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Falklands receives visit of US Congressmen's chief of staff and advisors
A delegation from the United States including a Chief of Staff for a Congressman and a Foreign Policy Adviser in the office of a senator will arrive in the Falkland Islands on Friday October 27 leaving November 3. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules''Certainly, we will never alter our view that a people must ultimately determine their own future and certainly we mean this in regard to the people on the Falklands'' Ronald Reagan (Reagan -Thatcher White House Communication Nov 4 1982, para 2).
Oct 26th, 2018 - 09:54 am - Link - Report abuse +1Interesting. I wonder if ...........
Oct 26th, 2018 - 10:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 02017 - December 7th, in America, US Representatives Mario Diaz-Balart, George Holding and Derek Kilmer introduce a resolution into the 115th Congress (H. Res. 650) for the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
“Recognising the results of the free and fair elections for the new Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Falkland Islands held on November 9, 2017.
Whereas the United States supports the principles of democratic processes across the world;
Whereas the Falkland Islands referendum of March 2013 clearly set out the wishes of the
Islanders, when 99.8 percent of those who voted chose to maintain their status as an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom;
Whereas the people of the Falkland Islands have the right to decide their own future as
enshrined in the United Nations Charter and in Article One of the two United Nations Covenants on Human Rights, by which they freely determine their political status and pursue their economic, social, and cultural development free from intimidation and harassment;
Whereas it is the obligation of countries to respect the legally binding principle of self-determination;
Whereas the Falkland Islands’ election on November 9, 2017, is an expression of that principle of self-determination; and
Whereas the United Kingdom is a loyal ally that has stood by the United States for over a
century: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the House of Representatives—
(1) welcomes the free, fair, and democratic elections of the Falkland Islands;
(2) acknowledges that only the people of the Falkland Islands can determine the future of
the Falkland Islands; and
(3) recognizes the United Kingdom’s sovereignty over the Falkland Islands for as long as
the Islands desire to remain a self-governing Overseas
As far as I am aware this is draft-Resolution still open.
It will remain open until the next Congressional elections.
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