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Falklands/Malvinas: Ecuador Legislative overwhelmingly votes in support of Argentina's claims
President Lasso visited Argentina last April, but Carmona apparently did not receive a reciprocity treatment from the Ecuadorean foreign ministry Ecuador's one House Legislative Assembly overwhelmingly voted on Wednesday in support of Argentina and “its battle in defense of Malvinas, South Georgia, and South Sandwich Islands, and adjoining maritime and insular spaces”, which according to the Argentine ministry of foreign affairs, “are illegitimately occupied by the United Kingdom”.
The resolution received 121 votes from the 137 member Chamber and was sponsored by an indigenous member of the House, Ricardo Ulcuando, who originally proposed “an unrestricted support in the defense of Argentine sovereignty, as well as rejection of any action which implies real threats to the exercise of such sovereignty, against the State of our brotherly countries and ours also.”
However during the debate a member of the opposition criticized Ecuadorean conservative president Guillermo Lasso recalling that ”even when it come to the Malvinas, Lasso is incoherent. When he visited Argentina back in April he expressed support for Argentina, but it was mere convenience and opportunism, since the Ecuadorean Foreign Affairs ministry did not receive Guillermo Carmona (Argentina's Secretary for Malvinas, South Atlantic Islands and Antarctica), who arrived to Ecuador on an official mission“
Nevertheless, and despite the incident, the Argentine foreign ministry was quick to underline the full support from the Ecuadorean House to Argentina's position, which meant ”calling on the authorities of the UK, cabinet and parliament to, following on UN and Decolonization Committee, C24, mandates, resume bilateral talks with Argentina to put an end to the sovereignty dispute”.
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Read all commentsNevertheless, and despite the incident, the Argentine foreign ministry was quick to underline the full support from the Ecuadorean House to Argentina's position, which meant ”calling on the authorities of the UK, cabinet and parliament to, following on UN and Decolonization Committee, C24, mandates, resume bilateral talks with Argentina to put an end to the sovereignty dispute”.
Oct 20th, 2022 - 10:40 am +2UN C24 Decolonisation Committee Resolutions Are Not UN Policy:
Resolutions from committees may be rejected or amended by the Assembly. Consequently, unless and until they are endorsed by the Assembly, no resolutions from the Special Committee can be regarded as UN policy. The Assembly has not considered the ‘’Falkland Islands (Malvinas) Question’’ nor adopted any resolution on the question since 1988. (Meetings of the UN Special Committee on Decolonisation, www South Atlantic Council www Staff City ac UK, Willetts P. 2012).
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Oct 21st, 2022 - 09:03 am +2Please don't forget that a sovereignty claim without ANYTHING to take to court can only be described as worthless. Good for fools and people who have allowed themselves to become indoctrinated. Ja ja
“Which according to the Argentine ministry of foreign affairs, “are illegitimately occupied by the United Kingdom”.
Oct 21st, 2022 - 07:40 pm +1“Illegitimate
not authorized by the law; not in accordance with accepted standards or rules:”
According to the legalities, CONVENTION OF PEACE was a binding treaty as to territorial claims.
”There is a general principle, in international law jurisprudence, that claims may be extinguished by the passage of time.
“The principle of extinctive prescription, that is, the bar of claims by lapse of time, is recognized by international law.”
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 UK can prove jurisdiction as to title, and the last time I looked they have tossed a claim that exceeded thirty years (The Gentini case PCA 1903)
“A State which has ceased to exercise any authority over a territory cannot, by purely verbal protestations, indefinitely maintain its title against another which for a sufficiently long time has effectively exercised the powers and fulfilled the duties of sovereignty in it.''(Theory and Reality in International Law, de Visscher, 1957, p201).
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