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Ecuador's Lasso Mendoza elected chair of the 2014 Decolonization Committee
Ecuador' Xavier Lasso Mendoza was elected by 'acclamation' as Chair of the 2014 session of the Special Committee on Decolonization together with Rodolfo Reyes Rodríguez (Cuba), Vandi Chidi Minah (Sierra Leone) and Desra Percaya (Indonesia), as Vice-Chairs, and Bashar Ja’afari (Syria), as Rapporteur, according to the UN release. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesA Latino in charge at the C24, backed up by another latino..and Sierra Leone, indonesia and Syria!!!!
Mar 12th, 2014 - 09:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0Poor Sierra Leone being lumbered with that lot.
Surely Argentina should not be involved in approving the scope of work as it has a vested interest.
The headline should read “Hispanics in usurped land head decolonisation committee and fail to see massive irony”.
Mar 12th, 2014 - 09:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0Many things wrong at the C24. Here's the latest. This is the THIRD Ecuadorian in a row to hold the chair. Seems to me that if you want “fairness”, any member country of the committee waits for, say, five years before it gets another chance. And what is Syria doing there? It's in the process of REPRESSION!
Mar 12th, 2014 - 09:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0Nice to a native american Indian heading this (not) - total farce
Mar 12th, 2014 - 10:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0An anachronism whose meaningful purpose died thirty years ago and which must now dictate to little states with no interest in what it has to offer in order to justify its worthless existence.
Mar 12th, 2014 - 12:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#5
Mar 12th, 2014 - 12:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Is there any reason that the UK cannot have a seat on the committee?
Lots of freebie trips including one to Fiji. I want to be the UK delegate
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Of course, I forgot, you must be of a Spanish background and hate the UK WITH A PASSION, compounded with a burning jealousy and a giant inferiority complex which is well deserved.
http://pol-check.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/is-un-decolonization-committee-failing.html
Really - how on earth can this committee ever be taken seriously! Looks like closed shop!
Mar 12th, 2014 - 01:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#6
Mar 12th, 2014 - 01:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is quite ironic that so many of the countries are from Latin America which is made up of countries where the land was stolen from native peoples in the first place.
The UN C24 Held 'in Camera' Talks to Speed Up Delisting Work
Mar 12th, 2014 - 03:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0'UN Chief's are increasing pressure for the movement to bring to a close the process of decolonising the remaining 17 territories on its list - including Gibraltar.
For the first time in many years, the UN decolonisation unit held several meetings with each of the administering powers - the UK, France, New Zealand, USA - as well as various other 'stakeholders' in order to identify the next steps in the decolonisation process.'
(Taken from the Gibraltar Chronicle 11th March 2014).
@3 yer seems very odd if this were the Ukraine they would have had a big riot and thrown them out of the country with claims of corruption lol.
Mar 12th, 2014 - 05:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0which in this case could be true...
Jobs for the boys - the nation members of C24 are so inept that the UN management feels sorry for them and thus throws them a few “bones” to keep them on the ball.
Mar 12th, 2014 - 07:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I really do think this committee should be disbanded at the earliest opportunity as it has never achieved anything - except the emission of meaningless hot air.
@11, Gordo1....well put...couldn't agree more.
Mar 12th, 2014 - 07:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As for Argentina being invited, they're only there as observers - so they need to keep their traps shut.
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Mar 12th, 2014 - 07:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This committee has ZERO utility. A total toss of money down the drain.
Mar 12th, 2014 - 08:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Everybody in this world wants f***ing everything, an impossibility to deliver on, and we have money to throw away like this?
Does anybody know what the total costs per year are to run this committee?
Perhaps the value in this expenditure is that it shows clearly that sometimes “upper class intellectuals” in humanity are really only “blithering morons out for a buck”.
So, by having such an example so strongly in front of us, we might realize a huge savings by not automatically giving a lot of weight to the opinions of any “intellectual group” when in reality they might only be neanderthal retards.
Another UN body more akin to a jolly boys outing to put on the ignore list.
Mar 12th, 2014 - 09:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0One trusts that this Special Committee shall recall its Terms of Reference provided to it in UN General Assembly 1654 (XVI) “The situation with regard to the implementation of the Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples”
Mar 13th, 2014 - 12:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0To wit, the Special Committee is requested to examine the application of the Declaration, to make suggestions and recommendations on the progress and extent of the implementation of the Declaration, and to report to the General Assembly
In the context of the Non-Self-Governing Territory of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) this means the Special Commitee must report to the General Assembly the progress of Great Britain in implementing UN Resolution 1514(XV) and Article 73 in order to free the people of the Falkland Islands from the rule of the London metropole through its British Crown Colony government and to enable the free self-determination of the people of the Falkland Islands
Maybe that's too much to ask, but one lives in hope of the Special Committee actually fulfilling its remit correctly for the first time
Time shall tell, but past performance suggests the Special Committee Chair shall reveal his partiality and overt bias and act to subvert the UN Charter and purpose of the Special Committee in order to support the political claims and propaganda of his Argentine sponsors
@16 Domingo
Mar 13th, 2014 - 08:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0You say ”In the context of the Non-Self-Governing Territory of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) ”.
You seem NOT to be aware that the Falklands(Malvinas, if you wish) ARE a Self Governing Territory e.g. the Falklands are already “free from the rule of the London metropole through its British Crown Colony government and to enable the free self-determination of the people of the Falkland Islands”.
Please get up to date with events!
@17 Gordo01 you beat me to it.
Mar 13th, 2014 - 11:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0“and to enable the free self-determination of the people of the Falkland Islands”.
Now surely the referendum last year showed clearly what the will of the Falkland islands people is.
They do not want to be decolanised or colanised by Argentina, but wish to remain under British protection.
@18 zathras
Mar 13th, 2014 - 02:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There are some trolls around who apparently don't keep up to date with developments in the real world. They inhabit a world where there is an abundance of fairy stories, lies, myths and false interpretations of historical events which enable them to fall into the self deception that Argentina is always right.
There is only one word for them - “boludos”!
@1, Implanted mostly white (culturally European -- not certainly not tribal first nation), christian (not animist or tribalist, etc.), genocidal (or at least dancing on a mass grave cleared by fellow white christians from which they happily wag their own mostly white christian fingers from AND claim the right to do so), hypocritical imperialists (denying the right of self-determination to people they want to see forcibly annexed against their orgasmically explicit will by fellow white christian european implants) running a “de”colonization committee. And of course with Indonesia and its history of favoring self-determination in places like Timor-Leste.
Mar 13th, 2014 - 02:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Right.
Keep that credibility going in the same direction as it's been going in, C24. And the NGSTs that get the C24's dander up the most will carry on working collegially and colaboratively with their sponsor governments towards arrangements by mutual consent. Closer to self-determing models than the C24 would dare take you.
@17/18/19. Lol, no worries. I am fully aware of the status of the Falkland Islanders; I am simply suggesting the Decolonization Committee should report to the General Assembly of the United Nations Fourth Committee in accordance with its terms of reference; no more, no less
Mar 13th, 2014 - 11:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0However, lamentably, you are incorrect: The Falkland Islands are listed as a Non-Self-Governing-Territory at the U.N. by Great Britain, who is the Administrating Country
Now, I'd politely suggest that prior to the next C24-Fourth Committee review Great Britain should focus on reporting in full detail all implementations of the measures necessary that were taken to implement the full of the Declaration and Article 73 in the NSGT of the Falkland Islands
The FIG representatives should then confirm that all measures have been so implemented so that the FIG is a Self-Governing Territory
Great Britain should declare the Falkland Islands delisted from the C24 list of Non-Self-Governing-Territories
Then both Great Britain in its last act as the Administrating Country should declare the end of its Administration of Implementation of the Declaration because the people of the Falkland Islands are now a Self-Governing Territory
Finally, as a result of the successful implementation of the Declaration in the Falkland Islands both Great Britain and the FIG should announce they shall no longer participate in C24 or Fourth Committee on implementation of the declaration because it is completed for the territory of the Falkland Islands
Then walk away from this forum for good and never return
You never know, it could well work... substantiating compliance with evidence and then declining further discussion on the grounds that full compliance has been achieved
It's time to put an end to the matter in terms of the C24 and Fourth Committee, I say: Do it!
“Ecuador' Xavier Lasso Mendoza was elected by 'acclamation”
Mar 14th, 2014 - 12:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0This is not impartial so no need for the UK to take any notice of what he says.
With Syria on board this committee is an irrelevant laughing stock and a joke-more hot air, no action.
In fact there was more effect when the Jackass team used an L39 jet engine to blow Tomatoes in someone's face.
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