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Falklands’ delegates at the Parlamericas assembly in Panama as invited observers

Wednesday, September 5th 2012 - 19:25 UTC
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Politicians and opinion formers are genuinely interested to hear about the Falkland Islands and plans for the coming referendum said lawmakers from the Islands who recently participated at the Parlamericas, (Parliamentarians for the Americas) conference in Panama City (*). Read full article

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  • brucey-babe

    Christina`s not going to like this.

    Sep 05th, 2012 - 07:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    Good to see them out there with a voice.

    Sep 05th, 2012 - 07:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Islas Malvinas

    @1 What!? Cristina is gonna love this! Seeing you making a fool of yourselves pretending deseperately with no success to have a non-appliable right recognized!

    Sep 05th, 2012 - 08:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    @3 You do not know your President at all. She only wants her fabricated story being discussed anywhere. She will be spitting venom that LatAm delegates are hearing the truth.

    Sep 05th, 2012 - 08:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    3 Islas Malvinas

    If they do make a fool out of themselves ( which I very much doubt ) it will make a change from KFC doing it now won't it?

    Sep 05th, 2012 - 08:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • LightThink

    I heard recently that the Parlamericas will invite the Algonquins ,Yuroks,Haidas,... to honor Tecumseh !

    Sep 05th, 2012 - 08:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Falkland Islands

    We are going to do this as much as possible, get our word out, so people don't here a one sided story.

    Sep 05th, 2012 - 08:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    7 Falkland Islands

    You should!! make yourself heard!! start mixing it up a little!! The more that other nations hear from you. See your delegates, Hear your side of the story the better!!

    Go for it!! and god speed!!!

    Sep 05th, 2012 - 08:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • atk357

    Great Mates! good for you! ...“in like flint”!!.....off the record, may be CF will have a temper tantrum after this...!

    Sep 05th, 2012 - 08:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ProRG_American

    “Invited”. Yeah right! Surely swindled their way in with some help from their right wing Chilean friends. Al smoke and mirrors. They do not have the right to self determination and everyone knows it. Two imported idiots making fools of themselves again.

    Sep 05th, 2012 - 08:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Falkland Islands

    Your own imported idiot kretiner makes afoot of herself all the time, we will see.

    Sep 05th, 2012 - 08:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ProRG_American

    Exactly “we will see”

    Sep 05th, 2012 - 09:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • PirateLove

    @10 SELF DETERMINATION!!! get use to it.... you are gonna hear a lot of it :)

    Sep 05th, 2012 - 09:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • malen

    I want self determination in Liverpool if that is the wayyyyyyyyy

    Sep 05th, 2012 - 09:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • JuanGabriel

    @14 most of the rest of the United Kingdom would quite happily sign off on a Liverpudlian secession. Even Scousers aren't that dumb though.

    At least the yes vote would get more votes, thanks to your contribution, than the 'join up with Argentina' option will at the Falklands referendum.

    Sep 05th, 2012 - 10:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    @14 What is your obsession with Liverpool? Don't you like the wheels on your car?

    Sep 05th, 2012 - 10:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Malvinero1

    People are genuinely interested to hear from us and take a great deal of interest in what we have to say. Our reception in Central America has been excellent and I believe we have forged many useful relationships here with both politicians and opinion formers”, underlined MLA Sawle on the discussions held at the Parlamericas 9th Plenary Assembly (August 31/Sept 1)
    AHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
    Who cares about TOSE pricks! sawle=LIAR=pinocchio

    SELF DETERMINATION!!! get use to it.... you are gonna hear a lot of it :)
    AHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
    MAlvinenses at the c24
    Imploring the Special Committee not to adopt the resolution as presented, Roger Edwards, an elected official of the Legislative Assembly of the Falkland Islands, and one of several petitioners to take the floor on the issue, pointed out that the text had been drafted without a reference to the wishes of the Falkland people and their fundamental right to self-determination. “Falkland Islanders do not wish to see a change from British sovereign status,” he declared. The Islands had never formed part of Argentina; they were self-sufficient, self-governing and enjoyed a high standard of living. “Please respect our people’s wishes and our right to self-determination,” he said.
    http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2011/gacol3225.doc.htm
    tHANK YOU PIRATES SQUATTERS maLVINENSES,That reinforces Argentina's position...

    Sep 05th, 2012 - 10:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Anbar

    “We are going to do this as much as possible, get our word out, so people don't here a one sided story.”

    Yup, more of the same please: Let the world know that the Falklands people cannot be brushed aside and ignored the way the colonialists in the Kirchner government want to do.

    Sep 05th, 2012 - 10:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Zhivago

    I'm sure Cristina is going to make Massimo change vibrators tonight and perhaps even put the anal attachment on, she'll have to vent her frustrations somehow!

    Sep 05th, 2012 - 11:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Steveu

    @17 Malvi

    We all know C24 is a complete circus (when the Syrians start to lecture about human rights, you know that they have no credibility).

    You must get that keyboard seen to. The Caps Lock seems to be a bit sticky

    Sep 05th, 2012 - 11:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Malvinero1

    We all know C24 is a complete circus (when the Syrians start to lecture about human rights, you know that they have no credibility).

    You must get that keyboard seen to. The Caps Lock seems to be a bit sticky
    Sure and the brits are going to go on lecturing the world about HOw to comply with the International LAw,rigth?MAlvinas,Aghfanistan,Irak,India,China,the opium pusher,etc.
    uk HAS ABSOLUTELY NO MORAL standing to do so...Same is applicable to USA,and the ex Soviet Union.THEY broke all the possible international laws!
    Certainly the C24 has much more moral standing than uk and the sawle,and many of the mAlvinenses squatters.Get use to it: Crime does NOT PAY! Justice in the end will allways win!Get use to it: The ex-brit empire will have to pay for it! BIG TIME! I am sorry to say to you!

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 12:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Frank

    @9 '..“in like flint”!!.....off the record, may be CF will have a temper tantrum after this...!'

    That is actually 'In like Flynn' which refers to Errol Flynn's habit of poking anything that had a pulse.... but even he would have drawn the line at poking the MBOA.

    I hope this latest news makes her head explode.....

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 12:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Lord Ton

    http://falklandsnews.wordpress.com/2012/09/06/argentinas-complaint-to-the-un/

    :-)

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 01:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marcos Alejandro

    Nice to see this two Englishman(Dick Sawle and Barry Elsby) representing England.

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 01:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Sergio Vega

    10@ I hope that our Chilean Congressmen from the right side (the good one) have helped the Falklanders Representatives to be heard at the meeting to give the American Parlamentaries the truth to teach them about a self governed country that want to keep its British nationality under the right of the self determination of the people..... May be some of the Argentines Representatives (from the Justicialista Party) can learn some of the British South Atlantic Islands history.....very different to the fiction stories narrated at their own county....
    All of us that have been there, the FI, even for a short time knows that the people there is very proud to be Islanders and British at the same time and they won´t change their “Desire for the right” as their motto says....
    So, go for it, Islanders....!!!

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 02:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Steveu

    @23 LT

    Oh for Gawd's sake. It had my crying!

    Those Search and Rescue helicopters can be dangerous things. It would have been funny if he had been called upon to rescue an RG ship in distress - “don't come anywhere near us with your weapon of war”.

    Yeah right!

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 06:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Iron Man

    @20 Personally I would have expected British Kirchener's keyboard to be the sticky one, what with all the time he spends 'examining' picture of CFK. Perhaps BK and Malvi are one and the same?

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 06:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    To Arg.supporters. What do you have to fear from this ?
    All the FI reps. did was to meet with some of the delegates and explain their point of view. Are you terrified that their version might cast some doubts in the minds of parliamentarians that they may have been fed a biased story from Argentina ?
    Oh, I forgot, Argentina is the flagholder of truth, democracy and fair dealings in the whole of the Americas.
    No one has the right to any opinion that may clash with their universal truths that have been written into their constitution.

    #23
    I can just imagine the reaction.
    “Christ, They are still at it! Tell them I am not in !!! ”

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 09:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brit Bob

    Nice to hear that someone isrepresenting the Falkland Islands and 'getting their point of view accross' instead of having to listen to endless propaganda from CFK and her cronies.

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 09:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • lsolde

    Poor Cristina(not!).
    Hasn't she got something better to do?(like running a country).

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 10:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CJvR

    @23 - Wow! You would have to be either totally ignorant, brain damaged, a professional diplomat or all three to squeeze that much errors into so short a note.

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 10:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Anbar

    “To Arg.supporters. What do you have to fear from this ?”

    The truth.

    ------------------------------

    ”Nice to see this two Englishman(Dick Sawle and Barry Elsby) representing England.”

    Out of interest, is Argentina represented by an indigenous South American...or a Spanish decendant?

    ....just saying.....

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 10:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • PirateLove

    @14 then put a claim in then, but like The Falklands i think you will find there are already people living there with rights :), but like argentina you can try.
    SELF-DETERMINATION!!

    @15 meaning? you know all liverpudlians personally do you? i thought not, I thnk you will find during the victorian/edwardian era if it wasnt for liverpool and its people there would have been no british empire, look up your history before you judge its people ,einstein! even you are not that dumb!

    @16 Cars thats yesterdays news, ask yourself have you ever seen a plane takeoff from liverpool airport, got to move with the times :)

    @17 just for you “SELF-DETERMINATION” & “DEMOCRACY” it is as simple as that, and you know it :))) unfortately for you C24 does not trump Human rights. have a nice day!

    @19 motherly love, what a horrible vision, and them poor vibrators, they have rights too....

    @24 they have lived on The Falklands for a combined 50 years, id say that makes them Falkland folk in their own right or at very least dual nationality, and as your rancid queen is using immigrants to buy votes, then please dont be hypocritical, at least you will find this is democracy in action unlike vote rigging using foreigners and the “K” youth in Argentinas “Dictocracy” :)

    @26 give them enough rope :)

    @28 Argtards know that come march, it is Over for them, although i believe it has been since the referendum was announced.

    @30 shes too busy on planning how to run from her country.

    SELF_DETERMINATION & DEMOCRACY!!! ITS ALL GOOD!!!

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 10:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • coldo

    It seems to be that the response of Argentine’s to this and other subjects smart of desperation. People are clearly not taking the constant drivel passed out from this country as fact and are actively engaging with the FIG and its people on more and more matters.

    The recent response to the referendum shows that Argentina is on the back foot and clutching at straws claiming its some sort of parody. Looks like they are also showing clear aggression to unarmed vessels in the region which I notice MercoPress has omitted from reporting on. http://www.fis.com/fis/worldnews/worldnews.asp?l=e&country=0&special=&monthyear=&day=&id=55120&ndb=1&df=0

    What’s next out fo the box from CFK and her team to try and deliver…?

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 11:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • M_of_FI

    It is good to see our elected Councillors represent its people with such distinction. And seeing the comments 3, 10, 17, 21 and 24, the desired effect is being obtained.

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 11:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • PirateLove

    The falklands have effectively forced Argentina to a deadline, and time is running out for the dictatorship......desperate times bring desperate measures.....lets see how desperate argentina have become :)))

    SELF-DETERMINATION & DEMOCRACY!!

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 11:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Betty Boop

    Good job being done by two of our democratically elected representatives.

    The following article is completely off topic:

    http://english.telam.com.ar/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16188%3Anobel-peace-prize-perez-esquivel-made-a-presentation-in-lower-house-on-malvinas&catid=42%3Apolitics

    All the usual nonesense but can anyone explain what 'sanitary aid' is being proposed for us and why we need a new National Broadcasting Service?

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 11:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Falkland Islands

    @24 Marcos Alejandro TUFF if you don't like it, this is our land our people keep your long nose out of our business :)

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 12:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

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    Sep 06th, 2012 - 12:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • HansNiesund

    @37
    How curious. It sounds as if they are preparing for a takeover.

    I guess by “sanitary aid” they really mean “health care”.

    The mind boggles at the thought of an Argentine National Broadcasting Service aimed at the Falklands. The Troll, Think, Pirat-Hunter, etc , all getting their own show, and endless documentaries about what never happened in 1833. Sort of a Mercopress Live.

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 12:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • gustbury

    No more begging, you just have to raise the Argentine flag and did it!!

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 12:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Simon68

    37 Betty Boop (#)
    Sep 06th, 2012 - 11:58 am

    Firstly I must admit that I don't know what “sanitary aid” is supposed to be, especially for you Islanders, maybe Telam have got mixed up and realy the Government are discussing a bit of “sanitary aid” for the Argentine people!!!!

    Secondly, obviously you need a National Broadcasting Service to be able to watch and listen to the MBOA doing her (almost) daily “cadena nacional” monologues!!!!!

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 12:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • HansNiesund

    @37
    Apparently they're also going to air-drop you some pans so you can have a cacerolazo.

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 01:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • EnginnerAbroad

    The Uk broke no international laws over the Falklands these laws didnt exisits until 1945 and As i have told you many times UN laws does not apply restrospectivily past 1945. A country in say 1830 could foresably have seen the implimentation of the UN and its laws and such they could not comply with laws that did not exisit. If they did aplly retropsectivily then by your very Argument Aregtnina has no right to the whole of Patagonia which was collonised by Argentine in the 1870's. it is either one law for all or no laws at all. Argentina cannot lecture the world on so called collonisation in 1833 when it was then quilt of the exact same collinisation process in its own country 50 years later.

    Either way it dosnt matter, UN law applied from 1945 on and as such the rights of the islanders are enshrined in the UN charter (the highest document of the UN) and as such can not be legal removed by any resolutions which much comply with the charter, (its called the hirachy of documents). Even if self detrmination did not (for some reason) every UN resolution issued by the general council has indicated any decion ont he future of the islands must take into consideration the intrests of the current population. It is impossible for their intrests to be served by transferring them from a semi-otonomus terrioty to a territory which is wholly owned and administarted from a foreign power with whom they share no cultural links.

    To argue that the legilsators are not allowed because they born in the UK is nonsense they have been selected by islanders to represent them, this is the same as saying that CFK who is 3rd/4th generation Argentine (Father from Spanish descent, Mother from German descent) can not represent the intrest of thos Argentines who are 8th or 9th generation. This is of course false as she was elected by those people to represent them and as such is legitamate.

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 01:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • gustbury

    think about it Pepe don't lies:
    http://www.telam.com.ar/nota/37113/

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 01:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Betty Boop

    #40 I would pay good money to watch Mercopress Live!!

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 02:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • redpoll

    @45 Suggest you read the Republica article in full together with other stories in the press on that subject

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 02:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • War Monkey

    @28 Clyde15 (#)
    Sep 06th, 2012 - 09:04 am

    Don't you know how a Malvinista gets when somebody with an opposing viewpoint gets to express it to their own target audience?

    ................ B O O M !!!! ...............

    Pirates! Squatters! Thieves! We ares Owens you ares pasties!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 03:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    Excellent work by the properly elected members!

    The more other nations, especially in the americas, hear the truth about the Falklands (there are STILL no Malvinas) from people without mental disorders (unlike TMBOA and her minions) the more they will appreciate the opportunities that their countries may be missing out on.

    Once that happens Argentina will be dropped like the stinking turd TMBOA seems determined to make it. Remember, a polished turd is still a turd!

    LOL

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 03:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • redpoll

    Telam is a news agency wholly controlled by the RG govt and is about as reliable as any other information such as statistics put about by that govt

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 04:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Musky

    @3 I M
    Parlamericas did not invite the falklanders to make fun of them.

    Well done islanders.

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 05:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Islander1

    Marcos - if a Spanish or Italian person emigrated to Argentina, settled there, took out Argentine nationality after qualification and say after 20 years or so then stood for election to Congress and was elected and their party was also the party of Govt - Would that person not be entitled to speak for Argentina and Argentine people ?

    Do please answer this question with one of these 2 words:

    Yes or No ?

    Malen and IsMalv - being invited as an observer in a region where you are or have interests is standard practice - same way as UK has observer status at the OAS.
    Such a shame that you 3 can never understand oir accept democratci principles and free speech!
    Oh malen - do please list and name the Int laws that UK etc have broken that you claim?

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 05:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • PirateLove

    slightly off topic but still it put a smile on my face, Argentina is this the best you are offering The Falklands population to come aboard???,

    http://www.economist.com/node/21562238

    If Argentines are that hungry to pay 6 pesos for a alfajor, how much will they give me for a whole pack of custard creams??? a weeks wages???

    SELF-DETERMINATION & DEMOCRACY :))

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 06:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • LightThink

    53

    dont ignore this article

    www.economist.com/node/21562230

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 06:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • PirateLove

    @54 and whats the point? people leave their country to work, hows that a bad thing? every country worth a shit has workers going abroad as well as workers coming in it a sign of expertise and know how, and as i have worked abroad and my digs were paid for , most of my wages went back home for my family to spend in Britain. so ill ask you again whats your point?

    by the way how much was your lunch today or did you skip it to buy crack??

    SELF-DETERMINATION & DEMOCRACY :)) All day every day....

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 06:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    @54

    And your point is what?

    Having read the item it clearly states the picture of less immigration and more emigration for the UK.

    More qualified people leaving to work in other countries: I'd like to see you be ABLE to do that with your standard of education (or misinformation) that is AG today.

    BTW, your homeland Spain no less, the PM has advised ALL young qualified people to leave because 'there is no work here for the FORESEABLE FUTURE'.

    And yes, my wife and I have come to Uruguay primarily for her health. What a wonderful country it is compared to the shit-hole that you live in.

    Any more questions?

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 06:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • PirateLove

    @56 snap,
    “clutching” and “straws” springs to mind, the “K” model in affect,
    maybe “MightThink” should “FirstThink” before “NotThink” or is it he “CantThink” of what “ToThink” and needs to “ReThink” his “ShiteThink” thats what “IThink”

    SELF-DETERMINATION & DEMOCRACY :))

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 07:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • LightThink

    Be relax gentleguys please !

    56

    wellknown that foggy,rainy,cold England is not healthy place to live there

    ----

    55

    Self Determiantion & Democracy are not enough to have a prestige
    You have to need to have “” self governing “” not by “” constituted /deputized Governors “”.

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 07:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • PirateLove

    @58 good news to see The Falkland delegates having been INVITED to the Parlamericas assembly as observers, theres nothing like recognition, that no troll can deny no matter how much they try to justify your lack of Human Rights under the UN Charter that applies to ALL peoples.
    you should be more worried about feeding your family, instead of breeding with them.

    SELF-DETERMINATION & DEMOCRACY :))))

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 07:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Steve-32-uk

    “We want to decide our future”
    http://www.prensalibre.com/internacional/queremos-decidir-futuro_0_769123146.html

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 08:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • WestisBest

    @58

    “Self Determiantion & Democracy are not enough to have a prestige
    You have to need to have “” self governing “” not by “” constituted /deputized Governors ”

    and who are you to state what we need to do? as long as our government is what we Falkland Islanders want that's fine by us, it's no concern of yours so you can just keep your nose out.

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 08:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • 2012

    @ 5
    keep your islands you know where...

    Sep 06th, 2012 - 09:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ynsere

    Why shouldn't Falkland Islanders be at Parlasur? The Falklands are a South American democracy as well as a British Overseas Territory. If and when the Islanders decide to become independent, the Falklands will continue to be a South American democracy and must be respected by its neighbours.

    Sep 07th, 2012 - 12:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marcos Alejandro

    52 Islander1 ” if a Spanish or Italian person emigrated to Argentina, settled there, took out Argentine nationality....
    Yes.
    First, no inmigrant in Argentina mainland, including British, ever claimed a piece of land here in behalf of their country of origin.
    What nationality did Barry or Dick changed to? British nationality to British nationality?

    Sep 07th, 2012 - 04:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • malen

    63 South America for southamericans. Europe for europeans.

    Sep 07th, 2012 - 08:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • lsolde

    Good point, malen.
    And the Falkland lsles for Falklanders(&NOT Argentines!).

    Sep 07th, 2012 - 08:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • LightThink

    “” Self Determination & Democracy “” are not enough to have prestige

    You have to need to have your “” self governing “” not by constituted/deputized Governors.

    Sep 07th, 2012 - 10:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • St.John

    @ 176 Hermes1967 writes:

    ”The arguments put forward in support of british sovereignty conflict with the (many, many) conclusions of the following british subject matter experts, all highly regarded in their fields - to name a few, Jeffrey Myhre [12], Peter Beck, Ronald Barston, Patricia Birnie...“

    The ”highly regarded“ ”expert“ Jeffrey D. Myhre who ”support“ the Argentine claim was a research STUDENT in the International Relations Department at the London School of ECONOMICS, and his modest article does NOT support the Argentine claim. He concludes that ”Perhaps, the islands are British by prescription and self-determination. More likely, they belong to Argentina by uti posseditis acquisition of Spanish rights or by occupation of terra nullius. [12]

    If the the best you can show is “perhaps” and “more likely”, you ain't got nothing.

    Before I waste more time on your “highly regarded” “experts” who “support” you have to give title(s) + ISBN(s) or link(s) AND excerpts.

    [12] Jeffrey D. Myhre: “Title to the Falklands-Malvinas Under International Law” (1983) http://mil.sagepub.com/content/12/1/25.full.pdf

    Sep 07th, 2012 - 11:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Islander1

    Marcos, Thanks the reply. Both Sawle and Elsby had to qualify by residence period and other things like qualifications, job etc to receive- Falkland Islands Permanent Residency Status.
    Yes they keep their same passport nationality but have their FI Status no stamped inside it. You cannot just arrive here from UK and live with a Br Passport - you are an immigrant just the same as if you were Chilean or Argentine and have to have a work permit. All are treated the same on arrival.

    So I hope you will agree that these 2 are thus entitled to represent the Islands - as they were elected to do so.

    As far as I know the only property they own here are their homes and gardens! Surely even with your belief that is allowed?

    You cannot pretend we do not physically exist! You are entitled to your belief that the Islands belong to Arg - but the reality fact is that we are the people here and have our elected Govt - this is who you have to deal with - by ignoring reality and just saying UK --UK---UK -- gets nowhere. As Christina is starting to find out.

    Sep 07th, 2012 - 02:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    All the Malvanistas AND TMBOA with all her crooks (that is how you spell government in Argentina, isn't it?) will find out after March when the UN will be unable to include them in the list of nations requiring determination.

    Sep 07th, 2012 - 03:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • St.John

    53 PirateLove “slightly off topic but still it put a smile on my face”

    Right now this joke is taking the round in Argentina

    Matemática nueva:

    1 litro de leche:... $ 7
    1 kg. de pan: ....... $ 9
    1 kg. de carne: .. $ 30
    ----------------------
    Total: ................. $ 6

    Sep 07th, 2012 - 04:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Joe Bloggs

    62 2012

    Sussie why do you keep changing names and then not even denying it? Why don't you save the hassle of setting up all the different accounts and just say all of your garbage from the same name?

    Mercopress, why do you put up with this type of crap? Unless, of course, ah, wait a minute, don't tell me you're just happily counting every new account as another new member. LOL! Do your advertisers know that there are only a fraction of different people using this site compared to the number of actual accounts?

    Chuckle chuckle.

    Sep 07th, 2012 - 08:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • 2012

    Is unbelievable how much the english people try to tell argentinians all what we do is wrong.
    They should try to correct their UK “royals” behavior which is simply unacceptable.
    New investigations about Diana Spencer point at the “royals” as participants for her death!

    Sep 07th, 2012 - 10:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Zhivago

    73 Sussie US

    Sussie the cunt has some sort of problems with the royals, jealousy perhaps, but I think it might run deeper than that. Stupid girl, the Royal family does not actually run the country, they are a celebration of tradition, nothing more. You need to spend more time studying in between scrubbing toilets and making tamales.

    Sep 08th, 2012 - 12:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Islander1

    74 - do enlighten us with this“ unnaceptable” behaviour you claim? They are all normal folk at the end of the day.
    I cannot think of anything anyone of them has done as being “unnaceptable”
    I suspect a lot of frustrated dirty old men got a bit frustrated recently when they saw what normal healthy lively single young men can do.
    I would suggest you have evidence before you make silly allegations like implying someone was involved in a death!

    Sep 08th, 2012 - 03:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pete Bog

    @73
    Of course not everything Argentina does is wrong.

    But everytime Argentina critises the UK,or the Falkland Islands, there are an abundance of mistakes the Argentines have made to counter those cricisms.

    If Argentina got its own house in order before mouthing off at everyone else playing the sob story victim, then they would earn more respect.

    Their outburst at Prince William being a consquistadore (whilst flying an un-armed search and rescue helicopter) was an example of Argentina's diplomacy by bullshit and their descent to never- never land.

    Its OK taking a swipe at some unsavory actions at a Royal if your own politicians like 'Prince Maximo' weren't total clowns themselves.

    I mean, WHO can take Timmerman seriously after the rubbish he came out with at the UN this year?

    Sep 08th, 2012 - 03:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • row82

    Please support this page - Falkland Islands Desire The Right - dedicated to Falkland Islands current affairs, keeping the islands free and poking fun at the lunacy of the Argentine government and their various claims and winding up their Internet trolls -
    https://www.facebook.com/Britain1592

    Sep 08th, 2012 - 06:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • lost1

    Please support this page aimed at promoting Britain's Overseas Territories...

    https://www.facebook.com/BOTUK1

    Sep 08th, 2012 - 06:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Falkland Islands

    @65 malen you are a european, South America is full of Dagos, mostly Italian descendants, so how can we be any different. Well unless you are a racist, which most of your country is.

    Sep 08th, 2012 - 07:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • British_Kirchnerist

    #19 Are you suggesting Cristina has sex with her son?! Thats low and disgusting even by your low and disgusting standard. You really are a disgrace to the name of a good character from a good film. And then #59 brings up “feeding your family, instead of breeding with them” right out of the blue, this really is silly (and nasty) season!

    Sep 09th, 2012 - 01:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Zhivago

    80 BK
    I thought it was common knowledge, that photo of the two of them dancing comes to mind! I'm a disgrace? I'm sure Boris Pasternak would be fine with me stealing the name of one of his literary characters yet you insult all of Great Britain with your chosen moniker, remember what happens to trsitors.

    Sep 09th, 2012 - 07:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • British_Kirchnerist

    #81 I've never seen that photo, a lot of mothers and sons dance, but no I don't think its “common knowledge” that it goes further than dancing. I'll leave the final say to the others on here, calling all Argies (and knowledgable others): is it common knowledge that Cristina is in an incestuous relationship?! And if it is why don't the haters use it more often....

    Sep 09th, 2012 - 12:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Zhivago

    82 BK
    I doubt even the Argies will come to your defense, they are brainwashed and thoroughly indoctrinated but they are not traitors.

    Sep 09th, 2012 - 03:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • redpoll

    Well Bk has now changed from being a republican to a royalist “Beautiful Queen Christina” !!!!!! As in any dynasty Evita is now a saint and Cristina wants to take her place iin the pantheon 0f Peronist Gods. Why the hell theArgies bother with pretending to be democrats: onlyGod and Cristiana knows and she has a hotline to Him appaently. ¡Viva Principe Maximo and his campora followers!

    Sep 09th, 2012 - 06:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • British_Kirchnerist

    #83 What's that got to do with anything. Argies (and others) aren't being asked here to “defend” me, but to confirm or deny whether its “common knowledge” that Cristina is shagging her son, as you bizzarely said it was!

    #84 I'm not a royalisyt, Reina Cristina is just a nice nickname for her. Anyway she's earned the right to be called regal far more than the likes of Harry...

    Sep 09th, 2012 - 09:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • 2012

    @74
    I am not interested in receiving your answers.

    Wimp!

    Sep 09th, 2012 - 10:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Zhivago

    86 Scuzzy
    Then don't ask a question!

    Skank!

    Sep 10th, 2012 - 01:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • British_Kirchnerist

    #87 I see you find it easier to reply to suzy than to me...

    Sep 10th, 2012 - 12:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • redpoll

    BK,
    It may be a nickname to you but she really believes she is ordained by God to lead a dynasty. If you remember the Brits had a few objections to “the divine right of kings” 400 years ago and that finished up in Civil War. If you want a South American parallel to Cristina, read up on the carreer of Elizabeth Lynch whose aspirations to be the Empress of South America plunged our countries into a particularly bloody and forgotten war

    Sep 10th, 2012 - 04:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • 2012

    @ 87
    Your are a wimp and only likes to hurt the beatiful Senorita

    Sep 10th, 2012 - 04:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • redpoll

    290 Senorita? Were her children borne by Immaculate Conception perhaps? Well Nestor was maybe the Holy Ghost and Maximo is going to be the Saviour. Hey hang on a minute! Didnt that fellow get crucified?

    Sep 10th, 2012 - 06:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • 2012

    @ 91
    Don't you have the access to The Economist?
    Read my post about Prince Harry bare buttocks....
    V i v a L a s V e g a s
    Sin City for the “royal” UK Prince Crap!

    Sep 10th, 2012 - 07:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • British_Kirchnerist

    #89 Never heard of Lynch but will Google her. I really don't think you're right about any dynastic ambitions, if Maximo was being groomed as a successor I think he'd have been far more prominent in public for years, I hope Cristina changes the constitution so she can herself run again (like any British PM!) but otherwise the administration candidate will be someone outside the family, Timmerman maybe?

    Sep 11th, 2012 - 01:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    @93 “Like any British PM!”

    You just do not understand LatAm political structures at all do you?

    TMBOA does not have to face a vote of confidence 24/7, which if she fails it, removes her from the Presidency IMMEDIATELY.

    TMBOA can use all her La Campora thugs to intimidate anyone she wants without risk of arrest in order to stay in power.

    It was exactly this concern of the original drafters of the constitution that limits the number of terms without a period out of office. Nothing to stand in her way trying to get re-elected after that, other than she will be close to 70 yo and even more bi-polar than she is now.

    You really should try and get a grip on things, especially basic economic matters if you want to continue posting without looking a complete sycophantic idiot.

    Sep 11th, 2012 - 11:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • British_Kirchnerist

    “You just do not understand LatAm political structures at all do you?

    TMBOA does not have to face a vote of confidence 24/7, which if she fails it, removes her from the Presidency IMMEDIATELY”

    And yet some people kept saying Lugo did...

    Sep 12th, 2012 - 10:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0

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