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Stories for June 15th 2012

• Friday, June 15th 2012 - 03:18 UTC

  Summers invites Argentina to sit down and enter into a dialogue with the people of the Falklands

  

  In his speech to the UN Decolonization Committee MLA Mike Summers recalled that Article 1 of the UN Charter sets out the importance of respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of all peoples, which Argentina ignores and the Commission, which tries to be neutral, does not express this in its resolutions.

• Friday, June 15th 2012 - 02:55 UTC

  Do human beings not have human rights if they reside on a piece of land that Argentina wants?

  

  The first petitioner for the Falkland Islands MLA Roger Edwards before the UN Decolonization Committee said that Argentina claims to fight against colonialism yet wishes to annex the Islands and “subject our people to alien subjugation and domination”, which is the very definition of colonialism.

• Friday, June 15th 2012 - 01:36 UTC

  British Prime Minister boost for the Falkland Islands

  

  On the thirtieth anniversary of its liberation from Argentine occupation (June 14), the Falkland Islands was given its biggest boost by any British Prime Minister since Margaret Thatcher.