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  Brit Bob

  A host of other countries from South America and Africa as well as China, Russia and Iran are included in the Committee. (United Nations and Decolonisation, UN C24 Decolonisation Committee, Members). Many of the countries of the committee have questionable track records on human rights and 19 of the 29 countries in the committee have been ranked as being ‘not free’ or ‘partly free’ by the ‘Freedom in the World’ Survey (Freedom House, Public Annual Records Since 1973 on 195 Countries, Freedom in the World List ).

  Jun 22nd, 2021 - 02:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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  Liberato

  Brit Bob, Thats your excuse to discredit them. But they could easilly say the same about you: Guantanamo?, The Iraq war made to find weapons that were never found killing 1 millon of iraquians civilians in the process?, The british war crimes?.....
  I still remember Tony Blair still trying to convince the british that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when all the world already knew it was a lie. He later talked about the importance of the freedom for the Iraq People, without remembering of course who created and armed Saddam in the first place.
  But, its just a thought.
  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/government-army-child-murder-sexual-abuse-british-troops-afghanistan-iraq-a9206056.html
  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/government-army-child-murder-sexual-abuse-british-troops-afghanistan-iraq-a9206056.html
  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/government-army-child-murder-sexual-abuse-british-troops-afghanistan-iraq-a9206056.html

  Jun 22nd, 2021 - 03:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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  Brit Bob

  It's not my excuse to discredit them - it's facts. An uncomfortable truth.

  Jun 22nd, 2021 - 03:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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  Argentine citizen

  In the case of
  the Falklands, the current population has its origin not in the occupation of a terra
  nullius but in an armed aggression by the United Kingdom that displaces the Argentine authority from the islands and expels its inhabitants to replace them with a
  foreign population, imported from Great Britain.
  After the war of 82, the English story was modified focusing rather on the supposed “right to self-determination”, Of course, not putting this to evaluation before an international court or an arbitral tribunal (because they would lose).
  The only thing we know in these last 200 years is that Great Britain changed its version of history several times, while Argentina maintains the same claim.
  
  The Falkland Islands are considered an integral part of Argentine territory, under occupation by an invading power.
  
  We consider having precedents to prove this before an international court. Mainly we can prove that the invasion of 1833 is not an isolated case, but that it is coupled with the attempted invasion in Buenos Aires in 1807 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_invasions_of_the_River_Plate)
  
  During which the United Kingdom occupied Buenos Aires for 6 months trying to colonize it as they later did in the Falklands.
  and he cared very little about the right of self-determination, which in that case if it was real.
  
  Of course we are not stupid and we understand that this UN thing is a circus, and that the world is still ruled by arms.
  
  We only make sure to keep the sovereignty claim open, so that your children, grandchildren and future generations are born under the shadow of a nation that maintains an open sovereignty dispute.
  
  And with the risk of being under constant threat forever, until the conditions of international power change one day. Which may be 50, 500, or a thousand years from now.

  Jun 24th, 2021 - 12:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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