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Malvinas Affairs official meets with Decolonization Committee Bureau

Thursday, January 30th 2014 - 05:53 UTC
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Following on an initiative from the standing Bureau of the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization, Argentina's Secretary Related to Malvinas and other South Atlantic Islands Affairs, Daniel Filmus held a meeting with its members on Tuesday at UN headquarters in New York. Read full article

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  • Marcos Alejandro

    We won't rest.
    Britain go home.

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 06:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • inthegutter

    #1 Fine, commit what is left of your national energy to a pathetic and unjust cause. You guys are really pathetic and you will never get the Falklands.

    It seems they should be renamed the colonisation committee as they actively want the Falklands to be colonised and subjugated by Argentina.

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 06:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Bongo

    Marcos,

    Hope you're looking forward to a long and painful eternity.

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 06:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Escoses Doido

    Get a real job filmus, you dogs wanger....

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 06:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    Utter waste of time... Surely the UN has better things to do? Syria anyone? ANYONE?
    “Cristina Fernandez also demanded the de-militarization of the South Atlantic”
    ... whilst negotiating buying 40-year-old military aircraft from Israel...
    http://en.mercopress.com/2014/01/23/argentina-after-israeli-fighter-planes-concern-in-london-and-brasilia-says-defense-expert

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 07:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Beef

    Marcos, we don't care what you think or do. You are a bunch of insignificant, pathetic surrender.

    Go and claim your dollar ration or find a post office to crap in.

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 07:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    Have you read up this bunch? Would you buy a used-toaster (let alone a used-car) from this bunch of ne'er-do-wells and free-loaders?
    Senator Filmus? Fill-my-pockects more like... Anyhoo, I thought he was an ex-Senator appointed to a cushy 'gravy-train' Quango Post?
    Anyone wish to correct me on his current status?
    xx

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 08:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Britworker

    @1
    We won't rest either, look at all the foreign business interest in the Falklands, we are going nowehere mate. You go home and give Argentina back to the Qom-lik!

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 08:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Stoker

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A_2i3TLKT4

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 09:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Lord Ton

    2012 - At the C24 meeting, Sierra Leone tells the other members of the Committee that; “ .. the States Members of the United Nations had
    undertaken to uphold the principle of self-determination of all peoples and nations and had recognized selfdetermination as a prerequisite to the enjoyment of fundamental human rights. Therefore, any solution that
    failed to embrace the aspirations of the Islanders would be inconsistent with the relevant provisions of the Charter of the United Nations and would be tantamount to a denial of their fundamental human rights and a violation of their right to freely determine their political status and pursue their economic, social and cultural development.”

    No official press release from the C24 I note - this story is just from Telam who are about as accurate as Indec
    :-)

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 09:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pete Bog

    @1
    “We won't rest.”

    We know Mark, You won't rest until Argentina has imploded, till you have made total arses of yourself, until your Imperialist dreams have been achieved, until you have laid more unmarked minefields, until you have again booby trapped Stanley's school with IEDs, until you have waged war on the UK again and therefore have the chance to use the massive supply of white flags that Argentina keeps in its military inventory, until your dreams of Argies with shiny biceps swinging hammers, sycles and goose stepping for the motherland singing loud manly songs have set out for the Falklands in rowing boats and signed posters of Filmus to use as sails.........

    but you will always be stopped by the castle wall that is Self Determination.

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 10:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Ahab

    @11 And our submarines, don't forget those.

    And our ships, with their secret weapon, they FLOAT.

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 10:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • niphotos

    Have these silly people nothing else to do ??..oh well better wasting their time talking rubbish and making fools of themselves , silly Argie arseholes ,

    FOREVER FALKLANDS......FOREVER BRITISH !!!!

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 11:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Jay Buchan

    Marcos Alejandro, seeing that you are a nation of European immigrants living in stolen land that was usurped by the Spanish from the native Indians whom your government continues to oppress to this very day, I suggest that you should sod off home back to Europe, your hypocrisy is breath taking

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 11:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • nigelpwsmith

    This sentence made me laugh...

    “The Bureau acknowledged Argentina's permanent disposition to dialogue and to resume sovereignty negotiations under UN mandate.”

    Argentina was NOT open to dialogue when they were offered talks at the Foreign Office with the British Government and the Falkland Islanders.

    Argentina ignored the invitation.

    Maybe it would be better if the Foreign Office arranged with Ban-Ki Moon for a room to be set aside in the UN, with everyone in the C24 committee seated as observers, then invite Argentina to attend and talk with the Falkland Islanders.

    I would be shocked if Argentina turned up.

    I would be equally gob-smacked if the C24 committee took a blind bit of notice of Argentina's refusal to 'negotiate' and continued their rant at imperial colonialism, because without it, they have no justification for existence any more.

    Any way, at the rate Argentina is collapsing, their delegates at the UN will probably ask for political asylum before long!

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 11:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • rupertbrooks0

    “The other representatives belong to Cuba, Syria and Sierra Leone.”
    Yeah right. Cuba and Syria are thuggish dictatorships and Sierra Leone has repeatedly supported the Falklands right of self determination.

    Mr. Chairman,
    Accordingly, today, we again restate the position we have repeatedly expressed before this Committee, that this dispute between the Governments of Argentina and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands should be resolved through peaceful dialogue and negotiated settlement. We remain committed to that view and urge the need for the earnest resumption of bilateral negotiations on the matter, as well as the need for all parties concerned to engage with the Committee as required.

    We reiterate our support for the Islanders basic human right – their rights to self-determination and also call upon this Committee to continue to engage all parties concerned in this process and to recognize that failure to respect the wishes of the Islanders is tantamount to a denial of their fundamental human rights and violation of their rights to freely determine their political, economic, social and cultural status.
    Permanent Mission of the Republic of Sierra Leone to the United Nations

    Statement By Her Excellency Mrs. Rasie Kargbo
    Ambassador & Deputy Permanent Representative
    Before the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples
    On the Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas)

    New York, 21st June, 2011

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 11:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    We won't rest.
    Britain go home.

    So ante British and a total hypercrit

    What abt the foreign military you have on argentine soil,
    The foreign base, [American I believe]

    Two faced or what..

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 11:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • HansNiesund

    @1

    Thanks, Marcos, it probably does no harm to be continually reminding us all of the depth of your neurosis.

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 12:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • M_of_FI

    @1 - Marcos

    I am home. I was born here. I was raised and educated in the islands. I work in the islands. I will live the rest of my life on these islands, and I am pretty certain I will be laid to rest of these islands. Same as the 6 generations of my family before me.

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 12:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Captain Poppy

    “On Tuesday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he had spoken to Cuban leadership and pressed them on human rights, free expression and freedom of assembly. We want the Falklands. Ban Ki then responded......you fuck off, the don't you you ”lot”

    news.yahoo.com/latam-leaders-declare-region-39-zone-peace-39-170423412.html

    Then Castro responded.......fuck off Ban Ki, what does human rights, free expression and freedom of assembly have to do with out Spanish only peace zone?

    What a bunch of monkeys playing adults. Cuba seems to be to role model for the rest of Latin America. I only hope Chile, Colombia. Mexico and Paraguay can manage to stay out of the sludge that the Bolivarian commies manage to have to keep their people poor and repressed.

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 12:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    @1 WE won't rest either.
    That's why we have 1500 combat troops, 4 superior combat aircraft and a permanent naval presence on or around the Islands. We also have additional visiting naval forces. Some of them you don't even see. Could there be SEVEN nuclear-powered submarines off your coast RIGHT NOW? In particular, the Royal Marines don't “like” you. Then there's the naval presence 7,000 miles away. They don't need to get any closer. And the Falklanders are “home”. Despite all your “attempts” you can do NOTHING. Thanks for reminding us. Expecting any change in the next 500 years? Well, there might be. Best option is that the Falkland Islands will become independent. NOTHING will stop that.

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 01:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • AzaUK

    @1 We are home. Argentina stay home

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 01:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Optimus_Princeps

    More political stunts, and creating useless government committees. They would be better off creating an Ice Cream of the Month Club.

    The K's followers have already been appeased enough. Those that have been indoctrinated have been detached from reality. The other 70% are already tired of it.

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 01:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GFace

    Oh look.... the Minister for German UNoccupied Poland is doing something... How cute. Maybe he can get interpol to issue arrests warrants for them for the six felonies before breakfast of his choice.

    Good luck in getting the GA, told them the Islanders have the right to self-determination, and SC, who told them to get out the last time they had to say something, and of course the ICJ to give the free people of the Falklands to unrepentant fascists like him.

    @15.. I would pay good money to see how fast the Argentines would run as soon as the big scary Dick and Jan were spotted in the building.

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 02:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • A_Voice

    Got to agree ...that Jan's face would scare me, that's got to be the result of inbreeding, it could crack walnuts....
    I'm sure that when she was born the doctor slapped her mother....

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 03:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • golfcronie

    @25
    The same could be said of you, but I think you were dropped on your head when you struggled to get out.

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 05:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Andy65

    @Marcos Alejandro ,still supporting your shitty homeland while squatting in London???

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 06:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brit Bob

    I think that it is about time that Ban Ki-Moon did a bit more.

    General Assembly Resolution 68/88, dated 11th December 2013, paragraph 11 states, 'Requests the Secretary-General to continue, through all means at his disposal, to inform world public opinion of any activity that affects the exercise of the right of peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories to self-determination in conformity with the Charter and General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV).'

    Clearly, this so-called committee would fall into this category.

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 07:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    CFK will get her up-commence sooner or later,

    probably get beaten by the likes of Fiji, lol

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 07:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    Is Filmus the new “First Man” (after countless many) for TMBOA?

    How else has he come by this “non-job”?

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 08:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    “Malvinas Affairs official meets with Decolonization Committee Bureau”

    and how is that working out for you, by the way?

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 09:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • LEPRecon

    @29 Briton

    Fijians are notoriously fierce fighters. They are warriors. Many of these warriors have joined the British Army. They make excellent soldiers, fierce, brave, resilient and they don't give up. They are usually quite big, rugby playing types, almost as broad as they are tall.

    In the past the Fijians ate their enemies, crushing their skulls in.

    I remember in 1982 the Argentines were terrified of the Gurkha's reputation. I wonder how much more terrified they'd be of Fijians, who are twice as big as a Gurkha, and might eat them after they're dead? ;)

    Jan 30th, 2014 - 10:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • St.John

    Daniel Filmus held a meeting with the members of Decolonization Committee Bureau.

    I wonder how many of the members couldn't find their wallets after the meeting?

    Jan 31st, 2014 - 02:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    32 LEPRecon
    In the past the Fijians ate their enemies, crushing their skulls in.

    precisely..
    and cfk would run a mile .

    Jan 31st, 2014 - 11:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Gordo1

    “Discredited and useless committee meets desperate Argentine representatives” should be the heading for this non-event!

    Don't they realise how the civilised world is laughing at them? Will the real Argentina please stand up and be acknowledged NOT this lot of nincompoops!

    Jan 31st, 2014 - 02:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    CFK wont take it to the ICJ as she would lose,
    and she knows it,

    why cant we force Argentina to the ICJ, why...

    Jan 31st, 2014 - 06:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pete Bog

    “discussed the importance on complying with UN resolutions referred to the Falklands/Malvinas issue, and implementing dialogue as the only instrument to resolve the sovereignty dispute.”

    According to the wording of the resolutions as opposed to the Argentine, invented versions, the UK have complied with them.

    In none of them does it say that sovereignty must be transferred to Argentina.

    Pity they can't get someone to actually read the resolutions....

    Jan 31st, 2014 - 08:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • reality check

    Think we can expect regular visits from them to the C24.

    I suggest that they be given office space at the UN, along with the thousands of other useless twats in that building.

    Jan 31st, 2014 - 09:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    @35
    Agree absolutely!
    Losers!

    Jan 31st, 2014 - 10:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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