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Belize and Guatemala agree on 'road map' to address the territorial dispute
Belize and Guatemala agreed at the headquarters of the Organization of American States on a “Road Map and Plan of Action”, which has as its main objective the strengthening of the bilateral relationship between the two countries during 2014 in order to make concrete the holding of popular consultations to enable the consideration of the territorial dispute before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThe Guatemalan Foreign Minister referred to the possibility of taking the territorial dispute to the ICJ
Jan 26th, 2014 - 07:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0accompanied by a political solution based on dialogue, .
We hope CFK is listening,
this could be an example to Argentina,
all friends together..
6 years gone - still talking about talking :-)
Jan 26th, 2014 - 11:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Another mess created by Brits.
Jan 27th, 2014 - 02:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0#3
Jan 27th, 2014 - 07:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0In times past Britain (and other European countries) had as much right to settle the Americas as the Spanish did, the Pope’s longitudinal decree notwithstanding. The 'mess' you refer to occurs when the progeny of Spanish colonialism refuse to accept this and assert that the whole place belongs to them. Well it doesn’t!
But at least Guatemela is prepared to take their dispute to the ICJ and abide by its findings, something Argentina will not do over the Falklands. And why is this? Because they know that they will lose the argument in a properly founded legal jurisdiction. So instead of behaving in a legal civilised manner they indulge in cowardly bullying, backstabbing behaviour, do their best to undermine the Falkland Islanders at every opportunity and place illegal embargos on them. Big brave Argentina! They should try and pick on a nation of their own size.
@3 Shows how much you know. The “mess” was created by Spain. Belize is very popular with us British. Independent, democratic and a member of the Commonwealth. Therefore likely to be able to expect Commonwealth as well as British assistance. The Commonwealth stretches from Canada in the north to Australia in the south.
Jan 27th, 2014 - 01:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Some silly and irresponsible irredentist claims are still far from being buried in so-called Latin America. What these two really need is advice from countries, which were mutilated after WWs I & II, and who seem to be resigned to their fate.
Jan 27th, 2014 - 06:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Philippe
well Belice is sorrounded by spanish speaking America and today it is more Hispanic than British......
Jan 28th, 2014 - 01:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@4
Jan 28th, 2014 - 04:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0When have the British picked on a nation their own size for their colonial expansion? All they, and to be fair us other European nations, did, is pick on bronze-age tribes, scattered native nations, and hunter-gatherers in small islands all over the world.
So when one sees in maps today under an island the following: (U.K), (Fr.), (Nor.), (Ned.), (Sp.), (Por.), it is not something we should be particularly proud of, since we picked on not only minuscule islands, and took them away from their rightful owners (abjuring our claims of beliefs in self-determination in the process), but on people's who had yet to discover iron, when we had gunpowder.
Brave Europeans, I think not, and we need to reflect on these acts, something we have never done really.
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Jan 30th, 2014 - 06:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0The events that you describe happened hundreds of years ago, they are by today’s standards unacceptable; however, times change. In those days even the pope was prepared to involve the Catholic Church in trying to facilitate and police European colonial expansion.
Those days are well and truly over, yet we have Argentina (in 2014) trying to change the names (like UK) on the map to (Arg). If colonisation was bad in 1833, it is simply appalling by today’s standards. The sections of the UN and other Latin American organisations that are paying lip service to Argentina’s attempted colonial expansion should hang their heads in shame.
It is noteworthy the brave Argentina likes to pick on the small Island nations, is that because they think they can't fight back?
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