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Falklands/Malvinas discussions between UK and Argentine lawmakers
Brawer announced a delegation of MPs will visit Argentina next June Lawmakers from Argentina and the UK attending the 128th Inter-parliamentarian Union assembly held in Ecuador have been holding intense but ‘respectful’ discussions about the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute.
“A bilateral meeting between the two delegations has taken place in the framework of the inter-parliamentary assembly in Quito, it has been intense, but respectful given the different positions on such a sensitive issue” admitted Argentine member of the Lower House Mara Brawer.
“Argentina has no intention of imposing its sovereignty over the Islands but demands that the UN resolutions on the dispute be complied and this means both sides have to sit down and dialogue”.
Brawer said the UK is not abiding the UN resolutions but in Quito “we managed a common ground to discuss” the issue.
The Argentine lawmaker revealed that next June a delegation of British members of parliament will be visiting Argentina to address such issues as bilateral trade, cultural cooperation and “why not talks over the Malvinas sovereignty”.
“The UK delegation said that the emphasis of the visit should be on trade and investments, with no priority for the Malvinas issue, but I anticipate that talking about the Islands won’t be absent from the overall discussions”, said Brawer.
The lawmaker underlined that during the talks with the UK delegation in Quito “our delegation insisted that the Malvinas are Argentine and that the archipelago is an occupied territory and certainly not a colonized population but rather implanted”.
She also discarded that in the conflict ‘there is a third party”, and the dialogue which the UN is claiming must take place between the governments of Argentina and the UK.
Furthermore in the recent referendum in the Malvinas Islands, “the local population that lives in the Islands acknowledged they were British, and thus ratified that they are not the third leg of the conflict”.
Finally the lawmaker which belongs to the grouping “Victory Front” from President Cristina Fernandez and represents the City of Buenos Aires said that “how in the XXI century can we still have colonies?”
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Read all commentsoh god will thier incessant babbling ever cease..................ICJ losers
Mar 26th, 2013 - 05:12 am 0Oh no another CFK mouthpiece, the article started off well but ended on the same old note, They just don't get it, the referendum is only the begining of the end game, which ultimately will no doubt in the years to come lead to Independence.
Mar 26th, 2013 - 05:26 am 0The 2 issues here are, Colonies and Self determination, Firstly the peoples of the Falklands cannot be denied their right to self determination. Secondly handing over the Falklands in one form or another to Argentina, would actually create a colony. But Argentina refuses to accept either of these realities
HOw in this century can we still have colonies!!!!???????????
Mar 26th, 2013 - 06:38 am 0In effect the genetic makeup of RG land suggests colonism - right or wrong?
It suggest a population was imp[lanted in SA, and then leads on to suggest that by creating RGland, the popultion of europeans had to systematically opress and overrun the local population.
For fudge sake RGland - YOU ARE (GENTICS PROVE IT) A NATION THAT IS A PRODUCT OF COLONISM! you really are a bunch of fudging monkeys if you can not see it!
So why not give patagonia to the native indians and show how really equal and balanced you are about colonial/territorial situations.
Lying, greedy, thieving RG's!
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