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Argentina and UK agree on new stage of Humanitarian Plan to identify fallen combatants in the Falklands

Friday, September 4th 2020 - 09:50 UTC
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UK and Argentina exchanged notes on Thursday in order to advance to a new stage in the Humanitarian Project Plan, which between 2017 and 2019 enabled the identification of 115 Argentine soldiers who died in the Falkland Islands during the 1982 conflict. Read full article

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  • Billy Hayes

    You say you are a selfdeterminated people but the ambassador from a monarchy 12kms away is talking for you at the table where your interests are not represented....anyone can say that this pretended selfdetermination in this conditions is a bad joke.

    Sep 04th, 2020 - 09:12 am - Link - Report abuse -4
  • FitzRoy

    “...we believe that humanitarian issues take priority over any political issue.” What an interesting turn of phrase, in light of recent events.....

    Sep 04th, 2020 - 09:19 am - Link - Report abuse +1
  • Dirk Dikkler

    @ “Billy Hayes”, Please remember that the Argentine Government does not recognise the Falkland Islands Government ! and this is supposed to be a Humanitarian issue so Politics is Off the agenda.

    Sep 04th, 2020 - 09:55 am - Link - Report abuse +1
  • Billy Hayes

    Right dirk...so this is showing that argentina is the key for kelper nation to have their own voice at south atlantic issues (humanitarian or not)...without a voice selfdetermination is a bleff.

    Sep 04th, 2020 - 10:15 am - Link - Report abuse -4
  • Islander1

    Billy- Id be more carefull in what you say. The exhumation and DNA work on the grave in question will only happen IF FI Govt approves and co-operation is agreed on the ground - it is local people here who do the exhumation operation etc for the scientists to examine.
    Currently local opinion is pretty divided on wether to allow this to continue after your Govt has basically said it will not respect and continue with the 2016 Communications Agreement- that the original main DNA word was a part of.
    Your Chrissy has to learn that she cannot pick to accept bits of a signed Agreement- you either have it all- or None.

    Sep 04th, 2020 - 10:19 am - Link - Report abuse +5
  • Billy Hayes

    UK have final word my dear islander, always; FIG only acts as a municipal goverment in the facts, in this matter and others related to south atlantic.-
    About the exhumation, only one grave is missing to complete the task; a None path is a bad idea for the future of kelper nation.

    Sep 04th, 2020 - 11:59 am - Link - Report abuse -10
  • Islander1

    Billy- You really do not get it at all. UK has responsibility for Foreign Affairs and defence- - and to be able to advise the UN that our Govt operates in a free democratic and legal manner observing all the UN principles as per the Charter on democratic Govt etc.
    UK has not and cannot order people here to do this or that! We moved on years ago from the type of Colonialism that Argentina wants to impose on us!
    Anyway it now moves to the ICRC- and for them to study and then mostly Arg and a bit from UK to agree to fund- and that negotiation will take at a guess 6 months or so, And by then your“ Lady in Charge”,s attitudes to Latam restarting will have been resolved whichever way- so we will see.

    Sep 04th, 2020 - 12:12 pm - Link - Report abuse +5
  • Billy Hayes

    Islander, I encourage you to read your constitution; you will find a surprise; UK have final word in all matters and not only in foreing affairs or defence.

    Sep 04th, 2020 - 12:36 pm - Link - Report abuse -6
  • Brasileiro

    Ask China and Russia for help. Regain! And let them cry at the UN or wherever they want!

    Just don't surrender!

    We solve the rest.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTjG_eoH8vc&list=FLmXPTu1f8AdGlizWNiASx2A&index=15

    Sep 04th, 2020 - 01:25 pm - Link - Report abuse -4
  • darragh

    Bras

    talking crap (in a sort of English) again I see

    Billy Hayes (aka Think sock-puppet)

    also talking bollocks of the first order.

    Easy for you to criticise but can't come up with a solution that the Falkland Islanders would prefer to the status quo - that's what really gets your goat isn't it? the fact that they hate your guts.

    Sep 04th, 2020 - 02:46 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
  • Billy Hayes

    Sorry Darragh, but I have talked about a posible solution here several times. I will repeat to you.-

    Kelper Nation negotiate with Argentina the terms of their selfdermination and in exchange KN ask UK to leave South Atlantic and Argentina abandon all her sovereingty claims.

    Sep 04th, 2020 - 03:14 pm - Link - Report abuse -6
  • Brasileiro

    Thank you Hayes!

    Hayes, you are more of a slave to the Côroa!

    You gained a friend, I am also a slave to the Republic.

    Darragh is below this condition.

    Sep 04th, 2020 - 03:20 pm - Link - Report abuse -5
  • Dirk Dikkler

    @ “Billy Hayes”, I have already told You that Argentina does Not Recognise the Falkland Island Government if the Islanders sat down at a Table Argentina would Not show up as they reckon it would Legitimise the Falklanders and there Government.

    Sep 04th, 2020 - 04:08 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
  • Pugol-H

    Billy Hayes
    The Islanders have the final say, simple as that.

    I told you before, self-determination means, being able to decide your own future, free from outside influence.

    The Kelpers don’t have to negotiate with anyone, least of all Argentina.

    The S. Atlantic/Antarctic has been British Territory since long before Argentina existed in any form never mind overran Patagonia and TDF, to reach the S. Atlantic and become our neighbours.

    It is not the British who are “the alien entity at South Atlantic”, in that part of the world, it is you conquistadores criollos, Argy Planters.

    Argentina has no history, real presence or valid claims to the S. Atlantic/Antarctic, you’re not “a player” there, at best a distant bystander.

    https://www.clarin.com/opinion/malvinas--llaga-abierta-persiste-indiferencia-huellas-pasado_0_7ZveGwBJ.html

    An interesting read, the author concludes:

    Argentina parece una lejana comarca en el inconciente de esta sociedad multiétnica. En caso de tener la fortuna de pisar este suelo soñado, todo indica que nos queda reservado apenas un rol secundario, como meros observadores de un universo distante.

    Just about covers it.

    Sep 04th, 2020 - 04:22 pm - Link - Report abuse +5
  • Brasileiro

    Very good. We only have to know what legacy 3,000 pirate criollos left so that the whole of Antarctica belonged to them forever.

    FAKE!

    Sep 04th, 2020 - 04:28 pm - Link - Report abuse -5
  • Judge Jose

    Bras, you are talking complete and utter rubbish, eveything Pugol said is fact,
    Billy H , negotiations are pointless, Argentina wants the islands that they have never had,
    Vernet asked the British permission to go to the Falklands., he was allowed on the understanding that he abided by UK laws, all these facts are recorded not just in the UK, but in France and Spain to,
    The islanders and only the islanders will decide their future,

    Sep 04th, 2020 - 04:39 pm - Link - Report abuse +3
  • Brasileiro

    There is no confusion. The inhabitants want to keep the good things from belonging to the Empire. But, they do not want to accept the bad things of the Republic.

    REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA

    Sep 04th, 2020 - 04:44 pm - Link - Report abuse -7
  • Pugol-H

    “The inhabitants want to keep the good things from belonging to the Empire.”

    You mean like you Portuguese settlers keeping hold of Brazil.

    Sep 04th, 2020 - 04:55 pm - Link - Report abuse +3
  • Brasileiro

    Portugueses? Poucos. A maioria é pouco. Ainda não conseguimos superar o pouco que nós somos.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3wKzyIN1yk&list=RDGMEMQ1dJ7wXfLlqCjwV0xfSNbAVMYQHsXMglC9A&index=2

    Sep 04th, 2020 - 05:06 pm - Link - Report abuse -4
  • Islander1

    Billy- I do know our Constitition- as I said earlier- as we are not independent UK is responsible to the Un to ensure good democratic uncorrupt Govt happens in the Islands- that is why yes- in extremis(as Uk did some years ago in Turks & Caicos)- UK can take over if needed to fuilfill the UN requirements. But it has not and never would happen - unless we ourselves decide to elect a bunch of bent crooks as MLAS- and then we would deserve it
    Its a bit like in the UK where the Queen- in theory -has the legal right to overrule Parliament and refuse to allow a Law etc. But in practise all know she never would-unless maybe if the elected PrimeMinister and his cabinet started acting very badly and unlawfully- and they would probabaly get voted out at the next election anyway if that were to happen!
    Sorry - I do not pay my taxes to UK and have full voting rights in the electe Govt that them decides 100% how to spend those taxes and the tax income it collects from everywhere else. We do have our own Laws- where they need to have a practical difference from UK Law- in many other cases- UK L:aw applies- simply because it is much simpler and more efficient than rewriting thousands of legal papers.

    Sep 04th, 2020 - 05:23 pm - Link - Report abuse +5
  • Pugol-H

    Brasileiro
    Who do you think you are kidding, Nabo.

    https://www.indexmundi.com/brazil/ethnic_groups.html

    “white 47.7%, mulatto (mixed white and black) 43.1%, black 7.6%, Asian 1.1%, indigenous 0.4% (2010 est.)”

    Fool.

    Sep 04th, 2020 - 05:32 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
  • Brasileiro

    Caramba! Racista do Caralho!

    Sep 04th, 2020 - 05:36 pm - Link - Report abuse -4
  • Pugol-H

    Indian murdering, land stealing, Planter Bastard.

    Sep 04th, 2020 - 05:45 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
  • Brasileiro

    Nós, minha geração, fará o possível e impossível para arrebentar o que você representa.

    Sep 04th, 2020 - 06:03 pm - Link - Report abuse -2
  • Think

    Well....

    - At least we can all agree 'bout the sweetness of Argentina and UK agreeing on the next and final stage of our joint humanitarian work to identify Argie fallen combatants in them Malvinas/Falklands..., I Think...

    Sep 04th, 2020 - 08:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pugol-H

    Brasileiro
    Fool, you are what you represent, an Indian Murdering, land stealing, Planter Bastard.

    Do not even try and deny the rights of the peoples of the S. Atlantic to decide their own future, unlike Atahualpa or the Mapuche, the British have more than just sticks and stones with which to defend their territory.

    When the British first arrived in the region it was entirely uninhabited, unlike S. America, you Indian murdering Planter Bastard.

    Arm the Natives, one planter, one bullet.

    Get rid of you Shits, once and for all.

    Dear Diary
    Unbelievable, would you Adam and Eve it, Stink, actually said something I can agree with. Although it is the Falklands/Malvinas and the FIG also had to agree.

    I need a drink.

    Sep 04th, 2020 - 10:59 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
  • Zaczac121

    For once I’d like to agree with Think, I think humanitarian work needs to be done for the betterment of everyone, no matter what culture, race or nationality, this does mean as well we all have to respect the decisions people of the world decide, even if you don’t like it. This doubly means about the Falklands as a whole, in the end the majority of people in S.America are descended from colonists so to determine what should happen should be with the people who live there.

    Sep 05th, 2020 - 11:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • F. Emanuel Longo

    Greetings, normally Argentina extends its hand and holds a dagger in the other, I mean that in one way or another it wants to enter the FlakFalkland Islands and any excuse is good. Although Argentina does not formally admit it is a communist nation, they are playing a dangerous game for the world in ideological terms. They want to obtain the islands to win land for their children of lies. As advice, I would tell the islanders to be united and to be very cautious about the decisions and deals that involve them with Argentina and to accept the help that the UK can provide. Argentina is playing low along with other nations with similar retrograde ideals.

    Sep 05th, 2020 - 07:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    TWIMC...

    Poster just above writes...:
    ***“Although ARGENTINA does not formally admit it IS A COMMUNIST NATION, they are playing a dangerous game for the world in ideological terms. They want to obtain the islands to win land for their CHILDREN OF LIES...”***

    WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT...!?!?!?

    Well... Mercopress's Malvinas/Falklands commentaries section is renowned for atracting Nostalgic Colonial Engrish/Anglo Turnips...
    It seems that now it also attracts QAnons...!
    What''s next...? Flat Earthers...?

    Sep 05th, 2020 - 08:33 pm - Link - Report abuse -1
  • F. Emanuel Longo

    Unfortunately my DNI says that I have Argentine nationality, therefore I can speak from my own experience and knowing what is being plotted based on lies and red confusion. The subject of the Falkland Islands is not far from the interest of the world, that is to say, everything has to do with everything. If your cognitive abilities do not understand that point of view it is not my fault, rather it is yours. The truth is that the Argentine nation is not interested in the islands being independent, they only want to take them by ideological power.

    Sep 05th, 2020 - 09:23 pm - Link - Report abuse -1
  • Think

    Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

    An Anticommunist “Illuminati” with Argie citizenship and local experiences.., huhhhh...?
    Before i “gasto más pólvora en chimangos”..., I would like to know if you even speak Spanish...
    A simple..., coherent and correct translation in Argentino would suffice... What about translating a few of your own words from above...?
    Try these ones...:
    - ***“The subject of the Falkland Islands is not far from the interest of the world, that is to say, everything has to do with everything. If your cognitive abilities do not understand that point of view it is not my fault, rather it is yours.”***

    Capisce...?

    Sep 05th, 2020 - 09:48 pm - Link - Report abuse -1
  • F. Emanuel Longo

    Are you trying to attack me sensitively? You are obviously the child of a single mother or a sleeping father. Now, returning to the issue of the Falkland Islands, I would tell the backward Argentine majority to leave the islanders alone. That retrograde Argentine majority cannot advance with its own land and intends to take another. The truth is that most and those who think similar are stupid.

    Sep 06th, 2020 - 01:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    Juppppp....

    Jusr as I thought...

    Another Walrer Mitty personage...

    This time an Antiargie/Anticommunist/QAnon Illuminati..., who alleges being an Argie citizenship with local Argie experiences...' but doesn't speak a iota of Spanish....!?!

    As your president says..., lad: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqpzk-qGxMU
    Have a nice life...
    Rest me case...

    Sep 06th, 2020 - 05:06 am - Link - Report abuse -1
  • F. Emanuel Longo

    Ahahah! Thanks for the fun! You Reds love to be angry, it's good that someone has to take care of that. The truth is of little interest to me in what Alberto says, I do not feel represented by a pseudo-communist, much less by lovers of lies. Thank you, I was trying to rest, you don't have to tell me. Thank you! Stop messing up the world. Regards!

    Sep 06th, 2020 - 06:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Guillote

    Islander1/timlander1
    I think that what is going to happen with this issue is going to be decided between UK and Argentina and at the end you will say that it is your decision.
    am i wrong?

    Sep 08th, 2020 - 03:00 am - Link - Report abuse -1
  • Roger Lorton

    Gullible thinks ....... this seems unlikely.

    Sep 08th, 2020 - 05:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    Think thinks Guillote thinks right...
    This issue has been decided years ago between the UK, the ICRC and Argentina with them Engrish Kelpers nodding politely and manning the excavators...
    Capisce...?

    Sep 08th, 2020 - 11:25 am - Link - Report abuse -1
  • F. Emanuel Longo

    There is nothing to think about when “everything is thought”, but the sure thing is that the connections have to be open, each “one” from their side.

    Sep 08th, 2020 - 09:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Guillote

    “Islander1
    Billy- Id be more carefull in what you say. The exhumation and DNA work on the grave in question will only happen IF FI Govt approves and co-operation is agreed on the ground - it is local people here who do the exhumation operation etc for the scientists to examine.
    Currently local opinion is pretty divided on wether to allow this to continue after your Govt has basically said it will not respect and continue with the 2016 Communications Agreement- that the original main DNA word was a part of.
    Your Chrissy has to learn that she cannot pick to accept bits of a signed Agreement- you either have it all- or None.”
    “Islander1/timlander1
    I think that what is going to happen with this issue is going to be decided between UK and Argentina and at the end you will say that it is your decision.
    am i wrong?”
    “self-proclaimed researcher”, it is a matter of time to see who is right ... wait
    and they will say that it was their decision .... but I can be wrong.
    es cuestion de tiempo esperar a que digan que ellos decidieron lo que va a pasar.

    Sep 09th, 2020 - 04:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Roger Lorton

    Thunk - nodding politely and then informing the ICRC of the travel restrictions and quarantine arrangements. No do, no land ;-)

    Get it?

    Gullible? You can be wrong? Confucius he say, when in hole - stop digging ;-)

    Just for the record, and just sayin' - the Concise History achieved 8,664 downloads in 6 months on Tuesday.

    And they said I couldn't give it away Hah!

    Sep 09th, 2020 - 05:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    Nobody is in a hurry 'bout this 38 years auld case..., copper...
    The ICRC, the DesUk and Argieland can wait...
    Capisce...?

    Sep 09th, 2020 - 03:27 pm - Link - Report abuse -1
  • Pugol-H

    Roger Lorton
    Did he not also say “to have knowledge and not to think is a waste, however thinking without knowledge is dangerous?

    Sep 10th, 2020 - 04:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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