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Falklands will be making their case before the UN C24 this week
The Falkland Islands and Argentina will be making their case on Thursday in New York before the United Nations Special Decolonization Committee, or C24, an annual event where the Islanders demand recognition of their right to self determination, as clearly expressed in the UN charter for all peoples of the world. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesPointless, they wont listen. Better to take in ukeleles and sing them a satirical song about themselves, that would have more impact.
Jun 21st, 2016 - 08:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Dear C24 Don't forget,
Jun 21st, 2016 - 09:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0the usurpation was just an Argentinean fantasy and that there are 'no' outstanding UN resolutions:
https://www.academia.edu/21721198/Falklands_1833_Usurpation_and_UN_Resolutions
Comprende?
Bolivarian liberators: We salute you!
Jun 21st, 2016 - 10:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0Can anyone- just one will do - Argentine supporter on here - please explain to me -what on earth would be the point of sitting down talking to you about the future of our Homeland and Homes when you have it in black and white in your Constitution that the only end solution Argentina will accept is your full sovereign takeover of our Homeland regardless of what we wish - the people who have lived here for nigh on 200 years.
Jun 21st, 2016 - 11:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Do please get a grip with reality- Democracy- and the 21st Century.
18th century Imperial Colonialism died sometime ago - sad to see it is still fully alive in Argentina.
But if we could only talk about it . . . . . . . with the UK of course.
Jun 21st, 2016 - 02:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They think you're stupid.
Lol
Hidden in a document presented by the Argies to the UN C24 earlier this year is this:
Jun 21st, 2016 - 02:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Despite the illegal British occupation, because the Malvinas Islands, South Georgia Islands and South Sandwich Islands are part of the Argentine national territory,”
http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/71/70
maybe worth pointing out this blatant lie to the C24.
Why bother even dignifying it by going there?
Jun 21st, 2016 - 03:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The C24 is such a pathetic waste of space. Why bother?
As a matter of interest, given that representatives from many/most/all of the C24's little (but amusingly growing since the start of the third decade for the removal of etc etc) list will be in or around the C24 meetings over the last and next week or so, how easy would it be to put together a summit of the governments on the list?
Jun 21st, 2016 - 06:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'd imagine that it wouldn't be too unfeasible for their first order of business to be a vote of no confidence in the C24...
I still don't know why we cant withdraw them from this C24.
Jun 21st, 2016 - 10:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 09- Its a case of we don't want them to win by default and the others only hear one side of the story- and the bullshit one at that! We know we will always loose - but we do get a few abstentions from some of the Commonwealth members and some of them mention US - the people who live here - that we did not get those abstentions before we started going in our own right,as all they ever heard was the Arg story- and if that's all you hear - naturally in time you will believe it.
Jun 22nd, 2016 - 12:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0And the more we can embarrass that outfit by being there - offering to talk ourselves to the Arg Govt folks - and they have to squirm and refuse in public- as to them we do not exist officially - the better.
FI are in it for the long haul - happy to keep doing it for another 20yrs if it end up in a few more abstentions! Every abstention is a vote LESS for the Argies!
The name of the game is Politics! Stinks at times - but we need to play it
9 Briton
Jun 22nd, 2016 - 02:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0They have since January 1986. The UK maintains 'informal cooperation' by attending their meetings without sitting in their chair nor does it make any statements.
Courtesy of 'The Falklands Islands History by Roger Lorton' https://falklandstimeline.wordpress.com
Meanwhile, back in the real world, the judgement in Philippines vs China is due soon - a case that the Philippines have effectively summarised as deciding whether claims of 'historic right' to vast swathes of sea can trump the provisions of UNCLOS.
Jun 22nd, 2016 - 03:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0Funnily enough, one of the arguments that the Philippines made in court was to show that of the hundreds of rocks, shoals, reefs etc that China claims sovereignty over - and cites as evidence of its 'historic' extended sovereign rights over waters hundreds of miles away from any land - only around a dozen had Chinese names until China started inventing them recently. And of that dozen, the majority of 'Chinese' names were merely the English name rendered into Chinese.
Might be time for Argentina to 'discover' a real Spanish name for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
@6:
Jun 22nd, 2016 - 11:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Despite the illegal British occupation, because the Malvinas Islands, South Georgia Islands and South Sandwich Islands are part of the Argentine national territory,”
If the C24 is willing to lie about the Falklands in such a blatant and disrespectful matter, how can they honestly say they're looking at the cases in a fair and unbiased manner?
If the C24 continues to refuse the legitimate inhabitants of the British Falklands their say and act on the truth, the FIG should demand action.
@4:
“what on earth would be the point of sitting down talking to you about the future of our Homeland and Homes when you have it in black and white in your Constitution that the only end solution Argentina will accept is your full sovereign takeover of our Homeland regardless of what we wish”
Not to mention that their constitution was amended under false pretenses - they cannot prove their claims to any of the British Islands.
As long as that fake claim is in their constitution, they can't truthfully say that they want open, honest or good-faith dialogue. Mainly because the fairest outcome of such a dialogue would violate their constitution.
10 & 11
Jun 22nd, 2016 - 12:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0thanks.
Where's that twat Hepatia with the “25 years” bolleaux?
Jun 22nd, 2016 - 09:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The UK will return the Malvinas within 25 years.
Jun 24th, 2016 - 02:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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