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“We want to be us, a free people, practicing self-determination in a democratic country”, Falklands MLA Short

Wednesday, June 19th 2024 - 07:05 UTC
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Address to the United Nations Special Committee on the situation with regard to the implementation of the declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples. Also known as the Committee or C24, 18 June 2024. Petition by MLA Gavin Short, member of the Falkland Islands elected Legislative Assembly. Read full article

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  • MalvinasArgentinas H&G rights

    INCONVENIENT TRUTHS OF THE MALVINAS#29
    For more than 150 years, the pirates have occupied our land after expulsing our people during the 1833 invasion & usurpation, only 8 years after the same British empire signed a treaty of friendship & commerce with our new Argentinian nation.
    Today, the kelpers, their descendants, continue disregarding the sovereignty dispute that Argentina has been year after year claiming, as the rightful descendants of the Spanish Empire. The sovereignty dispute, acknowledged by the UN since 1946, is based on irrefutable historical, geographical & international law principles, such as the Papal docs, Utrecht Treaty, & the 1825 Treaty of Friendship & commerce between Argentina & the British Empire, to mention just a few docs; these islands, that rest on the Argentinian maritime platform, are located almost 13,000 miles from the UK, & are one of the last vestiges of the British colonial imperialism in foreign lands.
    The illegal occupiers raise again their voice to convince the world they’re the victims: not only claim they aren’t colonisers, but they don’t want to be ‘colonised’ by Argentina! To appear credible, they’ve created an invalid 2012 referendum -since the sovereignty of the islands is in dispute- that goes against UN recommendations that decisions on Malvinas must be reached by consensus between both parties.
    They claim 1982 as change of their status, from kelpers to indigenous people (?). The Gesta de Malvinas wasn’t an invasion, but a recovery action of Argentinian land that specifically stopped the 150 years of unanswered sovereignty claims in its tracks, voiding legal effects of what would have been 150 years of uninterrupted illegal occupation.
    With lies, & the US and Europe backing, you may have won a battle, but Argentina actions and claims have captured the world’s recognition of this anachronic colonialism. Don’t scream wolf, when we all know who the real wolf is.

    Jun 19th, 2024 - 05:11 pm - Link - Report abuse -4
  • Esteban Domingo Fernandez

    Who ever you are above, you are talking nonsense, Britain claimed these islands long before you even existed as a country, Spain France and Portugal have never said they claimed the islands first, only you do, clearly its false, get a proper education and do some genuine research, the diatribe you have posted is laughable,

    Jun 19th, 2024 - 06:04 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
  • Falklands-Free

    Argentina is a sick indoctrinated country that wants everything in the southern hemisphere and includes Chile and Antarctica. Totally fixed on a myth that they are the rightful owners. Given that we islanders were established for almost forty years before the breakaway country from Spain invaded and removed an entire indigenous people from Patagonia.
    They were never given anything from Spain. They fought Spain for four long years to get their independance in the first place. Spain did not recognise them for many years later.
    Argentina is the most selfish greedy land grabbing country in South America and one day her neighbours will wake up and stop them.
    They are the most vile indoctrinated people on the planet.
    They have created billions of dollars of debt. They have put over half their population into poverty. They destroyed the biggest beef industry the world had ever known.
    They are responsible for more than 20,000 disappeared and yet they think we islanders dont exist. We do and we are proving that to the world how successful we have been.
    The UN C24 are a total waste of time. They know we have left the colonial era and yet they still keep us on the list of countries that need to be decolonised. They are as untrustworthy as Argentina who controls them.

    Jun 19th, 2024 - 10:53 pm - Link - Report abuse +1

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