UK domestic problems could favor resumption of talks on Falklands with Argentina, says Malvinas secretary

Monday, June 20th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

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The head of the Argentine Secretariat on Malvinas, Argentine Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands who will be also attending the UN Special Decolonization Committee this week said he was optimistic about a resumption of Falklands/Malvinas discussions with the UK. Read full article

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Steve Potts
Time for Argentinian politicians to tell the truth - Argentina has no legal nor moral claim to the Falkland Islands
Jun 20th, 2022 - 09:43 am - Link - Report abuse +5
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The English Pirate
Tell the truth? What a ridiculous suggestion.
Jun 20th, 2022 - 09:58 am - Link - Report abuse +4
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FitzRoy
Poor old Bill Carmona! He is either deluded or he is deluding! I don't see how any “problems” in the UK have very much relevance on starting a conversation over perceptions of sovereignty. As far as most of us can tell, everything is sorted and there is plenty of stability in the Falklands. There is nothing that needs resolving as everything was dealt with in June 1982.
Jun 20th, 2022 - 10:58 am - Link - Report abuse +4
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Falklands-Free
What a plonker.
Another straw clutching moment for sure. With Argentina in economic melt down and poverty at more than 50% , why would the islanders want to give up their healthy and wealthy lifestyle.
Wont happen.
Falkland islands have no poverty, have a thriving economy the fifth best in the world per capita.
We have our constitutional rights to live the lives of our own choosing. That was made abundantly clear in 2013.
Argentina can ask all they want with Britain. The facts are, it is we ,the islanders, who have the final say and Britain guarantees that right not to do anything against the wishes of the people of the Falkland Islands.
They keep banging on about 1829 to 1833 , five years of complete defiance of British requests to leave the islands that they had no permission to put an Argentine garrison on.
They may have succeeded in removing an indigenous people from Patagonia , but they are not going to be allowed to do that again.
The Falkland Islanders will soon begin extracting oil and that is where the pressure comes from in Argentina ,.Billions of barrels that could catapult the Falklands to the number one world earners per capita.
Without the wealth around the south Atlantic and Arctic oceans Argentina needs they have no hope in hell of saving their shrinking economy.
So saying that some places in Argentina are pretty and would help the islanders , let's not forget the places where people are struggling to live in that Country. That is the places they have in mind for the islanders.
What a dreamer he is.
Jun 20th, 2022 - 01:56 pm - Link - Report abuse +4
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Don Alberto
Humpty, dumpty says Malvinas secretary.

Keep dreaming, Pumpkin.

BTW: Malvina is a character in Jorge Amado's novel “Gabriela, cravo e canela”, set in the subtropical town of Ilhéus in Brazil.

One can only wonder why Argentina has a secretary dedicated to her.
Jun 20th, 2022 - 09:01 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
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