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Latin American and Caribbean parliament call for Falklands' sovereignty talks with UK

Saturday, February 12th 2022 - 10:06 UTC
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The Latin American and Caribbean Parliament, (Parlatino) met this week in Panama and called on the international community to support Argentina's request for a resumption of Falkland/Malvinas Islands sovereignty talks with the UK. The issue addressed was the “Malvinas Question, a Latin American cause”. Read full article

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  • Tænk

    TATEPIMC*...

    Good news for the South Atlantic...
    Meanwhile, in the Indian Ocean...:
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-60349040

    * (To All Them Engrish Pirates It May Concern...)

    Capisce...?

    Feb 12th, 2022 - 11:07 am - Link - Report abuse -8
  • Steve Potts

    Such stupidity:

    “Argentinian Sovereignty over the Malivinas is not negotiable. That is the starting point of negotiation.” (Dante Caputo, Argentine Foreign Minister, 13 November, 1983. Quoted in House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, 1983-4, Report, Vol. 2, p 149).

    Dear Narnia, in the modern world people living in territories get to decide who governs.

    Feb 12th, 2022 - 11:44 am - Link - Report abuse +4
  • Trimonde

    Taenk, if its good for one of us, it's positive for the other as well, as the underlying subject before the world is the same one.
    .
    Mr Potts, people who live on a territory, are people living on a territory. Shall we describe what defines that territory before you decide on some fictitious omnipotence for them? Who is the one really living in Narnia here? To me it is the ones who invent a clever Overseas Territory paradigm to confuse the situation and use it to mask their hidden geopolitical ambitions using those same people as actors of consequence, teaching them well what the scoop needs to be for their “political narrative” to work in forcing that illogical cheating paradigm. ... I bet you don't even understand what I'm saying by using the word “paradigm”. Should I be generous and just teach you to understand a situation of human civilization you clearly have never stopped to think about? uuuh... no. But if you ask nicely, I will.
    .
    Are you even trying to use your cognitive reasoning of language here?? For Argentina to say it is not negotiating its sovereignty to the islands, even as written in their Constitution does not prevent negotiations for such sovereignty to be held, as sovereignty for Argentina as well as for Britain or the Islanders, could indeed continue to manifest and become permanent by some kind of solution that allows for both, either separately or shared.

    Feb 12th, 2022 - 12:26 pm - Link - Report abuse -8
  • Swede

    Sr. Carmona must try to explain how an Argentine take over (”Argentinian Sovereignty over the Malivinas is not negotiable) could ever lead to “the South Atlantic becoming a space of peace and cooperation”. There has been peace in the area for almost 40 years (since June 14 1982) thanks to the BFSAI). It is up to Argentina fix the “cooperation” part. But that country do not want cooperation, they just want to “exercise sovereignity” against the will of the people living there.

    Feb 12th, 2022 - 12:30 pm - Link - Report abuse +5
  • Trimonde

    You are wrong Swede, Argentina has no aim whatsoever against the people put on the islands by Britain eleven years after ejecting the Argentinians. Argentina denounces the British occupation and usurpation of its sovereignty in 1833 and wants a resolution, that obviously honors its sovereign right to the islands. As long as Britain acknowledges it should not have forcefully ejected the Argentines and is willing to have talks over that historical issue, sovereignty can be maintained for Argentina, as well as truly acquired for the first time by the islanders. Yes, indeed for Argentine rights to the islands to enter negotiations could mean the achievement of true not bogus, but true self determination for the islands who today must compromise under their sovereign ruler, England. That emergence of islander sovereignty could in turn take many shapes, one in which they continue to be under the umbrella of the UK, or within Argentine sovereignty or administration, or fully independent. ... But by freezing with insolence and irreverent denial everything, Britain demonstrates it continues to carry on with a despicable imperialist attitude that assumes the world was created for it alone while all other countries are beneath it. Then again, in this world rich people don't seem to care about others hating them, until things change for them and the reality of what they have been like hits them like a brick in the face.

    Feb 12th, 2022 - 12:46 pm - Link - Report abuse -7
  • Tænk

    Geeeeeee....

    - The Anglo Turnip above has solved both greatest conflicts them Anglos are curently having with the Chinks and the Russkies with one single stroke...:

    -“ In the modern world people living in territories get to decide who governs.”- ..., he says...!

    Problem solved with ~80% Russki populated Crimea Peninsula..., I say...
    Problem solved with ~90% Russky populated Donetsk, Donbas, Et al. in East Ukraine..., I say...
    Problem solved with ~100% Chink populated Spartly & Et al. isles i the South China Sea..., I say...


    What would we do without them Anglo Turnips..., huhhhhhhhhhh.....???

    Capisce...?

    Feb 12th, 2022 - 12:48 pm - Link - Report abuse -6
  • Steve Potts

    Argentina’s constitution destroys her claim to the Falklands.

    Falklands - The Futility of Negotiating Sovereignty With Argentina (1 pg) : https://www.academia.edu/57344689/Falklands_The_Futility_of_Negotiating_Sovereignty_With_Argentina

    An inconvenient truth

    Feb 12th, 2022 - 12:54 pm - Link - Report abuse +3
  • Trimonde

    Why are you so thick Potts?? ... Argentina's constitutional article on Malvinas simply affirms the same thing Britain does, that sovereignty ITSELF is non negotiable. Who says there can only be one single absolute and total sovereignty to the archipelago? Sovereignty can be integrally maintained by more than one country regarding land any number of ways, especially if we are talking about an archipelago in the ocean.

    Feb 12th, 2022 - 01:08 pm - Link - Report abuse -5
  • Islander1

    Trimonde,
    Do please tell us how many Argentine families- other than their militia who had been there just a few months were ordered to leave in 1833?

    The answer-as logged in the Argentine Navy Archives -is NONE. all the civilian families were invited to stay so long as they accepted British rule- or leave of their own free choice.
    2 families elected to leave - one Uruguyan and one Brazilian - all those of Argentine(United Provinces as it was then) origen, actually volunteered to stay - and the last survivor of them, a well known lady, died in 1864 and is buried in Stanley cemetery

    And the Argenmtimne Constitution rukles out any form of modern democratic sovereinght negation - as it makes clear that as far as the Arenitine Constitution goes - the Islands are Argentine.

    So how can Argentina “negotiate” at all - other than a hand over date.?

    So the only way Argentina can proceed if it wishes to is find a way on getting a majority of Islanders to vote in an impartial supervised referendum to agree to become part of Argentina.
    And I think you may struggle a bit there as only 9 years ago a similar impartial supervised referendum came out at over 99% in favour of staying as we are. Only 3 votes for “something else” - which did not necessarily mean Argentine either.

    Feb 12th, 2022 - 01:13 pm - Link - Report abuse +5
  • Tænk

    Geeeeeeeeeeeeeee....
    One has to luuuuuuuuuv them Kelper FIDF Militiamen efforts to “pigeonhole” that little 1833 Argie garrison in Malvinas..., to somehow try to justify their 1833 expulsion by the Engrish Navy...

    - If they were “Authorities” it was okey to expell them..., they say...
    - If they were “Militia” it was okey to expell them...
    - If they were “Family of Militia” it was okey to expell them...
    - If they were “Convicts” it was okey to expell them...
    - If they were not “Argies” it was okey to expell them...
    - If they were not “Families” it was okey to expell them...
    - If they were not “Civilian” it was okey to expell them...

    Geeeeee..., what 'bout...:
    If they were not “Parishioners of the Church of Scotland” it was okey to expell them......?

    Capisce..., Mr. Timlander1...?






    I their eyes...seems to be pRamount that those persons

    Feb 12th, 2022 - 01:59 pm - Link - Report abuse -5
  • Monkeymagic

    Oh dear “Think”

    The militia that was expelled arrived on the Sarandi in 6th October 1832 had already mutineed, murdered their Captain, raped his wife and rampaged through the settlement on the island.

    This settlement was led by Matthew Brisbane...who was err....British.

    So, a settlement led by a British man was attacked by a murderous raping Argentine crew, and six weeks later they were evicted, followed by 200 years of British rule.

    You call this an expulsion of rightful Argentine rule.

    The worst thing is you know the truth but are terrified of it.

    Capisce???

    Feb 12th, 2022 - 02:50 pm - Link - Report abuse +5
  • Tænk

    The info provided by the above Anglo Turnip is factually incorrect...
    (Feel free to consult Anglo copper (ret.) Roger Lorton's “Falklandtimeline” if in doubt...;-)

    The worst thing is that Anglo Turnips don't know what truth is..., and don't give a damn...

    Capisce...?

    Feb 12th, 2022 - 03:28 pm - Link - Report abuse -7
  • Trimonde

    Ok Islander 1, so according to you 2000 or 3000 people on the islands under British rule who don't even have a nation of their own own, should decide on a matter that concerns Argentina's territorial sovereignty and its own history which of course started centuries before any Islander got to the islands. Sure, that makes a lot of sense, especially considering they were brought to the islands to shore up British occupation in light of Argentina's denouncement and protest. What else is on your plate of b*** s*** today?

    Feb 12th, 2022 - 03:41 pm - Link - Report abuse -7
  • Dirk Dikkler

    @Trimonde It don`t change a thing after all these Years. You really just cannot Grasp the reality that Argentina Never Had and Will Never Have the Falklands !! all the Distorted History that you have used and Twisted to fit your Narrative will not lead to the Holy Grail that You are seeking it will lead to Despair and Financial ruination of Argentina !

    Feb 12th, 2022 - 03:57 pm - Link - Report abuse +4
  • Steve Potts

    Trimonde

    Perhaps I'm not so thick...

    Argentine Transitory Disposition in its Constitution

    The claim had been enshrined in a provisional article of the 1994 constitution: The Argentine Nation ratifies its legitimate and non-prescribing sovereignty over the Malvinas, Georgias del Sur and Sandwich del Sur Islands and over the corresponding maritime and insular zones, as they are an integral part of the National territory. The recovery of said territories and the full exercise of sovereignty, respectful of the way of life of their inhabitants and according to the principles of international law, are a permanent and un-relinquished goal of the Argentine people (Constitution of the Argentine Nation, 1994).

    Non-prescribing sovereignty

    This means that it is not subject to prescription, eternal and permanent. Argentina would only accept a complete surrender of sovereignty so any negotiations would be pointless.

    Feb 12th, 2022 - 04:01 pm - Link - Report abuse +4
  • Lord Lucan

    Aaaaaaw Think! Aint you dead yet? Still peddling the same old tripe year after year....

    Feb 12th, 2022 - 05:32 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
  • Don Alberto

    Negotiations of sovereignity over the British Falkland Islands can begin as soon as Argentina has returned Patagonia south of Bahia Blanca, and the provinces Chaco, Formosa and Misiones, all of which she took forcefully at gun point, to their rightful owners.

    Feb 12th, 2022 - 05:52 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
  • Trimonde

    Potts the reason you and others think that, is because in the back of your minds you're thinking the islands can only have one sovereign ruler. However history shows us many cases in which the most sensible understanding of situations resulted in land being divided, including the Malvinas themselves when for a while the English were on the Western Island and the Spanish and French on the Eastern Island. The world is full of cases of islands being divided, or even tiny territorial enclaves left within another country. Sadly for your people, you're prejudicial mindset does not let you see how appropriate such a solution would be in the case of Malvinas / Falklands because you're xenophobically bent with the privilege of wielding the abuse of power in countless social-racism laden situations around the world, you're enjoying and making use of much more of seeing Argentina as an enemy than as a friend because your country is very much a warring society in the way it views the world, and so your blinders only let you see the thrill of wining and beating down the easy opponent. Such is the hunger of the British ego for its need to feed its nationalistic oppressive self adulating preponderance.

    Feb 12th, 2022 - 06:47 pm - Link - Report abuse -4
  • Steve Potts

    Trimonde

    The evidence already provided suggests that you are wrong.

    Feb 12th, 2022 - 07:31 pm - Link - Report abuse +4
  • Trimonde

    Whatever that means! I'm sure it means what you need it to mean for you.

    Feb 12th, 2022 - 09:07 pm - Link - Report abuse -5
  • Islander1

    Trimonde - Yes the Spanish empire bit of todays Argentina that on your Independence in 1810 became e the “provinces of the River Plate” predates full time British settlement in the islands.
    But I am afraid todays Argentina as we know it was not fully established until the1870s - 2 generations after the British re-established in 1833 and long after the Islands were well established by the settlers from UK.
    After all it was folks from the Falklands who pioneered settlement inTierra Del Fuego when there was Nobody there from Buenos Aires. Likewise in Rio Gallegos and Santa Cruz Province- the currency in the late 1800s was the British £ - and where did the first sheep in that area come from? It was an ancestor of mine who shipped them over up
    the Gallegos river in the 1860s.

    Feb 12th, 2022 - 09:28 pm - Link - Report abuse +5
  • Monkeymagic

    Trimonde

    There are islands just of the coast of the UK called the Faroe Islands, they are far closer to the UK than the Falklands are to Argentina. The Faroe Islands are the sovereign territory of Denmark, over 1000 miles away. Greenland is also the sovereign territory of Denmark even though it is closer to Canada.

    This is because the people who live there like it that way.

    As far as war-mongering is concerned.

    Who invaded the Falklands in 1982, who planted unmapped minefields, who used civilians as human shields, who sent untrained kids to die? Argentina.

    Who sent a militia to claim the islands in October 1832 only for them to mutiny and murder their Captain and rape his wife?

    The solution for the Falklands is simple, the people who have lived there for 200 years decide what they want. A country 300 miles away (1200 miles away in 1833 before your genocidal march through Patagonia) has no rights, no say, no history.

    Feb 12th, 2022 - 09:32 pm - Link - Report abuse +5
  • Tænk

    Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeee....

    Meanwhile we all are here discussing serious things..., the great Leader of the “Grat Brutish Family” is having a hell of a party...

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/ukpolitics/video-2612365/Video-MP-Joy-Morrissey-rides-cowboy-like-donkey-Geek-Mythology.html

    Chuckle..., chuckle...

    Feb 12th, 2022 - 09:33 pm - Link - Report abuse -6
  • Monkeymagic

    Thick

    We aren't discussing serious things. Argentinas claim to the Falklands is far from serious, it is delusional propaganda.

    It only became serious for a brief window in 1982 when you sent hundreds of your people to die based on your lies and delusions.

    Everything written on here, discussed at the UN committee of joke countries, or claims of “support” mean precisely nothing. Never did, never will.

    You've wasted hundreds of hours of your life reading and posting on here thinking it was “serious”...oh dear poor you.

    but its your life to waste

    chuckle..... chuckle....

    Feb 12th, 2022 - 09:43 pm - Link - Report abuse +5
  • Tænk

    Haaaaaughty.....

    Feb 12th, 2022 - 10:06 pm - Link - Report abuse -5
  • Roger Lorton

    Same old .....

    https://falklandstimeline.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/dead-horse.jpg

    Feb 12th, 2022 - 10:25 pm - Link - Report abuse +5
  • Tænk

    Hello copper...
    Where you been...?
    Reading 'bout that acab dick dike...?
    Did you see my above recommandation of your timeline to an Engrish Turnip...?

    Feb 12th, 2022 - 10:37 pm - Link - Report abuse -7
  • Terence Hill

    “With the purpose of achieving a definitive solution to the sovereignty dispute according to the terms established in Resolution 2065 of the United Nations Assembly.”

    Superseded by:

    “It is therefore not surprising that the General Assembly declared in 1970 that the modem prohibition against the acquisition of territory by conquest should not be construed as affecting titles to territory created 'prior to the Charter regime and valid under international law'..”
    Akehurst's Modern Introduction to International Law Peter Malanczuk

    Feb 13th, 2022 - 10:02 am - Link - Report abuse +3
  • Steve Potts

    Trimonde

    It's in Narnia's constitution.

    Non-prescribing sovereignty

    This means that it is not subject to prescription, eternal and permanent. Argentina would only accept a complete surrender of sovereignty so any negotiations would be pointless.

    It's not written into the UK's.

    Feb 13th, 2022 - 11:32 am - Link - Report abuse +2
  • Tænk

    Geeeeeeeee....

    Yet another embarrasing Anglo Turnip just above...

    This one doesn't even know that them Anglos from Britannia, Cambria & Caledonia don't have no Constitution...

    Chuckle..., chuckle...

    Feb 13th, 2022 - 01:16 pm - Link - Report abuse -5
  • Terence Hill

    “Don't have no Constitution...”

    Oh yes they do, albeit it is both written, and unwritten.
    As there is specific references to it in any of the numerous constitutional issues before the courts.

    Constitution of the United Kingdom
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kingdom

    Feb 13th, 2022 - 03:31 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
  • Tænk

    TWIMC...


    Yankee Constitution...:
    https://www.senate.gov/civics/constitution_item/constitution.htm

    Argie Constitution...:
    https://www.senate.gov/civics/constitution_item/constitution.htm

    Brutish Constitution....:
    .....//................./............/........................./.....


    Pls. feel free to fill the dots...
    Anyone.............?
    Capisce...?

    Feb 13th, 2022 - 03:44 pm - Link - Report abuse -4
  • Terence Hill

    “There is none so blind as those that will not see”

    https://en.mercopress.com/2022/02/12/latin-american-and-caribbean-parliament-call-for-falklands-sovereignty-talks-with-uk/comments#comment519916

    Feb 13th, 2022 - 03:56 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
  • Tænk

    Sooooooo....
    No Brutish Constitution then...
    Please try again..., Anyone... :-))))

    Feb 13th, 2022 - 04:01 pm - Link - Report abuse -4
  • Terence Hill

    “Don't have no Constitution...”

    Oh yes they do, albeit it is both written, and unwritten.
    As there is specific references to it in any of the numerous constitutional issues before the courts.

    Constitution of the United Kingdom
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kingdom

    Feb 13th, 2022 - 04:36 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
  • Tænk

    No one...?

    Brutish Constitution....:
    .....//................./............/........................./.....

    Feb 13th, 2022 - 05:15 pm - Link - Report abuse -4
  • Terence Hill

    Constitution of the United Kingdom

    The Constitution of the United Kingdom or British constitution comprises the written and unwritten arrangements that establish the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as a political body. Unlike in most countries, no attempt has been made to codify such arrangements into a single document. Thus, it is known as an uncodified constitution. This enables the constitution to be easily changed as no provisions are formally entrenched. However, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom recognises that there are constitutional principles, including parliamentary sovereignty, the rule of law, democracy and upholding international law.

    The Supreme Court also recognises that some Acts of Parliament have special constitutional status, and are therefore part of the constitution. These include Magna Carta, which in 1215 required the King to call a “common counsel” (now called Parliament) to represent people, to hold courts in a fixed place, to guarantee fair trials, to guarantee free movement of people, to free the church from the state, and to guarantee rights of “common” people to use the land. After the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and the Glorious Revolution, the Bill of Rights 1689 and the Claim of Right Act 1689 cemented Parliament's position as the supreme law making body, and said that the “election of members of Parliament ought to be free”.

    Feb 13th, 2022 - 05:32 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
  • Tænk

    Nope...
    No one...
    No Brutish Constitution then...

    Feb 13th, 2022 - 05:36 pm - Link - Report abuse -4
  • Terence Hill

    Constitution of the United Kingdom

    The Constitution of the United Kingdom or British constitution comprises the written and unwritten arrangements that establish the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as a political body. Unlike in most countries, no attempt has been made to codify such arrangements into a single document. Thus, it is known as an uncodified constitution. This enables the constitution to be easily changed as no provisions are formally entrenched. However, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom recognises that there are constitutional principles, including parliamentary sovereignty, the rule of law, democracy and upholding international law.

    The Supreme Court also recognises that some Acts of Parliament have special constitutional status, and are therefore part of the constitution. These include Magna Carta, which in 1215 required the King to call a “common counsel” (now called Parliament) to represent people, to hold courts in a fixed place, to guarantee fair trials, to guarantee free movement of people, to free the church from the state, and to guarantee rights of “common” people to use the land. After the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and the Glorious Revolution, the Bill of Rights 1689 and the Claim of Right Act 1689 cemented Parliament's position as the supreme law making body, and said that the “election of members of Parliament ought to be free”.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kingdom

    Feb 13th, 2022 - 05:41 pm - Link - Report abuse +3
  • Tænk

    Nada Brutish Constitution.

    Feb 13th, 2022 - 05:50 pm - Link - Report abuse -4
  • Trimonde

    Steve Potts, I'm sorry, but I cannot wrap my mind around how someone entirely belonging to another country feels they will affirm how another country will interpret AND USE their own Constitutional articles, or what their Congress will do with them in the future. ... This has always astounded me every time I've heard other British members and the odd copy cat make the same kind of accusatory rejection about future discussions over the island's dispute. ... Sadly however, beyond feeling astounded by it, what impacted me the most about this was the brazen contemptuous prejudice it reveled inhabited the minds of those who subscribed to it, as clearly something so detached in its senselessness can have only been adopted from having heard someone else make the same ridiculously confident detractive assertion.

    Feb 13th, 2022 - 09:15 pm - Link - Report abuse -5
  • Terence Hill

    “Nada Constitution.”

    Doesn’t matter how much you lie; it doesn’t change the facts.

    “Constitution of the United Kingdom
    The Constitution of the United Kingdom or British constitution comprises the written and unwritten arrangements that establish the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as a political body. Unlike in most countries, no attempt has been made to codify such arrangements into a single document. Thus, it is known as an uncodified constitution. This enables the constitution to be easily changed as no provisions are formally entrenched. However, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom recognises that there are constitutional principles, including parliamentary sovereignty, the rule of law, democracy and upholding international law.

    The Supreme Court also recognises that some Acts of Parliament have special constitutional status, and are therefore part of the constitution. These include Magna Carta, which in 1215 required the King to call a “common counsel” (now called Parliament) to represent people, to hold courts in a fixed place, to guarantee fair trials, to guarantee free movement of people, to free the church from the state, and to guarantee rights of “common” people to use the land. After the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and the Glorious Revolution, the Bill of Rights 1689 and the Claim of Right Act 1689 cemented Parliament's position as the supreme law making body, and said that the “election of members of Parliament ought to be free”.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kingdom

    Feb 13th, 2022 - 09:23 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
  • Tænk

    TWIMC...

    - Meanwile..., more good news from the Indian Ocean...
    (Still not reported by Anglo MercoPress ;-)))...
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/14/mauritius-formally-challenges-britains-ownership-of-chagos-islands

    - I Tænk though..., the pathetic, anachronic Brutish Empire should send Bojo..., their best Clownman to the area to rattle with some nuclear armed atomic U-boat's and raise some Circus down there...

    - You Anglos can NOT PERMIT ANY of them “Brownies” to take control of ANY area...!
    Look what *THEM ARE DOING” doing agInst the UK...!!!

    *) Alok Sharma...
    Bim Afolami...
    Dolar Popat...
    Gagan Mohindra...
    Imran Ahmad Khan...
    Kwasi Kwarteng...
    Mohamed Sheikh
    Nadhim Sadhawi...
    Nus Ghani...
    Priti Patel...
    Ranil Jayawardena...
    Rishi Sunak...
    Sajid Javid...
    Saqib Bhatti...
    Sayeeda Warsi...
    Sam Gyimah...
    Sandip Verma...
    Shailesh Vara...
    Tariq Ahmad...
    Suella Braverman...
    And soooooooooooooooo many others we don't remember...;-)))

    - “I'M NOT A RACIST, I'M A REALIST”..., ain't that what You Lot luuuuuuvs to say...?

    MUKGA...!!!
    Capisce...???

    ;-)))))))))))))))))

    Feb 14th, 2022 - 11:39 am - Link - Report abuse -4
  • Terence Hill

    “Mauritius formally challenges Britain’s ownership of Chagos Islands”

    Lots of luck with that one as their barred according to the precepts of international law.
    That’s okay the Brits can just send a gun-boat.
    Mauritius itself was barred from bringing suit, by her acquiescence.

    ”There is a general principle, in international law jurisprudence, that claims may be extinguished by the passage of time.

    “The principle of extinctive prescription, the bar of claims by lapse of time, is recognized by international law. It has been applied by arbitration tribunals in a number of cases. ... Undue delay in presenting a claim, which may lead to it being barred, is to distinguished from effects of the passage of time on the merits of the claim in cases where the claimant state has, by failing to protest or otherwise, given evidence of acquiescence’”: I Oppenheim 526 and 527. See Cheng, General Principles of Law as Applied by International Courts and Tribunals (1953), Chap. 18; King, Prescription of Claims in International Law, (1934) 15 B.Y.I.L. 82. Cf. prescription, acquisitive.

    The Gentini case PCA 1903...claims against Venezuela on the part of the Italian government on behalf of an Italian citizen alleging PAYMENT OF A DEBT THAT HAD ACCRUED THIRTY YEARS EARLIER.
    “A stale claim does not become any less so because it happens to be an international one, and this tribunal, in dealing with it, cannot escape the obligation of a universally recognized principle simply because there happens to be no code of positive rules by which its action is to be governed.”
    Accordingly, Gentini provides historical evidence that, … the PCA(Permanent Court of Arbitration) in 1903, identify that the applicability of a prescription period in international law.
    https://commentary.canlii.org/w/canlii/2017CanLIIDocs397.pdf

    Feb 14th, 2022 - 12:11 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
  • Tænk

    TWIMC....

    Fresh good news from the China Media Group...

    Kind of a MercoPress thingy..., just some 50,000 times bigger...!

    I especially like their following paragraph...:
    - “El Reino Unido ocupó por la fuerza las Islas Malvinas y también colonizó Hong Kong, territorio legítimo de China, a través de la Guerra del Opio. Por esta causa, tanto Chinos como Argentinos, podemos sentir empatía cuando hablamos de odio hacia el colonialismo.”

    https://www.pagina12.com.ar/401543-apoyo-a-la-soberania-en-malvinas

    Chuchle..., chuckle...

    Feb 14th, 2022 - 07:26 pm - Link - Report abuse -2
  • Terence Hill

    “Mauritius formally challenges Britain’s ownership of Chagos Islands”

    They’re shit right out of luck, just like Argentina absolutely no of colour of right.
    Oh, dear they’ve agreed to a deal, and now want to renege on it tough; it’s well over the benchmark of thirty years, set by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in 1903.

    Feb 14th, 2022 - 08:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    THE LOKAL LEGEND Skippy Jessop and one image says it all!



    https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8d91ccf1519967874cac08705a27b88da78ce175/2_0_3764_2259/master/3764.jpg?width=620&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=6e8e21da5634053b4201921b1edb544b


    ¡Saludos cordiales desde Chicureo!

    Feb 14th, 2022 - 09:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Terence Hill

    THE LOKAL LEGEND is Terence Hill.
    Skippy Jessop is the sock-puppet of the malignant narcissist Chicureo.
    Well, you’re the only one relying on him.
    Moreover, your link is all the poof we need.

    “Error 401 Unauthorized - invalid signature”

    Feb 14th, 2022 - 11:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    one image says it all!

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8d91ccf1519967874cac08705a27b88da78ce175/2_0_3764_2259/master/3764.jpg?width=620&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=6e8e21da5634053b4201921b1edb544b


    Feb 14th, 2022 - 11:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Terence Hill

    “THE LOKAL LEGEND Skippy Jessop and one image says it all”

    No, it doesn’t it’s just like you, it says a big fat zero.
    “Error 401 Unauthorized - invalid signature”

    Incidentally, Skippy is the malignant troll’s sock-puppet.
    He’s forced to rely on fiction as he’s unable to produce a winning argument.
    “The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.” Jill Ruckeshaus

    Feb 15th, 2022 - 03:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Zaczac121

    Sometimes I wonder why this site has a comment section… Then I realise it’s probably to stop Lorton, Chicureo, Terrence, Trimonde and Think from annoying anyone else outside this site >.>

    Feb 15th, 2022 - 01:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Terence Hill

    Not hard to guess what your favorite song is.
    “If I ruled the world”
    If wishes were horses beggars would ride.

    Feb 15th, 2022 - 01:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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