighten me.
Take your time because we're not going anywhere and there's not a thing you, CFK or the 1980s Argentine military can do about it.
The people in Argentina aren't native either so that gives the islanders as much right to exist as the people in Argentina do. I am concerned that turkey necked gobbler widow they call a leader has been particularly quiet lately... Do you think she's at home with an army hat on playing Doom, having been told by her government it's their new VR equipment ?
May 26th, 2012 - 05:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0Malvinero1
May 26th, 2012 - 05:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0“cameron is a corrupt prick!”
I totally agree that he is a corrupt prick, but at least he hasn't followed your example and become a retarded prick.
My sympathies to the families of the fallen. My sympathies to those still suffering from their wounds. My sympathies to those who wake up in the dead of night, fleeing their nightmares.
May 26th, 2012 - 06:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0Thank you. You struck a blow for the Falklands, and for all of democratic South America. We shall not forget.
@3
May 26th, 2012 - 07:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0You describe the Argentine position perfectly, thank you
Kelpers are British. Self Determination does not apply for british people. Only for native population.
>>>>you don't see the irony of this statement versus every other country in the Americas, and that it is directly opposite to what the Decolonisation committee says.
And dont tell me there were no habitants when britain usurped our islands in 1833.
>>>>>Don't tell you this because you don't want to hear the truth, in 1833 there was the private Vernet settlement, all but four remained, and an Argentine garrison that arrived in November 1832, murdered their captain in front of his family, and were told to leave 3 months later.
“sorry, sooner or later our Malvinas will be recovered. bye, bye.”
No they won't, unless the islanders (the inhabitants with full rights to self-determination) wish them to be..
Very good point by Brit Abroad (No 6) - however childishly petulant of them to pursue it after 180 years, Argentina's claim to the Falklands has some historical basis albeit trivial. S.Georgia is altogether different - the Spanish never had anything to do with it, in fact it was in the Portuguese sphere of influence as per the Treaty of Tordessilas. The Argies first claimed it about 1940, on what basis I ask? Surely only that of proximity, in which case Morocco could claim the Canary Islands, the US could claim Cuba and the Bahamas, India could claim Sri Lanka, and dozens more such frivolous examples.
May 26th, 2012 - 07:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps the UN should just let Argentina claim ignorance. Let's face it, it is about the best the poor suckers will ever get out of life.
May 26th, 2012 - 07:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0I think the UK are playing this exactly right at the moment. The Argentine government can make any amount of noise and tell enough lies to make Pinocchio blush but nothing has changed and nothing will change.
May 26th, 2012 - 08:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0I love how the pieces of the jigsaw are coming together as the Argentine government makes mistake after balls-up and the international community moves away from CFKC's government.
i think 180 years and 8 generations makes them natives of the island. there formally not much younger then argentina
May 26th, 2012 - 08:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0What makes Argentinean native to Argentina?
Why do they want the islands anyway? least UK have 3000 reasons
And how and why do they have a claim on the south sandwich islands?
@Tabutos
May 26th, 2012 - 09:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Because the Argie tossers would make a claim on Rockall if they thought it would distract attention from the perilous state of their economy for another few weeks.
Who cares what Willy says he's living in fantasy land and making up history so his opinion is less than worthless.
May 26th, 2012 - 09:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0Not to mention nothing is going to change, the UK has all of the aces in having the only valid claim, economic/political and military strength.
And if that wasn't enough the Argentine government is making non-nonsensical claims and accusations that are obviously lies that everyone is simply ignoring whilst trying to deflect attention from its rather obviously economic meltdown.
Sometimes you've just got to let the dreamers (willy) dream.
@3 Argies are Spanish. Don't care what you call yourselves, you are Spanish. Self-determination does not apply for Spanish animals. There are no Spanish people. There were indigenous people when the Spanish invaded argieland. They're all dead now. The Spanish murdered them all. There are some things left that like to think they're “indigenous”. They're not. Just the result of innumerable Spanish rapes.
May 26th, 2012 - 10:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0@7 AHAAHAHAH. UK is so finished argies are shitting bricks because of (a) ONE SAR crewman; (b) ONE destroyer. (Note: argies don't have any destroyers); (c) ONE nuclear-powered submarine (Note: argies don't have any). CFK is a thieving slag. Pure gangsta moll with wide-open mouth, legs and butt.
It is worth noting that 255 real MEN had to die in 1982. Real human beings. Fortunately, they and their colleagues were able to kill 649 slugs. Regrettably, they only wounded 1,068 more. Even after 30 years the British Army are still investigating to find out which soldiers didn't do their job properly. As any gardener knows, no slug should be allowed to survive.
“Argies are Spanish”
May 26th, 2012 - 11:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0I always think of them as Italians who speak Spanish - with thick Italian accent - hence the cowardice streak that runs so deep in the Argie psyche, but not in the rest of South America.
@22 - There's an old joke in Uruguay saying that an Argentine is an Italian who speaks Spanish and would like to be English. And another saying that the best deal in the world is to buy an Argentine for what he's worth and sell him for what he thinks he's worth.
May 26th, 2012 - 12:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As for the photo, the men seem to be watching were those isles are in a map, a global map. Remember a little far, 14.000 km away UK. They are not in Europe. No, no. Colonies happens that way.
May 26th, 2012 - 01:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@24 malen.
May 26th, 2012 - 02:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They could be reading that after the Argentinian's cowardly attack on a defenseless population, they were beaten and sent home with their tails between their legs.
No, no. They are looking for a map. Where are these isles???????see their faces, eh Asia??? eh, no Africa??? Central America????eh, eh, eh....
May 26th, 2012 - 02:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Coming news in 20 years time. The UK has found a new testing siter for their top of the range nuclear and ICBM's... Buenos Aries
May 26th, 2012 - 02:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The principle of self-determination does not apply to the Question of the Malvinas Islands.
May 26th, 2012 - 02:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The specificity of the Malvinas question is that the United Kingdom occupied the islands by force in 1833, expelled the original population and did not allow their return, thus violating the territorial integrity of Argentina. Therefore, the possibility is to apply the principle of self-determination, as its exercise by the inhabitants of the islands would cause the “disruption of national unity and territorial integrity” of Argentina. In this regard it should be noted that resolution 1514 (XV) “Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples” in the sixth paragraph states that “Any attempt aimed at partial or total disruption of national unity and territorial integrity of a country is incompatible with the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter. ”In the Malvinas Question General Assembly of the United Nations included this doctrine - the principle of territorial integrity taking into account the interests and NOT the wishes of the people of the islands - in its resolution 2065 (XX) of 1965, ratified by later resolutions 1973 (3160, XXVIII) 1976 (31/49), 1982 (37/9), 1983 (38/12) , 1984 (39/6), 1985 (40/21), 1986 (41/40), 1987 (42/19) and 1988 (43/25). They all declare the existence of a sovereignty dispute. No self-determination. Reaffirms resolution 2065 (XX) Parties (Argentina and the United Kingdom) ”to proceed without delay with the negotiations recommended by the Ad Hoc Committee on the Situation with regard to the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, to find a peaceful solution to the problem, with due regard to the provisions and objectives of the United Nations Charter and Resolution 1514 (XV) and the interests of the population of the Falkland Islands. Since 2004 Argentina got the Malvinas question is in the permanent agenda of General Assembly Bureau.
@Raul
May 26th, 2012 - 03:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, the principle of self-determination does apply and no matter how often you repeat that same drivel it wont change the fact that self-determination trumps all other considerations.
Raul
May 26th, 2012 - 03:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Great Britain did not expel the original population in 1883 !!!!!
You are right Leiard, it was in 1833. When you are right you are right. If there had been many arg in that isles, believe then you would have never been a colony.
May 26th, 2012 - 03:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ok a typo on my part.
May 26th, 2012 - 03:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In 1833 Great Britain did not expel the original population / settlers.
Raul
May 26th, 2012 - 03:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I assume you know that what you have written is factually incorrect in about 20 places. As it is impossible to be THAT wrong by accident, one can only assume that either you spout that crap because you know that there is no better argument, or you are on the wind up.
The Falklands were not taken by force (unlike Argentina)
no original population was expelled (or subjected to genocide in the case of Arg)
Therefore no population was forbidden to return
Argentinas territorial integrity was not disrupted-Patagonia wasn't even Arg then
Resolution 2065 says precisely the opposite of your claim, I.e. That the islanders wishes should be taken into account.
The discussions requested took place, however Argentina disrupted them by being unwilling to accept anything other than sovereignty and then an illegal invasion costing nearly 1000 lives.
The decolonisation committee assumes that the territories wish for independence, there is (or seems not to be) any provision for territories which wish to maintain the status quo.
NOWHERE in any UN documentation is there “support” for Argentine sovereignty, just the recognItion of a dispute.
Raul is simply copying and pasting a false statement made of different UN resolutions that and trying to get to a conclusion that is quite clearly incorrect.
May 26th, 2012 - 04:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0One line from the UN charter proves his entire random selection of defunct resolutions is nonsense.
Raul has saved that statement he's obviously copied from someone else and posts it every few weeks or so as truth.
So for those replying to him, I wouldn't bother, neither does he understand what he is copying and pasting nor does he realise its fictitious.
Responding to this has been done to death in many different threads over the past year.
Recognition of a dispute. Recognition. Recognition - something the UN is obliged to do when there is a dispute between one of its members with another.
May 26th, 2012 - 04:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Also the UN represents every country in the world so just because one of its many self interested departments says -oohh Britain is bad, give back Las Malvinas to Argentina!- doesnt mean the whole UN actually gives a shit about Argentina's Peronist inspired obsession.
These are very simple concepts.
One great big massive castle with 30 foot thick walls ,
May 26th, 2012 - 06:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And a single Argentinean twit called CFK standing at the wall with a toffee hammer ,
Enough said lol.
The ambassador argues that kelpers arguello are hostages of the United Kingdom. is very wrong. kelpers are puppets of Britain and they love to be that.
May 26th, 2012 - 07:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and you indocrinated argies are puppets of CFK,
May 26th, 2012 - 07:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0are you not .
@28 The principle of self-determination does not apply to the Question of the Malvinas Islands.
May 26th, 2012 - 08:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You're right, because there is no such place as the Malvinas Islands, but it does to the Falkland Islands because the Secretary General of the United Nations said it does to all Dependent Territories examined by the De-Colonisation Committee, in February this year. That's 2012, not 1965.
@28 United Kingdom occupied the islands by force in 1833, expelled the original population and did not allow their return, thus violating the territorial integrity of Argentina.
If you mean the Falkland Islands which exist, rather than the Malvinas which is a fairy tale, the local population were not expelled. The military, including the murderers ( some later tried and executed by the BA authorities, not the British), were expelled. 4 of the local population chose to leave, but they were not forced to, they were given a choice.
The British could not invade Islands which were already British.
The rest of the civilian population in 1833, some of which came from what is now (but was not in 1833), Argentina and Uraguay were allowed to stay. The fact that they chose to stay under British rule must tell you that they didn't want to return to South America, itself significant. I understand, though someone correct me if I am wrong, that in 1833 there was no such country as Argentina or Uraguay but an area know as the United Provinces of the River Plate, and as this region did not extend at that time down to Patagonia (that was inhabited by natives which were later butchered), then territorial integrity could not be broken, as the British had a prior claim to the Islands from 1765. (This is over 60 years before 1833).
One example of Malvinista duplicity is that the invasion of April 1982 is ancient history and it is no longer relevant but at the same time and in the same breath a 500 year old papal decree to which England (historically speaking because the UK did not exist at the time) was not a signatory; is in fact a legal and binding document. Truly nutty logic.
May 26th, 2012 - 08:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Add to this an almost religiously fervent indoctrination of the Peronist Malvinista historical rewrite hammered into every child and you have the recipe for perpetual conflict. You could at least acknowledge that there are other points of view, you don't have to agree with them.
I think that the UK is taking the right approach. Let the Malvinistas pout and booty and tantrum all they want to. Let them speculate and postulate and demand but generally ignore them. Every now and then just remind the FI that we have it covered, the FI have our support, the Malvinistas can strut all they want. The FI is not the UKs to give to anybody and they are certainly not Argentina's to take. The FI belongs to the Falkland Islanders so, Malvinistas, please address your queries to the FIG not the UKG as being ignored often offends.
Nobody in the UK is obsessed about this; just quietly confident of our position and determined never to appease the bully. We tried to appease once but never again, the cost was counted in millions of lives.
One day the FI will be an independent nation. They are self governing already. All they need right now is an adequate defence against a known aggressor and belligerent neighbour.
My understanding is that the first rule of defence is not offence but deterrence. If a potential enemy understands that we will not be dictated to with regards to the Falkland Islands or any of our overseas territories and that we will fight tooth and nail for every inch then Argentina's potential as a de facto enemy is diminished. Sometimes being hard nosed saves lives. Appeasement is NOT an option. It is too dangerous.
Pete Bog
May 26th, 2012 - 09:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Uruguay got its independance 1828, and according to my maths teacher, that's 5 years before 1833.
Stop altering history so it fits your “facts”...
'The decolonisation committee assumes that the territories wish for independence, there is (or seems not to be) any provision for territories which wish to maintain the status quo.'
May 26th, 2012 - 09:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Monkeymagic,
Yes there is. Not all territories were removed from the list by becoming independent. Resolution 2625 lists 4 ways in which a territory can be decolonised.
http://www.un-documents.net/a25r2625.htm
1-The establishment of a sovereign and independent State, 2-the free association or 3-integration with an independent State or 4-the emergence into any other political status freely determined by a people constitute modes of implementing the right of self-determination by that people.
Many territories decolonised by applying one of the provisions in 2 to 4. for example several French territories integrated into France.
The 4th one applies to the Falklands and to the other British OTs.
“They are not a nation!
May 26th, 2012 - 10:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0” They have the right of self-determination in Britain!!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRgRh6qjSs8
You stillhere MorCrap? The Falklanders have the right to self-determination on their own Islands :-)
May 27th, 2012 - 12:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://falklandsnews.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/falklanders-a-resilient-people/
34 Xect
May 27th, 2012 - 03:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0Pathetic is your answer. We are not stupid and naive. It is not copy and paste. The truth is unique and does not change with time. Demonstrated historical facts and is completely true. The specificity of the Malvinas issue is that the United Kingdom occupied the islands by force in 1833, expelled the indigenous population is Argentina and not allow their return, thus violating the territorial integrity of Argentina.
I have no fault that you want to distort history.
33 Monkeymagic
You have to study the real history, not British. Contrastela with impartial historians and give a surprise. Carefully read the resolution 2065, clearly states that the conflict is sovereignty, not of self-determination. You decolonization committee of United Nations, every year, issued a resolution on the parties to resolve the conflict, that is sovereignty, not of self-determination. The decolonization committee of the 16 cases of colonialism, 10 cases relate to the UK (including Gibraltar and the Falklands). The facts speak for themselves.
39 Pete Bog
I understand that if someone correct me if I'm wrong, that in 1833 there was no country like Argentina or Uraguay but an area known as the United Provinces of Río de la Plata
These confused. You must study the historical context and social processes. The conflict extends from the period of the viceroyalty and the declaration of independence.
Argentina also suffered four invasions English: 1806-1807-1833 and 1845 (The Battle of Vuelta de Obligado). That is the context of the conflict. English colonialism and imperialism. Is the criterion for judging the sovereignty of the Falklands conflict, decolonization committee united nations. Just read some of your resolutions to notice.
Raul, I'm new on here, but I've been through the history of the dispute and think I understand it pretty well. In 1833 Louis Vernet's colony was allowed to remain in the islands. Some (a minority) chose to return to their home countries. The members of a military garrison were expelled. Sources include Louis Vernet's papers and Charles Darwin. How do you interpret this as expelling the population and not allowing them to return? I
May 27th, 2012 - 06:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Regarding the new article: “They have this guarantee - that as long as the people of the Falkland Islands want to continue with their current status as a British Overseas Territory, then they will be able to do so.“
If I were an islander, I'd feel a lot more comfortable if Cameron had said ”The islanders have the right to choose their status.” The way he says it, it sounds like tough luck they want to be anything other than a BOT.
Steve L
May 27th, 2012 - 06:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0I couldn't agree with you more.
That said, I don't think they care about your well presented and thought through post, they are more interested in batter eachother with personal offences...
Many of us have entered these discussion foólishly thinking that we were neutrals, only the recieve the abusement of one of the sides. So spare your time and pick a side, and join the pie casting...
@46 - SteveL.
May 27th, 2012 - 07:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0The Islanders do have the right to choose their own status as enshirned in the UN charter and constantly reaffirm by the British government, and they want to remain a British Overseas Territory.
If they wanted to become an independent nation, Britain would not stand in their way. If fact the only country ignoring the rights of the Falkland Islanders are the Argentinians, who say they have no rights, and certainly no right to choose to live their lives as they wish to. The way the situation stands is that if the Islanders declared independence and the British withdrew their protection, then the Argentines would immediately invade, and oppress them removing their independence. And since the Islanders are not stupid they know this,
Currently the Islanders have the best of both worlds. They are completely autonomous in everything (except foreign policy and defence), can live their lives in freedom and the knowledge that Britian will defend them from Argentine aggression.
The Argentines want to turn back the clock to the mythical '1833', to try and make their claim valid. But we are no longer in the 19C, and you can't apply 21c laws retrospectively. Besides, even if we did 'turn back the clock' the Argentine claim would be invalid since their illegal penal colony invaded the sovereign territory of another country.
The difference between the British and Argentines politicians is that our politicians don't need to scream and foam at the mouth to get their point across. All the hysterionics coming out of Argentina lately has been for domestic consumption, to divert the publics attention away from the dire state of the economy. That economy is teetering ever closer to spilling into the abyss. But there are none so blind as those who will not see.
Leproso
May 27th, 2012 - 07:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0In the 2nd half of your post, you talk about something you think you know. On the 1st, about something you don't know...
Raul
May 27th, 2012 - 07:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0I suggest that you “carefully read UN resolution 2065”
”1. Invites the Governments of Argentina and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to proceed without delay with the negotiations recommended by the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the
Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial
Countries and Peoples with a view to finding a peaceful solution to the problem, bearing in mind the provisions and objectives of the Charter of the United
Nations and of General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) and the interests of the
population of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas);”
Note the following:1) Bearing in mind the interests of the population
2) taking into account resolution 1514
So let's look at 1514
Conscious of the need for the creation of conditions of stability and well-being and peaceful and friendly relations based on respect for the principles of equal rights and self-determination of all peoples, and of universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion,
So there you are, your “beloved 2065” that recognises a sovereignty dispute...recommends three things...
1) dialogue to resolve the dispute, which the UK has entered into on multiple occasions, and the Argentines have at best stormed out of and at worst started a war during,
2) take into account the wishes of population, which the British always do and the Argentines never do
3) take into account previous resolutions which absolutely spell out the right to self determination of all people's.
As for the history you wish to rewrite...doesn't matter, you believe your version (wrong) if you wish. But lying about UN resolutions is easy to disprove.
I don't think you Argentinean get it. so ill spell it out. the islands Will likely never be yours in our and our children life time. and some possibly never at all
May 27th, 2012 - 07:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0your government will fail using there present approach. and they will fail badly. they are putting any hope of realistic peaceful solution short medium and in to the long term. they lie to you every day. they fill you hearts with false dreams. i feel sorry for you
Monkeymagic: Raul only reads the parts he wants to, the rest is ignored for his Argument.
May 27th, 2012 - 09:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0The Argentines keep pointing to UNGA Resolutions to back up their case which in truth are far more supportive of the British position on the Falklands. One wonders why they don't just give up. It's not as though they have a case or anything. People like Raul here just rant and rant about their beloved 'Malvinas' and don't give a damn about International Law, which contrary to what they might like to believe is actually on our side. It's really getting childish now.
May 27th, 2012 - 10:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Post me one (1) link prooving the international community is on Britains side on this matter.... :)
May 27th, 2012 - 10:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0@46 SteveL
May 27th, 2012 - 11:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0I am a Falkland Islander. Our choice to remain a BOT is a simple one. We would be risking the loss of our homes, community and way of life if we became independent in light of current hostilty from Argentina.
A BOT works for us, in fact I never give it a second thought. Any suggestion that we are 'hostage' to Britain, or not permitted to make our own decisions, is nonsense.
honoria
May 27th, 2012 - 11:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0You are not permitted to take any decisions when it comes to foreign politics and defence. Furthermore, all visitors to the islands are to pass through a British militarised zone in form of Mount Pleasant. Every person wanting to move to the “Falklands” has to have an employment in order to be accepted, that's before even going there. Not to mention the blood dependancy.
You are controlled by the brits, like it or not
56 Guzz
May 27th, 2012 - 11:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0Our opinion is sought in matters of foreign policy but as as we CHOOSE to be a BOT, we accept that the final decision rests with Britain. What business is this of yours?
Yes, all overseas visitors land at Mount Pleasant airport, which is contained within a military facility. The airport fulfills its function - people fly in, people fly out. I have no problem with this and am surprised you even mention it.
Employment is an issue for you? You protest that if you want to live here you have to get a job? I would ask what your preferred scenario would be, but I fear it would have something to do with you idling your days away at public expense.
I thought we had established that your concerns for our gene pool are unfounded and simply a product of your fevered imagination.
@54 It seems you have misread my comment. I said that international law is on Britain's side. I have no need to post a link for that as the relevant resolutions have already been posted. The UN backs the islanders right to self-determination, as shown in post number 50. By their own laws negotiations can only take place if the islanders rights to self-determination are respected. Seeing as Argentina does not respect them, no negotiations can take place. In light of this, in addition to International Law, the International Community (i.e. The UN) backs us as well. Then again, who really supports you anyway? 11 out of the 12 countries in SA (Chile's position seems to swing back and forth), a handful of Caribbean islands, Iran and China. Who supports Britain? Everyone in Europe except Spain (Around 50 countries), nearly all of the Commonwealth (another 50 countries) and even the intelligent people in your own country!
May 27th, 2012 - 11:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.mercopress.com/2012/02/23/argentine-group-insists-with-falklands-self-determination-and-sharing-natural-resources
Seems Britain has a tad more support than you...
Honoria
May 27th, 2012 - 11:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0You might be right it's not my problem, but don't expect the world to believe your self-determination farce...
58
Post me proofs of what you say. Not many nations, except your own commonwealth minions supports your cause. And don't throw the Lissabon treaty on me, most EU countries didn't even get the choice to vote it through, and those who did, voted NO :)
Guzz
May 27th, 2012 - 12:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina's claim is not an international issue. It barely makes the British press, never mind the rest of the world. This is because the issue is clear cut and there is nothing to excite interest on the world stage. The only time anyone does notice is when well educated but poorly informed members of the Argentine government insist on making fools of themselves in public. Let's face it, even your neighbours are only paying lip service to Argentina's crazy stunts. Do you believe they really care?
Well, South America as an entity shared the same stance as Argentina, with no exception anymore (Colombia has taken Argentinas side). Iran, Mexico and China too... Thats 13 nations. UK and France have voiced the support for UK's claims, that's 2 nations. And finally, US has taken a neutral stance (not the same as not caring). All in all, 16 nations do care about the issue. How many nations were involved in the world wars? :)
May 27th, 2012 - 12:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@59 and 61
May 27th, 2012 - 12:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't remember saying anything about the Lisbon Treaty. I personally am against the EU, but that doesn't change the fact that the EU supports Britain in this instance. The Commonwealth countries are not Britain's 'minions', they are Britain's allies. India for example is in the commonwealth, and they have recently shown interest in oil exploration in the Falklands, in violation of Argentina's rants. If you frequently read Mercopress then you will already know this. They support us, yet you are a very foolish man (or woman?) indeed if you claim that they are Britain's minions. You don't seem to quite grasp the idea that the British Empire no longer exists. The commonwealth countries support us because they are our friends, the same reason that SA supports you.
I see Raul has been comprehensively debunked with his copying and pasting for the millionth time.
May 27th, 2012 - 12:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Actually Guzz, all 27 EU countries although arguably 26 with Spain support the UK position as does the commonwealth so the UK has a lot of support.
Although the difference between the UK and Argentina is, the UK government doesn't consider it a problem and as such doesn't run around to anyone that will listen begging support.
As for SA support, that is nothing more than lip service. If you are claiming it is anything more then SA as a continent would actually do something.
The truth of it is nearly all SA countries seek UK investment and technology where it is available and the UK has good relations with nearly all SA countries so some token words about the Falkland's really don't matter at all.
62
May 27th, 2012 - 01:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0India had interests in Malvinas oil yes. Why did they not follow it through?
Fact is, India has no official stance on the islands (Falklands/Malvinas)
The EU's only mentioning of the Falklands is in the Lissabon treaty. Furthermore, Spain and Italy have already hinted whom they support.
Xect
Nice to see you again, although, as always, I have to disagree :)
Pardon me, see above.
Is that a bit like Chile and the USA hinting who they support?
May 27th, 2012 - 01:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If we are measuring support in numbers of countries through treaties and words, as ever the UK wins.
Not all all, dear Xect. Chile officially supports Argentina, and USA official stance is neutral. If you want to count nations, whole Celac supports Argentina, 33 sovereign nations. Officially (although, like the Lisbon treaty, no one voted them there).
May 27th, 2012 - 01:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I said hinting not officially.
May 27th, 2012 - 01:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well there's 27 EU states and 53 commonwealth countries so again its a non-contest. Not to mention the 27 EU states are the most powerful group of countries in the world.
Although its all rather academic since the UK doesn't officially seek support like Argentina does because quite frankly it doesn't need any support since Argentina has no valid claim and the UK has all of the power.
Cuban Prensa Latina News Agency adds its own bit to UN Decolonization Committee press release about upcoming regional meeting in Ecuador - that CFK going to the main UN meeting and Falklands are her theme:
May 27th, 2012 - 02:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=510765&Itemid=1
UN Decolonization Committee press release:
http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=510765&Itemid=1
UN Decolonization Committee having members like Russia, with its Kaliningrad exclave and Kurile Islands seems rather a conflict of interest, as well as the absence of any French Overseas territory except New Caledonia. Hypocrisy abounds...
Xect
May 27th, 2012 - 02:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Only thing I've seen regarding any support to the British claim, is the Lisbon treaty. Please educate me in the opinion of the Commonwealth COUNTRIES. With facts, please (which means links, not your personal convictions)
Guzz
May 27th, 2012 - 03:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The support of Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc for the UK claim is well documented, you can google it as well as anyone can. Singapore government is a % owner of RKH exploration, so clearly they have no concerns either.
But generally it is a stupid debate because 90% of the worlds countries don't care and never voice an opinion either way. Like it or otherwise, this indirectly supports the status quo as nothing will change unless a major global player is prepared to materially support the Argentine claim.
If you limit that to countries who's support for Argentina would “concern” the UK, it would be China, Russia and Brazil or stretching the bounds of likelihood France, Germany, Canada, USA, Japan.
So, what have Brazil, China and Russia ever MATERIALLY done to support Argentina? trade embargoes against the UK? Diplomatic pressure? military support in 1982? NOTHING ZIP, SQUAT, NADA....not a thing!
Yet when push came to shove in 1982, which way did the neutral US fall? Oh yes, alongside the British. Even the garlic-swilling surrender monkeys the French, gave assistance when requested.
Your “friends” did nothing, are doing nothing, will do nothing. Should we need them, ours have, are, and will be there when we need them.
Monkeymagic
May 27th, 2012 - 03:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Problem with you is that, as long as children aren't getting shot at, you define it as “doing nothing”...
Guzz
May 27th, 2012 - 04:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Clearly in my above post where I said trade embargoes and diplomatic pressure, you read “children being killed”
Not content with lying about the Falklands, you now lie about what other people write.
Ho hum.
“So, what have Brazil, China and Russia ever MATERIALLY done to support Argentina? trade embargoes against the UK? Diplomatic pressure? military support in 1982? NOTHING ZIP, SQUAT, NADA....not a thing!”
May 27th, 2012 - 04:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Material trade embargoes? Material diplomatic pressure?
Don't be silly... We all know what you mean, yourself included
Dear 46 Steve_L
May 27th, 2012 - 04:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0When you refer to historical sources and documents of Louis Vernett Charles Darwin Research by Argentine and Latin American historians clearly stated that the Argentines were expelled. Just look at the Royal Academy of History of Spain and universities and career history in Argentine and Latin America (Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, etc..), With legal support expressed in his research that the arguments are true Argentine and is fully legitimate claim. I recommend you read “British Policy in the Rio de la plata” by Fermin Chavez., Or “Open Veins of Latin America” by Eduardo Galeano.
Read and research the stories that are not Anglo-Saxon and will take a surprise. The story written by the victims of English colonialism and imperialism are true. And they are documented.
Note that the Nobel prizes for peace led by Perez Esquivel expressed support for the Argentine claims. In addition the Committee on Decolonization United Nations, in its annual resolutions clearly stated that this is a sovereignty dispute. Autedeterminacion not. Remember that 16 cases of colonialism in the world, 10 are caused by England (Malvinas, Gibraltar, etc.).
Other multilateral organizations such as OAS, CELAC, UNASUR, MERCOSUR expressed clearly in favor of Argentina calling for dialogue to Great Britain to abandon its colonialism and imperialism in the 21st century.
Thank you very much for your attention.
Face1354@hotmail.com
Guzz,
May 27th, 2012 - 04:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You do puddle on about all this solid official support from S.American Countries etc.
Do please advise me then - if it is indeed such official support- why to their relevant export departments use the name “Islas Falklands- or - Falkland Is.” on all relevant paperwork?
Raul,
How can there be dialogue between Britain and Argentina to end what you describe as “colonialism and imperialism”.
When Argentina would refuse to recognise or accept Independence for the Islands( this would of course mean british withdrawl from here which is what surely you want)? R
Regarding 1833 - would you like me to get you the list of names of all those settlers that remained - the names of those who subsequently intermarried with settlers from UK and whose bloodlines still run here- and the name and date of death of the last of those who stayed and is now buried in Stanley cemetery?
In return could you list the names of some of the Indigenous Patagonian and Pampas peoples who were slaughtered because they did not want to give up what had been their homelands for centuries ever since mankind started when the European Imperial Colonialists arrived in Argentina?
Islander
May 27th, 2012 - 04:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Because the only ones that are hung up on names are you, las Islas Malvinas in Spanish are the Falkland Islands in English... They also put London, and not Londres, on all paperwork to that city...
Material trade embargoes...absolutely. If China, Russia and Brazil said that they would never do business with any company in any way associated with oil exploration in the Falklands, then the exploration would stop.
May 27th, 2012 - 05:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not just the explorers, but the logistics companies, the rig companies, the second and third tier suppliers, the finance companies etc etc.
But they haven't....why is that?
Just an example of the Nothing, Nada, squat...a simple action that would show their “support”. Why don't they do it?
Because it might cost a few dollars....
Why don't they start some tit for tat trade issues with the UK, if their horror at 21st century colonialism is so great?
Because it's quite simple...they don't give a crap.
Raul
Of the sixteen cases of colonialism you describe, why is theist much shorter than in 1950? why has Britain happily seen independence in many of it's former colonies, and has excellent current relationships with most of them, through the Commonwealth. Why do the 16 remain?
See if you can figure it out?
Because the people who live there want the status quo...simple as that. If any of the territories voted for independence they could have it tomorrow. Australia and New Zealand are further away from the UK than the Falklands yet, the original British settlers have their independence, just as the Spanish and Italians do in Argentina.
The things that stops the same independence for the Falkland Islanders, the same right to self determination as those in Australia, new Zealand, Argentina, Canada, etc....are the Argentine bullying, and that fact they are happy to be an overseas territory.
Guzz thinks the whole world supports Argentina but cannot come up with a single economic,diplomatic or trade sanction to support his claim
Raul thinks the UN supports Argentina but cannot find a single resolution that supports his claim, and indeed quotes ones that support the “wishes of the islanders”
Quite a pair....!
Of course I can :)
May 27th, 2012 - 05:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay closed their ports for vessels carrying the flag of the Falklands as late as December last year :)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16280613
Oh no Guzz, they stop ships bearing the Falklands flag entering their ports...but allow the self same ships to enter with the red ensign showing.
May 27th, 2012 - 05:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I said material...something that makes a difference...like the trade embargoes I mentioned, or proper diplomatic escalation....
MATERIAL..not symbolic...come on Guzz, your embarrassing yourself now...this huge global support amounts to the banning of flag nobody uses, and allowing the same ships to enter with a red ensign..
Show me legal action, show me refusal to do business, show me something that actually means something, that might actually change the status quo...you can't.
“Guzz thinks the whole world supports Argentina but cannot come up with a single economic,diplomatic or trade sanction to support his claim”
May 27th, 2012 - 05:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I beg to differ, you said “not a single sanction”
The ban is much more than symbolic, it means the islanders have to dock under their true identity, as brits :)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4691471
That was “symbolic” as well :)
Guzz and Guzz or Guzz.
May 27th, 2012 - 06:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You talk a lot of rubbish.
Any counter argument is results in ”Post me proofs (links, not your personal convictions)“.
Some of your personal convictions:
”Problem with you is that, as long as children aren't getting shot at, you define it as “doing nothing”...“
”No need to pay them back, they filled their pockets already, not fulfilling their obligations. Hence, all is settled“
”Don't grab facts out of thin air because “you were there”, I know quite a few Argentinians who also “were there”, and they all disagreed on the fascist juntas invasion. Proove your facts, or stop spreading lies“
”Half of the population on the islands are military and you bloody keep the islanders blood dependant from a nation 12000 kilometres from there. You guys make the nazis proud...“
”Yoda
You are obsessed by this multiple identity thing. Try taking the right pills next time and don't project your schizophrenia on us..“
”You obviously think that if you repeat your lies again and again, they will finally end up being true... Got news for you, since the internet, it doesn't work like that anymore. Nowadays, you need to proove your facts.“
”Stop licking our butts, ynsere, it's clean enough and we got loads of yanquis and brits in line with eager tongues..“
A selection of the rubbish you post.
If people disagree with you - they are always wrong - usually you say ”stop spreading lies”.
You complain when people speculate as to you being a Uruguayan, yet you question other people's origin, by asking childish questions they have to answer. (how is your sail training going - have you achieved competent crew yet?)
You have an insane hatred of the English and also the the US.
Your posts often provide links to to articles that are often biased or dubious at the best.
How is the dredging of the Plate river canals ?
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Resources/2012/05/15/Uruguay-export-link-at-risk-from-Argentina/UPI-50011337116212/
Leiard :)
May 27th, 2012 - 06:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Only time I see you posting anything rational, it's only because you copy pasted my posts...
My sources are ALWAYS english newspapers or governmental sites, for the sole reason that you always miscredit anything that doesn't come from your mouths...
I don't speculate about ynsere's origin, fact is, I'm quite sure she's not of Uruguayan origin, which doesn't mean she can be Uruguayan...
I don't hate English people, I only dislike a few in these threads, as I told briton, don't blame Britain for your flaws :)
Guzz
May 27th, 2012 - 06:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The islanders having to dock as British (which is what they are and proud to be), how is this anything other than symbolic. Has it cost Brazil, Uruguay, the Islanders or the UK a single dollar in lost trade, revenue or hassle? No.
In fact Uruguay is actively pursuing greater trade with the Islanders.
I listed a few of the examples of trade and economic sanctions open to the big countries, but none of the have done 0.0001% of them, and none of them include the murdering of children as per your previous drivel.
Like I said. Argentina have no real support, because anyone who looks closely can see they have no claim. The “dispute” rather than any kind of justice is used by some to further their trade or political aspirations (I.e China want a tit for tat with respect to Taiwan), but nobody has ever actually “done” anything to support Argentina.
The fact your “best” examples are so pathetic, kind of highlights my point.
Uruguay came up with the idea to block Falklands ships from our ports, I don't fully understand how you see it as an action of “actively pursuing greater trade with the islanders”...
May 27th, 2012 - 06:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The murdering of children was when you aided big brother on your illegal odyssey to the mid east...
Guzz
May 27th, 2012 - 06:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I believe mercopress is one of your approved sources
http://en.mercopress.com/2012/03/30/uruguay-against-any-falklands-blockade-supports-trade-with-the-islands
You see, lots of noise, talk, symbolic support of Argentina. The words...
The actions however, the trade, the material things....say something different.
I would be much more worried if it were the other way round.
p.S.
Paraguay banning ships...LOL...funny as hell that symbolism
Monkeymagic
May 27th, 2012 - 06:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Did you actually read your source?
“Supporting any form of blockade would be a violation of the Malvinas inhabitants’ human rights and the same we say with Cuba, we repeat in this case” said Almagro.
Being against a blockade is not entirely the same as to “actively pursuade greater trade with the islanders” :)
Still it was Uruguay's idea to close the ports
And Paraguay has access to the Atlantic, I don't see what's funny about that...
Guzz
May 27th, 2012 - 06:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A typical non response.
Leiard
May 27th, 2012 - 06:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Your only (non)questions in whole that post was how my studying was going, and some pointless drivel about Rio de la Plata...
Told you Leiard, you set the standards and the tone, I merely respond to it...
Guzz
May 27th, 2012 - 07:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why would you send a trade delegation to the islands if you were not actively pursuing trade? For a vacation?
Poor Guzz. In a dispute that has lasted decades he is unable to come up with a single solitary action by any country other than Argentina that is anything other than symbolic, whilst simultaneously the same countries are actually “doing” the opposite.
Poor, poor Guzz...even Uruguay...
Monkeymagic
May 27th, 2012 - 07:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Poor, poor Guzz is getting richer, while rich, rich Monkeymagic is getting poorer... Quite ironic, don't you think? :)
In 1850 Argentina had all but forgotten about the Falkland Islands and signed a treaty* legally dropping its claim to the islands.
May 27th, 2012 - 07:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It was only in the 1950's that Peron started to fill Argentine minds with propaganda and a twisted view of history that the 'Malvinas is ours' cry materialised.
Treaty: A treaty is an express agreement within international law either by sovereign states or international organisation. Treaties can be compared to cotracts and a party to either that fails to lice up to their obligations can be held liable under interbational law.
*The treaty signed by Argentina and Great Britain in 1850 is called: 'Convention between Great Britain and the Argentine Confederation, for the Settlement of Existing Differences and the Re-Establishment of Friendship.”
The Falkland Islands legally belong to Great Britain. End...
There are two schools of thought in Uruguay: that of most top members of the government, who for some unknown reason have been shamelessly taking orders from Argentina for many months, and that of the opposition and population in general, which if not pro-British and pro-Falklands is at least anti-Argentina, for a number of very valid reasons. Uruguay is a democracy, and citizens are allowed to hold and express ideas not in line with government announcements. Guzz is clearly a non-Uruguayan whose job it it to try and discredit the anti-Argentine feelings of a clear majority of ordinary Uruguayans. Please ignore him.
May 27th, 2012 - 07:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So, ynsere, in your head, the population of Uruguay is anti-Argentine, while the government is not. At the same time, the people agreeing with the government are clearly not Uruguayans... What???
May 27th, 2012 - 07:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm amazed the same population you are talking about voted a Tupamaro for Presdident... Or maybe it was those non-Uruguayans...
Guzz
May 27th, 2012 - 07:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0GDP per capita in the UK is more than twice what it is in Uruaguay. With a much larger population, that is quite a difference.
Interesting many of the oppressed colonies have some of the highest GDP per ca it's in the world.
Falklands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, Cayman Islands,...all right near the top of the list.
Wait for 2016....FIs will sail past Lichenstein and Qatar at the top.
Monkeymagic
May 27th, 2012 - 07:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Might be, now check your debt per capita
When you are done, take your GDP per capita, and subtract the debt per capita.
Do the same with Uruguay's GDP and debt per capita.
Realize you are living on borrowed money :)
Guzz
May 27th, 2012 - 07:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Indeed, I am living on borrowed money. I have a mortgage.
I didn't realise that I had to subtract the whole amount due on my mortgage from my annual income to give my net value (which is in effect what your calculation would do)
I thought, that what I had to do was take the amount serviceable on the mortgage within the given year from the annual income to get whether it was affordable or not.
I see that your understanding of economics is as poor as your understanding of FI politics.
If you wanted to do what you are suggesting you would have to get the total asset worth of a country (not the GDP) and subtract the total debt.
Jeez....you are a thickie aren't you.
I would agree with you if your debt was staying the same, but in your comparison, it would be like you taking a new loan every year, thus owing more and more money each and every year :)
May 27th, 2012 - 07:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Pay your debts :)
@28 Sorry? What are all these “resolutions” you are quoting? Are these from any current recognised entity? I think not. From memory wasn't that some old thing called the UN? If you check out your colleagues (e.g. Maxie or Maxine or Maximily), you will find that treaties can't continue for more than 30-40 years. So that UN crap is all over. WE can do what WE like. WE have bigger guns, and missiles, and bombs than you. Now what?
May 27th, 2012 - 08:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@41 Yep, Uruguay got its independence in 1828. Fostered by the United Kingdom. Did you miss mentioning that?
@43 Sh*te for brains. No more need be said.
@45 Bigger sh*te for brains. No legal place such as “argentina” until late 19th century. No legal government. No constitution. Just gangsters. Not changed, has it?
@61 So. 13 -v- 2. No problem. What are your 13 “countries” going to do with the fried faces, eyeballs, arms, legs and melting bodies? Dream on, loser!
@64 I remember Spain taking a position. It wasn't that they couldn't support argieland. Don't recall the Eyeties taking a stance. Too busy shagging 20-year old prostitutes.
@76 So glad that you've finally given up and descended into your proper level of stupidity. “Malvinas” is a bastardisation of “La Malouines”. A French word referring to the French of St Malo. And this equates to “Falkland Islands”, how? Dripweed!
@93 Poor Guzzle. Desperately trying to play both ends against the middle. Bottom line. Sooner or later, argieland is going to step over a line. People who matter (Falkland Islands and Britain) are going to demand the argieland is placed in a position where it cannot do the same again. Uruguay may have to disappear if it is not on the right “side”. Your choice, asshole.
If you silly argie CFK bloggers insist on burning your candle at both ends,
May 27th, 2012 - 08:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We suggest you don’t hold the middle bit with your fingers,
You are likely to get burnt.
.
Conqueror!!
May 27th, 2012 - 08:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I got only one word for you: Myotonic :)
In truth, there are no penguins in the Falklands, people are just seeing Conqueror chasing sheep with his pants down his knees, creating that pace that makes people confuse him for a penguin :)
GUZZ, Raul, Marcus.
May 27th, 2012 - 08:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Think about it...
UN resolution 2065 states clearly that the FI could become an independent nation if they so choose. An independent nation is the permanent solution the UN wants.
http://www.falklands.info/history/resolution2065.html
So tell me a instance when the Falkland Islanders would choose to become part of Argentina instead of becoming an independent nation?
I can't think of one. They are already 95% independent and are self-sufficient and self-governing. They only rely on the UK for defence.
So the future of the FI is pretty clear, BOT for the time being, then an independent nation at some point in the future.
Honoria
I know the FI are happy as a BOT but Britain would still protect an independent FI, we would keep the military base and troops. I don't think our countries relationship would change much at all.
The big change is Argentina would shut up; they would no longer have a sovereignty claim. After a few years they will forget about you and annoy someone else.
I would be fine with the Falklands/Malvinas being independent, but as long as British troops are there, I wouldn't buy that farce anymore than I buy the self-governing farce...
May 27th, 2012 - 09:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0GUzz 76- what utter crap you come up with when you cannot answer a question!!
May 27th, 2012 - 09:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Of course London is Londres in Spanish and UK is Reinido Unido -BUT
-Uruguay is the same in both languages as there is NO TRANSLATION.
Argentina and Chile are just 2 other examples where there is NO TRANSLATION.
Islas Malvinas - in English becomes Malvinas Islands - there is NO TRANSLATION for Malvinas!!
Falkland Islands in English becomes Islas Falklands - because there is NO TRANSLATION for Falklands!!!
When you are defeated you do come up with them!!
But at least you reply - more than Raul does when he is in the wrong and knows it!
Islander
May 27th, 2012 - 09:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0With that logic, you are claiming Germany... It's Deutchland...
And the whole world would be claiming Finland, it's Soumi...
Guzz, you are not a Uruguayan., you're just paid to say that Uruguay is like Argentina, which is untrue. Allow me to explain that in Uruguay most people vote for presidential candidates and political parties on the basis of campaign promises, but we are allowed to change our minds at a later stage, for whatever reason. We are even allowed to agree with some things the government does, but not with others. It's called democracy and we're proud of it.
May 27th, 2012 - 09:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Uruguay is NOT like Argentina
May 27th, 2012 - 09:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Case closed :)
Raul @74,
May 27th, 2012 - 10:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't understand. When Darwin visited the islands, he went hunting wild cattle with gauchos. Were these British gauchos? If the population was expelled, why did a ship hired by Vernet return to the islands, then leave for Buenos Aires with a cargo of produce? Who was hunting the cattle if the inhabitants had been expelled? Since the “Clio” left no British settlers on the islands, who was there?
I'm trying to restrict this particular little discussion to whether not any expulsion took place. You are trying to convince me that the Argentine cause overall is just. Perhaps it is, but nowhere have I found evidence to back up the expulsion claim. I can't ignore Vernet's and Darwin's accounts, so please explain to me how you interpret them as evidence the population was expelled.
Islander
May 27th, 2012 - 10:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't be like you say Raul is and answer now, ARE you claiming Deutchland for calling it Germany? Are we all claiming Suomi for calling it Finland(ia)?
Mayhap you believe the translation for Suomi is indeed Finland :)
Guzz- Of course Deutschland is Germany in English- and Alemania in Spanish! The irrefutable point is that Falkland Islands in Spanish translates as Islas Falklands - and Islas Malvinas in English becomes Malvinas Islands!!
May 27th, 2012 - 11:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Neither name has a transaltion in the other language - they are totally Different!
Ask the Germans - they call us the Islen Falkland!!
So sorry but - when Chilean and Uruguyan Govt Departments call us the Islas Falkland - that is because that is our correct name in Spanish!
That is why the UN - in English - and several other internation bodies - in English - use the title Falklands/Mavinas.
Malvinas is Argentina,s name - it is NOT a translation into Spanish of the English name.
How many links do you want me to post of Pepe Mujica (President of Uruguay) calling the islands “Islas Malvinas”?
May 27th, 2012 - 11:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Islas Malvinas is just as little a translation for Falkland Islands as Germany is for Deutschland. It's the Spanish name for the islands, just as Germany is the English name for Deutschland... Check what the Spaniards call the islands...
110 Guzz:
May 28th, 2012 - 12:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0Could be that for most of Hispanofonia, one would say “Malvinas” but Falkland Islanders of Chilean origin appear to prefer “Islas Falklands”.
Reference:
“Olvídenlo, la gente de Falklands quiere ser británica”
“Estas son las islas Falklands, yo no vivo en Puerto Argentino, se llama Port Stanley, ya está todo definido y decidido”:
http://www.a24.com/politica/Olvidenlo-la-gente-de-Falklands-quiere-ser-britanica-20120305-920049.html
Guzz, my point exactly- as you say at 110- Islas Malvinas is the Spanish Name - so if Ur and Chile both officiallly support Argentina,s claim then it logically follows that they would use the Spanish name same as Argentina does.
May 28th, 2012 - 12:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0BUT their relevant Govt depts, when they fill in standard INTERNATIONAL MULTILIGUAL forms - they use the name Falklands - and of course say Islas instead of Islands because that is indeed the spanish translation.
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May 28th, 2012 - 01:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0That some Chilean chooses to call the islands Falklands in Spanish doesn't change the Spanish name for them. Would be like a French guy telling a Spaniard that he from now on calls Deutchland for Germany instead of Alemania (me being diplomatic).
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No SA nationofficial calls the islands for Falklands, except when they are talking English (which doesn't happen that often). Proove me wrong.
It has naught to do with claims, it has something to do with language, if you are speaking Spanish, you call the islands by their name, Islas Malvinas. If you are speaking English, you also call them by their name, Falkland Islands.
You don't call Germany Germany in Spanish, as well as you don't call it Alemania in English. Still both terms are correct.
I understand it tricky to grasp, but as with everything, it makes sense when you do...
Guzz, correct- why would folks in a Chilean or Ur Govt dept talk and write in anything other than SPANISH when they are dealing with a Chilean or Uruguyan Exporter and completing the standard multilingual International export documentation where the only thing they type onto the form is the Address of the Importer and the Country name, and description of the goods and value.
May 28th, 2012 - 02:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Those folks have no idea who the importer this end is- they never meet. But they fill in the forms in SPANISH where they are describing the goods- yes they write all that in SPANISH - and then use the words Islas Falklands.
I very much doubt that those officials speak English anyway - no need for them to, they deal with Exports - not Imports where they would indeed be coming across documents from English speaking countries.
So, because of some totally unknown people in some desk someplace puts Islas Falklands on packages to the island, it means... what, exactly???
May 28th, 2012 - 02:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0I tell you what it means, it means he got it all wrong and is mixing two languages, like calling the UK Reino United, or United Reino....
“Falkland” + word for “island” in any of the EU languages is official EU lexicon for Falkland Islands, except in Spanish, where it is Islas Malvinas (Falkand). No matter whether Portuguese (Ilhas Falkland) or Polish (Falklandy).
May 28th, 2012 - 03:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Reference:
Council Decision of 27 November 2001 on the association of the overseas countries and territories with the European Community (“Overseas Association Decision”), ANNEX I A LIST OF THE COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES (OCTs) REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 1:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX%3A32001D0822%3AEN%3ANOT
No Guzz, not “written on some packages” - we are talking about Official Documents that bear the Coat of Arms of the Chilean or Uruguyan relevant Govt Departments. Documents that are signed and stamped by officials of those Governments.
May 28th, 2012 - 03:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Are those documents written in English?
May 28th, 2012 - 07:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Having in mind that “you” are so sensitive about the naming, it does make sense that anyone that sends anything to the islands, in whatever language, writes the name of the islands in English. Elsewhise they risk being discarted before the rest of the document even is read to its end...
Especially if its about exports, loosing money for someones obsession for names is quite... dramatic...
@118 http://www.asiapacificms.com/articles/argentine_sovereignty/falklands_map_mid.jpg The map was drawn by the French cartographer Etienne André Philippe de Pretot in the late 1760s, and first appeared in the 1771 edition of the explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville’s book Voyages. The heading says in old French: “Carte des Iles Malouines, Nommées par les Anglois Iles Falkland,” or “Map of the Malouines Islands which the English call the Falkland Islands.” Proving that the English/British had more of the Islands than the French. (See the settlements marked B). It is also the case that the French only sold their settlement (marked A) to the Spanish. They knew they had no “right” to sell the land or the sovereignty. Subsequently, the Spanish tried to push the British off and got asked whether they wanted a war. Spain capitulated, returned seized items and paid compensation. Thus, Spain recognised Britain's rights. Thus, argies were never more than trespassers.
May 28th, 2012 - 11:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0119
May 28th, 2012 - 12:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Annd that is why the Spanish name for the islands isn't Islas Malvinas?
Nobody is discussing the origin of the name, it is STILL Islas Malvinas in Spanish, Falkland Islands in English...
Why do British troops, 300 miles from Argentina bother you,
May 28th, 2012 - 12:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How do they effect, you,
Do they interfere with you in any way what so ever,
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And as an exception, if you feel all brutish military should remain in the UK,
Does this then not make you a hypercrit, as Argentina has argentine military aboard, [does she not]
The fact is, you lot are just anti British full stop,
After all, we British have at least 4 foreign armies within 300 miles of the UK, and we are not offended.
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May 28th, 2012 - 01:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The fact that I dislike you(r ideas) doesn't mean I dislike Britain as a whole. Again, don't blame Britain for your flaws.
I dislike every military, including the Uruguayan, and I don't want them near me at all. Especially invasive warmonkeys such as your own...
Then it seems you are far to fussy, and don’t really know what you want,
May 28th, 2012 - 01:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If you do things in order, then you have 3 militaries to get rid off, before you even get to the Atlantic waters,,, let alone the Falklands,
So anti British ,,is this not .
Pure and simple,
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@122 - Guzz.
May 28th, 2012 - 01:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Your military is a joke, who are more of a danger to the people they're supposed to protect, than anyone else. That's why you're afraid of them.
The British military are there to protect British people and British territory from people, such as yourself. British people are not afraid of our military, as our military have honour and follow the rule of law.
The only invasive warmonkeys (as you put it) in South America are the Argentines. The Falkland Islands are 300miles away from the sub-continent of South America, and the forces there are purely defensive.
So, Guzz, my 'brave' friend. The only people who should worry you are the Argentinians, because if a war does happen, they'll be the ones to start it. The British, conversely, will be the ones to finish it, probably for good this time so we don't end up in the same situation 30yrs from now.
, 122 Guzz
May 28th, 2012 - 01:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are
1872 km
Or
1163 miles
From the Falklands,
And you are in fact closer to
Brazil , argentina , Chile , Bolivia , Peru , and Paraguay
So it has to be purly anti British, despite you denials ,
As we are more than a THOUSAND miles away from you,
We are no danger to your country, and never have been,
am i not truthfull.
briton
May 28th, 2012 - 01:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm a human being, Latin American and Uruguayan, in that order.
I have far to many friends in Britain to allow myself to be anti British.
Britain is a wonderful country, full of stunning achievement throughout history. Just take a look at the railways, the tube and the canal systems throughout the country. Marvelous piece of engineering, truly.
Furthermore, they have contributed like few in areas such as physics and mathematics, to name some.
You might want to take credit for all of the above mentioned, but fact is, your generation have had nothing to do with any of it, and nowadays you (read government, not people) have failed to bring much but misery to the world. Time changes and the tables turns, but never ever blaim your flaws on Britain as a whole.
The Argentinian's can cry as loud as they like. The fact is that they have no legal rights to the Falkland Islands.
May 28th, 2012 - 04:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Guzz is not a Uruguayan. Don't believe a word he says. Judging from the number of posts he's made recently (not only on this thread) he's a full time troll, probably in Argentine pay. But judging from the varying quality of his English, his copy corrector is only part time.
May 28th, 2012 - 04:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Long live the Falklands and long live Uruguay, both free of Argentine interference and threats.
ynsere
May 28th, 2012 - 04:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do you have ANY opinoins other than that I would be someone else than I am?
Your own President supports the Argentinian claim, should you be Uruguayan. Is it really that far off to think that most of the Uruguayans agree with him, and not with you? We elected him, you, we have to swallow...
77 Monkeymagic
May 28th, 2012 - 05:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why Britain has been blessed independence in many former colonies, and has excellent existing relationships with most of them, through the Commonwealth. Why still the 16?
I asked the countries that became independent from the UK? Cost them horrors and mass genocide made by Great Britain. Just look at the massacres made on five continents to notice. Watch the movie Ghandi to see genocide English. They have eyes and not see, have ears and do not want to hear. Unfortunately 500 years of history in Britain is the inventor of colonialism and imperialism. Automatically shown in the decolonization committee of the UN. Of 16 cases of colonialism that is trying the commission. 10 cases for the UK including the Falklands and Gibraltar among others ... Do not say anything about it? Becomes clear who the colonialist and imperialist ...
On balance. England in the course of its history, only 500 years, has committed genocide in the five continents of the world and is currently making humanitarian bombing civilians in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.
It has nothing to envy to Nazi Germany and has far surpassed. Along with the U.S. are the shame of the world and Europe in crisis.
Raul believes that the UN supports Argentina, but can not find a single resolution that supports your claim, and cites the fact that support the ”wishes of the islanders'
Why lie so much?
Read the resolution 2065. (XX) of 1965, ratified by later resolutions 1973 (3160, XXVIII) 1976 (31/49), 1982 (37/9), 1983 (38/12), 1984 (39/6), 1985 (40 / 21), 1986 (41/40), 1987 (42/19) and 1988 (43/25). They all declare the existence of a sovereignty dispute. No self-determination.
In addition, every year, the Committee finds UN decolonization resolution using the criteria of Resolution 2065 of 1965, clearly states that the sovereignty dispute. NO self-determination
@ 130 -Raul.
May 28th, 2012 - 06:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You obviously don't understand the way the UN works.
None of these resolutions backed Argentina. They just suggested talks between Britain and Argentina. These talks were underway, when in 1982 Argentina, ignoring all UN resolutions, invaded. That invasion INVALIDATED all previous UN resolutions.
Not only that, Argentina ignored 2 UN resolutions asking them to remove their military from the islands. So that shows just how much Argentina respects UN resolutions.
So no, none of those resolutions apply anymore as Argentina crapped all over them. And if Argentina really wants to talk, they have to talk to the Falkland Island Government, not the British government.
But Argentina won't do that will they? Because then you'd have to admit to the world that the people of the Falklands exist.
Guzz - In Uruguay we're allowed to disagree with the President. We're allowed to disagree with the whole gov't. We're allowed to agree with some things and disagree with others. We're allowed to change our minds about a President we voted for but proves useless. Obviously, unlike the historical Tupamaros, we're going to have to put up with that government until the end of its legal mandate. (MLN-T took up arms against a democratic government). In my own case, for example, I agree with the current government's anti-big tobacco stance and disagree with its obsequiousness to Argentina. Do you read the readers' forums of El Observador, El Paìs, Ultimas Noticias, even La República? How many are pro-Argentine? Count them and let me know. Perhaps 10-15%?
May 28th, 2012 - 07:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That said, I still think you're a paid troll (or perhaps a “ni-ni”, but not being Uruguayan you wouldn't undertsand).
Raul and Marcus
May 28th, 2012 - 07:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Can you please read my post @101 and respond with your views. As I am interested in the Argentinian perspective on this matter.
Thanks in advance for your reply.
@130 Raul
May 28th, 2012 - 07:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Every member of the 16 'overseas territories' wants to remain British. Simple.
In 1850 Great Britain and Argentina signed a legally binding agreement 'For the settlement of existing differences and the re-establishment of friendship.'
Argentina therefore has no legal claims to the Falkland Islands. It was only in the 1950s that Peron twisted historical facts and started crying 'the Malvinas are Argentinian' that the current 'problems' have existed.
Argentinian politicians would do better to concentrate on their economy and the welfare of their people rather than using the 'Malvinas' excuse to side-track their people.
130 Raul
May 28th, 2012 - 09:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are without doubt, a CFK follower to the grave, and very anti British,
All rubbish,
If you had your way, Great Britain would be blamed for everything, from the last ice age, to invading the Falklands and holding 3,000 innocent people hostage,
You are the total myth writer,
You and guss, make it totally anti British,
Full stop
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Raul, I am interested in your response to my post at 107. I can respect your view that the islands should be Argentine and perhaps, on some basis, that claim is just. But I still don't understand how you claim the Argentines were expelled in 1833 when there is so much evidence to the contrary. I got my evidence from a British paper. However, I don't just believe it when the authors says “they were not expelled”. What I believe is the evidence he gives to support this. The paper may be biased, but the evidence is not, unless the authors invented it or distorted it.
May 28th, 2012 - 10:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0For the British, has Britain ever said it will support the islanders' right to self-determination of they choose to be something other than a BOT? Seems to me there's always a little caveat in their statements of support.
136 Steve_L
May 28th, 2012 - 11:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0has Britain ever said it will support the islanders' right to self-determination of they choose to be something other than a BOT?
you should be aware of this by now,
the British government fully supports the Falkland islanders to self determination,
1, if they with the remain
2, if they with to be independent,
3, if they wish to be Argentinean,
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Its as simple and factual as that,
At this moment in time, the Falklanders have chosen to remain British,
In the future, they have indicated, that they would / may like independence,
But they have mad it perfectly clear to the rest of the world,
That they have no wish to be Argentinean,
Does that answer your question?
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Raul (or Guzz, for a less hot-headed opinion) - what is the historical basis of Argentina's claim to S.Georgia, etc? Considering that Spain never had a claim to these islands and legally could not have since they fall into the territory allotted to Portugal under the Treaty of Toredessilas. Is it not true that Argentina first make this claim around 1940? Why did they wait so long?
May 28th, 2012 - 11:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0ynsere
May 29th, 2012 - 06:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0A democratic government, that killed its own people... Check our history, in 1968, your democratic government sent the police on its own people, where Liber Arce was shot and killed. The 1st (but surely not the last) civilian victim of the “democratic” government.
Liber Arce, his name didn't help your cause, did it?
Don't throw the Uruguayan media at me, it's not like they ever were on Frente Amplios side, much less Kirchners. You as well as me knows that this isn't about borders, it's merely ideological. It's not pro-Argentina, it's pro-socialism.
And your named newspapers never had any good relation to socialism. Try Brecha or late Mate Amargo for that...
Ni-ni... What, “ni uno, ni otro”? ;)
Try this, I think you are a mix of an animal and a boardgame... Lobo ludo :)
Guzz - Your reply proves once again you're not a Uruguayan. If you don't know what a ni-ni is, you can't be. Who's paying you to pretend you are? Why are you lying? Your version of history is the official Frente Amplio myth, disputed by half a dozen excellent authors. But I'm not here to talk about Uruguayan history: what I want is to see the Islanders' rights respected by Argentina.
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ynsere
May 29th, 2012 - 12:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You belong to el Partido Rosado. I don't understand why you are so upset with our government. You are very much included in the dialogue and no one is rejecting your ideas as bloc politics. You need to understand though, that you are not in power any more and the majority of this country does not think like you. We are not paid to think like we think, the truth is more that you think like you think in order to get paid...
180 years in charge and look where you brought the country, results of your politics climaxing in 2002.
You have no credibility whatsoever in our nation, you have filled your own pockets for almost 2 centuries, and now you point fingers at us and tell us we do this or that for money.
We are not like you, we don't live to collect paper
Guzz - Anothing thing you don't know about Uruguay is that our votes are secret! It's none of your business, or anyone else's, which party I voted for in the past, or who I'm going to vote for in the future. Ordinary Uruguayans do not make friends or enemies on account of party politics, although Presidential candidates and their servants make (often false) promises and criticise each other as in any real democracy.
May 29th, 2012 - 06:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are not Uruguayan. Stop pretending. Somebody's given you an order to project the image that ordinary Uruguayans support Argentine foreign policy.
We do not! Long live the Falklands.
@skare,@ynsere,36 Ms.Briton
May 29th, 2012 - 07:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This UK PM feel the loss of 255 soldiers and insists in maintaining diplomatic relations with Argentina? For what?...
@126 Guzz (#)
Take a look at the best light rail in the world....made in Japan and China...
134 British Bob
May 29th, 2012 - 07:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Each member of 'overseas territories of the 16 wants to remain British. Simple.
With all the respect you deserve, with that answer, you are demonstrating that function completely ignores and the Resolutions of the Committee on Decolonization United Nations is precisely to eliminate colonialism and imperialism English and other colonial powers. In the specific case of the Falklands, please consider resolution 2065 (XX) of 1965, ratified by later resolutions 1973 (3160, XXVIII) 1976 (31/49), 1982 (37/9), 1983 (38 / 12), 1984 (39/6), 1985 (40/21), 1986 (41/40), 1987 (42/19) and 1988 (43/25). They all declare the existence of a sovereignty dispute as resolution 2065 (XX) and self-determination ..
In addition, every year, the Committee finds UN decolonization resolution using the criteria of Resolution 2065 of 1965, clearly states that the sovereignty dispute. NO self-determination
In 1850 Britain and Argentina signed a legally binding agreement ......
Argentina never give up the sovereignty of the Falklands. Read the book “British Policy in the Rio de la Plata” by Manuel Galvez. There clearly documents the context and alcanses of that agreement. Learn all sources Argentinas.
It was not until the 1950 Peron twisting historical facts and began to mourn “the Malvinas are Argentine” that the current 'problems' have been.
Do not get me wrong, I say not with evil intent, with all respect to you, your answer is again proving that you do not know in depth the conflict of sovereignty of the Falkland Islands and a total lack of Peronism. The claim of sovereignty of Malvinas transcends and is prior to Peron.
British politicians would do well to focus on its economy, since so bad as Greece. Spain and Italy, can not escape the crisis in Europe. You would do well to focus on world peace and not use the excuse of maintaining self-determination of peoples and kill civilians with humanitarian bombings as it was in Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Thank you very much
We have already reported on other occasions and made known my opinion. I think most of the English people have the same deep feeling. Peace, dialogue and Nonviolence.
May 29th, 2012 - 08:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This conflict is not resolved with resentment and revanchism. Resolved to peace and dialogue Why so hateful? Why do you hate both CFK?.
Claims expressed as 99.99% of all political parties and religious beliefs in Argentina and Latin America
Remind the Nobel Peace prize, amnesty International UK, U.S. Luther King or Perez Esquivel of Argentina in their struggle for human rights against military dictatorship and the demands of dialogue in the Falklands conflict. “There are no roads to peace, peace is the way.”
John Lennon phrases that apply to British aggression in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya.
“Give peace a chance to” ..... “I can not believe I condecoren. I thought it was necessary to drive tanks and win wars. ”....“ If we take the power, would have the task of cleaning the bourgeoisie and keeping people in a revolutionary state of mind. ”
Lennon returned his medal Member of the Order of the British Empire in September 1969, through a letter addressed to his own Queen of England and sent to St. James Palace in London. The musician took this decision by the UK involvement in the Biafran war of secession, by the British Government's support to the U.S. invasion of Vietnam and the censorship of his song 'Cold Turkey', because references to including drugs.
”Your Majesty, I am returning my MBE (acronym for which knows the logo) as a protest against Britain's involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra issue, against our support for the U.S. in Vietnam and against falling 'Cold Turkey' on the music charts. With love, John Lennon, ”reads the letter he wrote the music to the queen, as reported by 'Music News' collected by otr / press. Now, the Medal of the Order of the British Empire, could end up in a museum as fans demand musician.
If John is really a true revolutionary of peace and nonviolence.
135 British
May 29th, 2012 - 09:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The answer for 135 is in the former British: 146 raul2
136 Steve_L
Sorry for the delay in reply.
Regarding your question that the Argentines were expelled in 1833 and Britain occupied the islands by force in 1833, expelled the original population and not allow its return, it is totally true.
There are numerous published literature that supports these facts. I recommend others to read “Life of Juan Manuel de Rosas” written by Manuel Galvez. You
I recommend the following link and find the answer.
http://www.cuestionmalvinas.gob.ar/modules.php?name=Paginas&op=_posicion_argentina
Face1354@hotmail.com
thank you very much
You wont except nothing less that total capitulation of great Britain, to argentina,
May 29th, 2012 - 10:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You frankly like in cuckoo land,
It will never happen,
What might happen?
Is argentina will be destroyed by her very own corrupt leaders, and CFK will certainly see to that .
You want / demand everything that is not yours .
And you are quiet happy and willing to see the free world go to conflict, to get your own way,
To you, democracy is just a hypocrite word for do gooders and fools.
You have learned nothing, but nothing since 1982,
@147 if true deporting illegal immigration is legal and certainly a lot simpler back then
May 29th, 2012 - 10:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0also removing squatters is legal to unless u conciser 33 people on an island a blossoming colony?
lmao
apparently they spend hour after hour, searching for any little bits and pieces to throw us at us, to try and legitimise there none existent claim,
May 29th, 2012 - 10:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They know, we know, the whole bloody world knows all agreements before 1850, were superseded after the agreement of 1850,
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But they refuse to except this, and insist on the 1833 year ??
apparently this give them a claim, ,
CFK .
She makes her own rules and her own agreements,
Signed by herself, and that’s the end of it,
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Meanwhile in real world, they actually have more of a claim to Spain, than anything else ??
OK, one last attempt, then I'll leave this topic alone - I promise.
May 30th, 2012 - 01:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0I say: “The Argentines were not expelled because Darwin's and Vernet's records say this...”
You reply: “They were expelled because my government and my historians tell me that they were.”
I gave you evidence to show that there were people in the islands AFTER the “Clio” supposedly expelled them. You give me no evidence, you just repeat your government's position, that they were expelled and were not allowed to return.
I will look for an opportunity to read Manuel Galvez's book, but until that time, can you supply any evidence, either quotes from the book or from your memory, that support your statements?
@151 Steve_L:
May 30th, 2012 - 07:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Actually, the evidence that Louis Vernet's settlement was not expelled, that only the military garrison (including the wives and children of the soldiers) were expelled by Captain Onslow is stronger than you state. In addition to Darwin's and Vernet's records, the log book of the ARA Sarandi also confirms that only two couples (four adults and zero children) from Vernet's settlement chose to leave and that all the other settlers stayed.
All of the secondary sources (including Manuel Galvez) which claim that settlers were evicted seem to point, directly or indirectly, back to Manuel Moreno's 1833 exaggerated protest to the British government. Whether Moreno accidentally misinterpreted an ambiguous report or deliberately lied is immaterial and we have no evidence either way. Galvez may have innocently believed that Moreno's exaggerated protest was a reliable source. It is certain though that Moreno's claim that civilian settlers were evicted was false.
For example, Gregoria Parry and Antonina Roxa Carmelia were among Vernet's settlers who continued to live in the Falklands for decades, one of them into the 1870s.
For example, Gregoria Parry and Antonina Roxa Carmelia were among Vernet's settlers who continued to live in the Falklands for decades, one of them into the 1870s
May 30th, 2012 - 11:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Really? Did onslow asked them if they wanted the Argentine flag,or keep the language?
No Argentine settlers were allowed to buy land......
Why uk declined to go to a court of Justice to settle the issue when invited by Argentina in 1884 and at least 5 times after?
Why UN got 10 res,declaring a colonial issue in MAlvinas? Why 30 C-24 says otherwise every year?Why UNASUR,Mercosur and 6 Nobel laureated says uk has to negotiate?
Really the brits in this forum are mentally RETARD!
Why is Argentina and why are Argentines so obsessed with “re-gaining” their supposedly beloved Malvinas when most of rural Argentina is an under-utilised wasteland? I think it speaks volumes for the immaturity of Argentines that they should expend so much emotional energy on some cold barren islands which few would ever bother visit or even think about, were they not “occupied” by Britain. Even fewer would voluntarily want to live there without generous government subsidies. When I recently crossed the Parana River by ferry from Asuncion to the typically scruffy Argentine town of Clorinda I was greeted by a huge “Las Malvinas son Argentinas” sign, thousands of kilometres from the islands in question. In the litter and dog turd-strewn (virtual shanty town) of “Puerto Iguassu”, which in any half-decent country would be a sparking showplace since it is the hosting venue for Argentina's biggest attraction, many tourists visit the “Three Frontiers” where Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay meet. Here, thousands of km from the islands in question, they are met by yet another scruffily unkempt and partly broken “Malvinas son Argentinas” monument. Throughout the length and breadth of Argentina almost every town has its own Malvinas Monument, all of them approved no doubt by self-serving politicians. Most of these monuments have been built since 1982 and many are in a poor state of repair. What sort of signal does that send? If the Argies cannot decently maintain their own public monuments and parks, etc (and largely speaking they cant) what would become of the neat and tidy Falklands under their corrupt misrule? With a few rare exceptions you only need visit almost anywhere in Argentina to know the answer to my question.
May 30th, 2012 - 12:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@153: Malvinero1:
May 30th, 2012 - 12:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Parry and Carmelia were not asked either by Captain Pinedo (when Argentine military forces first landed in the Falklands in October 1832) or by Captain Onslow (when British military forces returned in January 1833) which flag they preferred. Vernet, a French national born in what is now Germany, had operated his settlement with permission from both Argentina and Britain, though he repeatedly indicated a preference for British sovereignty. Starting in 1833, Parry, Carmelia, and all other settlers were free to speak any language of their choosing. The British did not impose English on the settlers.
As for why Argentina has any political support for their claims, anti-colonialism plays very well politically, and for good reason. To the extent that the Constitution of the Falkland Islands fall short of complete self-government (which it still does, despite progress), Argentina will be able to get political play from their anti-colonialist argument. As I've written here before, colonialist arrangements are indefensible in the 21st century. If the Falkland Islanders want off the UN C24's list of non self-governing territories, they need to adopt a Constitution which strikes the remaining vestigial colonialist arrangements and limits the appointed Governor, in law, to the areas of defense and foreign affairs over which he exercises anything more than ceremonial duties, in practice. In other words, the current Constitution of the Falkland Islands grants powers to the appointed Governor that no 21st century Governor would ever exercise. Only when those powers have been officially transferred from the London-appointed Governor to the Falklands-elected Legislative Assembly and Falklands-elected Executive Council can the UN C24 take the Falkland Islands off the list of non self-governing territories. Until that happens, Argentina has a political case, but still no case in international law.
Do Argentines have the vision or maturity to think about the consequences of an Argentine take-over? If Argentina were to “regain” the islands they would immediately attempt to swamp the British-originated populace by dumping thousands of conscript soldiers and poor welfare-dependent Argentines (CFK voters all) in poorly-constructed ugly houses (such as one sees all over Argentina) on the periphery of “Puerto Argentino”. In a word they would “colonise” the Malvinas. The Falklanders would be harried and persecuted and discriminated against and, one-by-one, they would be forced in effect to leave. Without a huge subsidy, the neat and prosperous Falkland Islands would become a scruffy Malvinas, as forgotten and impoverished as Clorinda and most parts of rural Argentina. Stray dogs, rusting ironwork, abandoned cars, unfinished buildings, and slag heaps of discarded building materials would litter the landscape. The islands would lose their uniqueness and cruise ships would stop visiting. But, gloriously, Argentine’s over-inflated sense of pride would be appeased and they would be able to hold their heads high for “defeating” imperialist Britain, and all their problems would magically disappear, wouldn’t they..?
May 30th, 2012 - 01:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@154 ernest shackleton
May 30th, 2012 - 04:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0....“obsessed”....with... Hey you, stop right there. The UK is “obsessed” with Argentina negatively criticizing my country for the last 100 years. The biggest mistake former president Carlos Menen did is to re-establish the diplomatic relations with the UK. He did bankrupt Argentina like Bush bankrupted the US. As I previously stated, my 2 countries, the US and Argentina are trying to improve the most difficult economic times. The US vets are found disable suffering mental illness like you said the conscript soldiers are found in Argentina. The US the nost “powerful” and “best country in the world” can not assist the veterans on the street begging for food. The US vets are found relieving themselves on the bus stops, parks, public buildings. No one cares. The US is unable to provide immediate medical assistance because of the lack of revenues. Same situation in my Argentina. We all know that if the economy is WEAK, revenues FALLS.... Here in the US several economists have announced another recession after the next presidential elections.
Some viewers stated that “sniffed dogs” are found in most Argentina public places..that is not knew.... police with K-9 are to protect all citizens from possible unknown atacks, same in the US. Every one in the US is searched for weapons, explosives, or any other type of suspicious material or illegal activities.
Talking about “obsession” why the UK did not make a musical about Imelda Marcos 5,000 pairs of shoes and her criminal husband...instead of demostrating the UK “obsession” about Eva Peron life?.... I am waiting for your answer.....
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May 30th, 2012 - 05:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@158 Briton (#)
May 30th, 2012 - 06:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You see, that is for feeble mind... you Ynsere Think your imagination
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May 30th, 2012 - 06:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#157
May 30th, 2012 - 06:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The “UK” did not make any musical on the life of Eva Peron. It was made by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. There is no state direction in the UK as to what composers and writers must produce. Maybe there is in Argentina but I have no knowledge of this either way.
Anyway, it produced a few good songs, was popular world wide, so what was the harm. I don't think it denigrated the country of Argentina.
@157 SussieUS
May 30th, 2012 - 07:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, you'll find security dogs in most countries, but come on, sniffer dogs used to detect dollars????!!!!!
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/87733/speciallytrained-dogs-deployed-at-bordercrossings-to-sniff-out-dollars
@161 Clyde 15(#)
May 30th, 2012 - 07:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is an “obsession” for Eva Peron life... To damage her reputation they portray her as a corrupt person which is untrue.. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice had the choice to make a musical about other women such as Imelda Marcos, Soraya....or.... still waiting ....about Diana Spencer...neurotic love affair with his muslim lover... that could bring millons $$$...
The UK is “obsessed” with Argentina's goverment and Eva Peron life....That is fact, like it or not...
@163 SussieUS
May 30th, 2012 - 08:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Can you support YOUR fact? I believe most britons are NOT obsessed with the Argentina (nothing against the people) it's just that we are hearing more and more about your govenment in the international news with their odd policies. Including their obsession with dollars.
@sussieUS
May 30th, 2012 - 08:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Like most Argentines you greatly over-estimate the global importance of your former country. The UK is not in the least “obsessed” about Argentina, in fact were it not for the Falklands issue which so obsesses your deranged politicians - or the occasional soccer match - it would hardly ever make the news. It is a forgotten country and will remain so because nobody in their right mind can take it seriously. For that matter, you seem somewhat deranged yourself - why did you go off on a tangent and blather on about military veterans, a pop opera, and sniffer dogs, none of which I mentioned? As Clyde (No161) said, in no way was “dont cry for me” intended to denigrate Argentina or Eva Peron - in fact it elevated both, IMO unjustifiably. Argentines are obsessed with the Malvinas because successive governments have mass indoctrinated the sheeple with the big lie “Las Malvinas son Argentinas”. Hence all the tacky half-broken monuments that litter the country. What does Argentina intend to do with the Falklands if or when they get it? Please focus on the issue.
151 Steve_L
May 30th, 2012 - 08:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I gave evidence that there were people on the islands after the “Clio” allegedly expelled. You give me any evidence, that just repeat the position of his government, who were expelled and not allowed to return.
Dear Steve_L:
I repeat:
With all the respect you deserve, unfortunately, I will not do your work for you. Read the Argentine arguments please. I give the following evidence: Read the following books.
- Jose Maria Rosa (1968) History of revisionism. Editorial Merlin. Buenos Aires.
- Rosa, Jose Maria. The gaucho Antonio Rivero (The rebel Malvinas).
- Pigna, Philip. “The Gaucho Rivero.” Retrieved on February 29, 2012.
Importantly, the rebellion of the “Gaucho” Rivero. Is further evidence that the Argentines were expelled in 1833.
Reread the following link:
www.cuestionmalvinas.gob.ar/modules.php?name=Paginas&op=_posicion_argentina
Thank you very much.
@166 Raul:
May 30th, 2012 - 09:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Antonio Rivero was not a rebel. He was a criminal who murdered five people. His account is completely unreliable. Trying to glorify his murders as a rebellion in order to try to give credibility to his lies is pathetic.
But we are still going back, to the old 1833 syndrome, to justify his and CFKS and Argentinean claim on the Falklands, [are we not]
May 30th, 2012 - 09:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0When in fact, this was superseded by the treaty of 1850,
And certainly, not only reinforced in 1982, but that very special year,
Invalidated any and all future claims for ever, is this not much better .
She lost, and she has no rights whatsoever over the Falklands .
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Raul, I know I said I've leave this alone, but...
May 31st, 2012 - 03:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0“...I will not do your work for you”. I've already done my work. I gave evidence to support my statement. You have not done your work. You made a statement at post 28 without giving any evidence to support it. If, for some reason, you do not believe my evidence, then tell me so. I'm just asking for a good reason to believe that the Argentines were expelled and not allowed to return. I re-read your link. It's quite a big website with lots of pages and statements but provides no evidence that the population was expelled. Unless I missed something...
OK, don't even worry about producing evidence, just answer these questions: Who were the gauchos who “rebelled” if the inhabitants were expelled? Who took hid on an islands for months to avoid the gauchos, if the inhabitants were expelled? Who was Antonina Roxa and how did she come to own land if the inhabitants were expelled?
I think you have swallowed the untruths your government has created. There are other aspects of the sovereignty dispute where I agree more with the Argentine version than the British, but I won't believe something that is told to me when there is very good evidence to show it is wrong.
#163
May 31st, 2012 - 10:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0As I stated already, the UK has no obsession about Eva Peron or Argentina.
If I asked the average person , who was Eva Peron, I would get a blank look and the reply - never heard of her, or even, what is an Eva Peron ?
Maybe you should write to Mr. Webber and complain about his musical and the way he has treated the “Sainted ” Eva. Better still, come to the UK and find out for yourself.
As for Argentina, I think that the British public don't care one way or another about the country. It only comes up in the news when the Falklands are mentioned and only because of the belligerent attitude of the Argentine government. Most teenagers here could not tell you where Argentina is and were ignorant of the facts of the Falkland's war.
From your postings, it would appear that you are the one with an obsession about the relevance of your ( former ? ) country to the UK.
@170:
May 31st, 2012 - 02:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I agree that most people outside of South America have no idea who Eva Peron was. Most of those who have some idea probably think she was a fictional character portrayed by Madonna.
@166 Raul
May 31st, 2012 - 03:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No-one alive knows what happen 180 years ago, but Darwin's account is a true record of what he saw while he was their, experts agree on that.
Have you ever considered that the Argentine version of events is incorrect?
Also you still haven't answered my question in post @101
No Argentine has yet. I'm guessing you are avoiding it.
@101 Steve-32-uk:
May 31st, 2012 - 04:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, eventual full independence with Britain continuing to provide defense looks like the most likely outcome in the long-term future unless Argentina decides to be friendly to the Falkland Islanders and demonstrates reliable and consistent friendship long enough for a future generation of Falkland Islanders to want to become Argentine.
I don't sense the Falkland Islanders racing toward independence, but I'm prepared to reevaluate my assessment based on what I see and hear there during my Liberation Week visit. In the end, what the Falkland Islanders decide is the only thing that matters.
@165 Ernest Skeleton (#)
May 31st, 2012 - 04:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You don't have any rights to negatively criticize my country. Mind you own lettrine...
Argentina is a peaceful and one of the best country in the world with economical health care services, just as an example. The country is big with fertil land and minerals. The fisheries sells fish and sea food at reasonable prices. The argentine women like the venezuelan women are the most beautiful women in the world!..
The fact is, the musical about Eva Peron was made and still is seeing in North and South American theaters is because she still is the most admired woman in the world...
@168 Briton aka british bulldog aka garlik yogurt= ASSHOLE
Skare Yensere Think is your imagination...stop rocking the boat...
@170 Clyde Cloudy Mind
I repeat, growing in Chubut Patagonia I never did understand what the UK stands for....My country does not need anything from such.....
I repeat what Cameron is waiting to break diplomatic relations with my country Argentina? I keep asking the same questions and still no viewer dares to answer my question?.....
@174 Sussie
May 31st, 2012 - 05:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0'The argentine women like the venezuelan women are the most beautiful women in the world!..'
In your opinion? where's your facts.
'Argentina is a peaceful and one of the best country in the world'!
Peaceful? 30 years ago they illegally invaded a smaller nation.. Even today Argentina bully and harasses the innocent civilians of that nation.
Eva Peron -- is the most admired woman in the world...
No Sussie this isn't true, barely anyone outside Argentina have heard of her.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moron
174 SussieUS
May 31st, 2012 - 06:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0sorry little child,
i cant understand rubbish,
try again in 20 years time,
now of to bed child, you have school in the morning .
#174
May 31st, 2012 - 07:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I realise that you are not a native English speaker and I could only write something simple in Spanish, but part of your post is incomprehensible.
“Mind you own lettrine” means nothing. The word - if it is one-does not occur in English. As to having a “cloudy mind” it could well be true as at 70 one's faculties do slow down but in the context of this discussion, I think not.
Without meaning to patronise you, if you grew up in Patagonia, it is hardly the center of the universe and your contacts with the UK would be practically nil and as such, you would have very little knowledge of what the UK is like or what their people think .
My knowledge of Argentina is limited. I know a bit of its Geography and History. I have met some Argentinians in the UK and I liked them as people but did not discuss their politics or their view of the Falklands as I thought that it would have been discourteous to guests in my country.
As to the Argentine needing nothing from the UK, this may well be true. From where did you get the musical Evita ? Written and composed by two English men.
Does Britain need anything from Argentina, I don't really know. The only items I can see in the shops are wines. Anything else is well hidden.
As to our PM waiting to break of diplomatic relations with your country, although I bear the same surname as him, so far he has not taken me into his confidence on this point. Come to think of it, he doesn't ask my opinion on anything his government does. I presume it is different in your country.
CFK and Mr. Timmerman will keep an open line to you and inform you of all the decisions they are going to make before they announce it to the Argentinian public and the world.
As to Argentinian/Venezuelan women being the most attractive in the world, this is entirely a subjective opinion. Ask the populations of China and India and see if they agree. There are beautiful women in every country of the world.
@Sussie,
May 31st, 2012 - 08:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“You don't have any rights to negatively criticize my country.”
But I do, its called “freedom of speech” my darling - something perhaps you dont seem to have had much experience with. Negative criticism? On the contrary, if what I said makes just one Argentinian (you) wake up to reality, then I believe it was positive criticism.
If you believe the things you said - Argentine women the most beautiful in the world, Evita Peron the most admired woman - then you really are deluded if not demented like su presidenta. The only thing Argentina has given the world is the Tango - a highly exagerrated strutting dance - very approprate for a highly exagerrated strutting people. As for Evita, the beginning of Argentina's terminal decline from what was (between the wars) briefly a 1st world country can be timed precisely from Peron's accession and Evita's “championing of the poor”, ie, handing out dollops of freebies to get the mass vote. Does this not sound familiar with CFK's strategy?
Argentina is now suffering a 25-30% inflation rate whilst CFK's government pretends it to be under 10%. Just like the other pretension about the Falklands belonging to Argentina when they never did.
177 Clyde15
May 31st, 2012 - 08:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0She is but a child, who has had a bad upbringing, and blames every body else
She does nowt but insults, and thing this make her look big,
Her insults impress no one, but her delusions,
And as long as she acts like a child, she will be treated like a child,
Respect is earned, it is not given by insults or threats.
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Give her time, and she will realise that acting childish is only letting laugh at her,
And she will grow up, and settle down,
And get on with real conversation, like the rest of us,
We British do not hold grudges,
An interesting observation,
Is it not.
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@179 Briton(#)
May 31st, 2012 - 09:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So who gives you the right to talk about the argentine goverment?...
The Pinguin started insulting the argentine leader, las suecas, los chilotes and uruguayans have degrade my argentine president...and now so feel offended.....Leave my Argentina alone...you dam old freak...
@177 Clyde
May 31st, 2012 - 09:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I assumed that “Mind you own lettrine” probably meant “mind your own latrine” but of course I cannot be sure.
180
May 31st, 2012 - 10:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@179 Briton(#)
So who gives you the right to talk about the argentine goverment?.
[The same right, as you have to condemn my government]
Also your governments claim to British territory]
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The Pinguin started insulting the argentine leader,
What is a pinguin] no English [again]
las suecas, los chilotes and uruguayans have degrade my argentine president.
[No idea who they are or what they are ..]
..and now so feel offended.
[And we all feel offended, for your countries illegal invasion of an innocent unarmed undefended peaceful innocent islanders ]
To who,,, that makes your government DIRECTLY guilty, of the deaths of over 700 argentine and British and Falklanders lives,]
Does this answer, your question.
....Leave my Argentina alone...you dam old freak...
No, you leave the British Falklands alone]
And again you cant open you mouth without insults coming out,
For an immigrant that hides the America, then condemns all those that either support or defends you,
Who then are you,
Besides being a very rude little girl
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'Argentina is a peaceful and one of the best country in the world'!
Jun 01st, 2012 - 01:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Peaceful? 30 years ago they illegally invaded a smaller nation.. Even today Argentina bully and harasses the innocent civilians of that nation
nAtion steve? Which one?The one that The UN,C-24,Mercosur,Unasur say there is a dispute,which Brazil recognizes has an Argentine sovereign territory?
What a bunch of losers and LIARS the brits in this forum(90% of them)!
@184 briton aka british bulldog aka greek yogurt aka british_Ketchup
Jun 01st, 2012 - 03:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mercosur did not permit me to respond your questions. But, I tell you again: I am not interested on your UK...... it takes my attention that Cameron INSISTS in maintaining diplomatic relations with my Argentina.
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Jun 01st, 2012 - 06:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@185 Briton (#)
Jun 01st, 2012 - 08:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I already had respond to your attention I am not interested in you, your UK, citizens and islands.
So, please comply with my request not to respond my comments,..
You have the choice to ignore my comments rather than to show your continue desire to degrade me as a human being.
There are many other interesting things to see here in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Phoenix. So mind your own business.
@183 The United Nations do not stipulate that the Falkland islands are handed to a colonialist power like Argentina. They recommend independance for territories that are dependent territories. That is waht will eventually happen with the Islands, although as self-determination is paramount at the UN, they are entitled to chose to be British as French Guiana (also in the American continent) are entitled to remain French.
Jun 02nd, 2012 - 12:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0186 SussieUS
Jun 02nd, 2012 - 06:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0DEGRADE YOU
stupid child
all of your bloggs have insulted me and my fellow britons, and we have done nothing,
just like CFK you insult and then claim to be the victim.
dont then reply to us, or post on here, unless you expect a comment back
[do you understand]
so please, dont go their,
either be polit, or stop acting the child
GOODBYE
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