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MLAs to UN C24 conference: “Falklands have a lot to give the world in fisheries and science”
The Falkland Islands lawmakers, MLA Teslyn Barkman and MLA Gavin Short will represent the Falkland Islands at the upcoming United Nations Decolonization Committee or C-24 conference in New York at the beginning of June. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesFalklands over fishing and military related activity is causing harm death and decease all around the South Atlantic.
May 22nd, 2024 - 11:38 am - Link - Report abuse -6The problem is that the English language handles most of this type of information, and we all know how important the pro-stealing Malvinas / silencing the territorial dispute propaganda is at all levels of media in the English speaking world.
The annual Pantomime?
May 22nd, 2024 - 12:38 pm - Link - Report abuse +3Same jokes.
Same pratfalls.
Same custard pies.
“They're behind you”
Seriously, I wish they were.
When the curtain closes, there will be - eventually - the C24 Annual Report.
What are the chances that it'll be different to the last one?
https://falklandstimeline.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/report-of-the-special-committee-on-the-situation-with-regard-to-the-implementation-of-the-declaration-on-the-granting-of-independence-to-colonial-countries-and-peoples-for-2023.pdf
What are the chances that the C24 will actually recommend its own Falklands Resolution for adoption by the UN? For the first time since 2004? “Oh yes they will. Oh no they won't”
Just another Panto
No Trimonde, the only propaganda is the garbage that comes from Argentina,
May 22nd, 2024 - 01:02 pm - Link - Report abuse +2It is a pantomime Roger Lorton, because behind the show and the stage of a political entity, is the real reason anyone is even on the islands. To bully steal them and secure them away from Argentina and its usurpation denouncement, in order to hold on to them for “expansionist future posterity” and military logistic control in the Southern Hemisphere. Those island's geography is not conducive to people living outside structures, they're never going to explode into a teaming society full of cultural activities, so stop dreaming. Everything they try to do outdoors there is a trying painful effort. They never have “nice days”, they have inconsistent nice “short stretches of hours”. They can't farm, can't keep horses and animals outdoors too long, they can't comfortably work outdoors, and the British are well aware of this, that's why they need the islanders to stay in war mentality like confrontational antagonism towards Argentina, because otherwise the people on the islands naturally gravitate to finding support on the continent, the British have always fought that, AND HID that point. Obiously, they always make sure to hide their dastardliness and present a fake narrative with which to fool everyone, that appears to be a real working structure. Like scaffolding.
May 22nd, 2024 - 02:14 pm - Link - Report abuse -6So how about we call a spade a spade and you stop hoping and working so hard towards something that well never be. The islands are kept by force, and that aint going to change anytime soon, so you can relax. They will remain “islands actively being taken from Argentina” until London comes to its senses and decides to start being honoring and respectful of other nation's equal rights to our planet.
Honoring ans respectful , and rights of our planet? You live in a dream trimonde.. british are belicist nation, they made pillage around world before 1400dc . They invaded, colonised or stole evry country they could. Egypt, india, china, suth africa, chagos, latin american countrys etc.. afortunatly the world is changing fast and they had to face china, rusia and the arab world.
May 22nd, 2024 - 05:55 pm - Link - Report abuse -5Argie zit, you need professional help, you show no humanity or decency , just remind me who raped pillaged murdered enslaved vast areas of Latin America , your ancestors thats who, Britain is not remotely concerned about Putin, his military is a joke, as far as the Arab world goes, no one is concerned one jot, Iranians are not Arabs they are Persian and the Arab world does not like the rogue state Iran anymore than any other civilised country, as far as China goes, its you who should be concerned about their interference and expansion in South America, your new leader can see that,
May 22nd, 2024 - 06:22 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Once again Trimonstruosidades, AKA Pat the Expat, defaces the chat with his walls of meaningless drivel. Clearly he needs to get a job...
May 22nd, 2024 - 06:42 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Trimonde
May 23rd, 2024 - 10:27 am - Link - Report abuse +2You’re right about one thing, the territory is an increasingly important strategic location for projecting control over the region.
Which is one of the main reasons why Argentina is so desperate to get control of the Islands, that and the abundant natural resources. Similarly with the rest of the S. Atlantic, i.e. S. Georgia/S. Sandwich Islands.
If Argentina cannot get control of at least the Falklands then the British control excludes them from the Antarctic/S. Atlantic altogether.
Problem is that when you consider the history of Argentina, how and when the country was carved out of inhabited lands where the inhabitants were then ethnically cleansed, even if you accept Argentina’s version of history in the S. Atlantic, the Islanders have at least as much right to be there as European settlers have to be in S. America.
After all the British recovered the Falklands from foreign invasion (for the second time) in 1833, the conquest of the desert wasn’t until 1878.
‘Our self-respect as a virile people obliges us to put down as soon as possible, by reason or by force, this handful of savages who destroy our wealth and prevent us from definitely occupying, in the name of law, progress and our own security, the richest and most fertile lands of the Republic.’
— Julio Argentino Roca.
Except ‘the richest and most fertile lands of the Republic’ were already occupied.
So by your logic, surely only the Native Americans have the right to self-determination in Patagonia or rather Puelmapu? The rest are an 'implanted population'.
If Argentinians now living there also have that right, then so do the Falkland Islanders.
Argentine citizen
Not really worth answering your post as it doesn’t actually say anything true or relevant, sorry.
@Pughol-H, not seen AC post a sensible comment in months, he lives in a fantasy world. didnt he claim that Britain invented apartheid a few weeks a go, when pointed out to him it was the Afrikaans that did it, he disappeared,
May 23rd, 2024 - 04:26 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Whataboutery is the other favoured tactic, as in the posting above, no mention of the Malvinas or anything connected to them.
May 24th, 2024 - 11:16 am - Link - Report abuse +1It does make me laugh when Creole Conquistadors start talking about other people having, ‘invaded, colonised or stole’ other people’s territory.
But hey, China is coming to the rescue just as soon as they ‘liberate’ Taiwan.
Might want to ask the Tibetans or Uyghurs how that works out.
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