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“If you have to deny the existence of a people, your argument does not work”, Falklands reply to Mondino
“If you have to deny the existence of a people to make your argument work, your argument doesn’t work,” has been the public reply of Falkland Islands lawmaker MLA Teslyn Barkman to the piece of Argentina's foreign minister Diana Mondino addressed to Falkland Islanders, during this week's session of the Special Decolonization Committee, or C24, held at the United Nations, New York. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesSo Argentina is offering to let us live the lived if our choosing under their flag. Offering better living standards under their flag. Better education undervtheur flag.
Jun 21st, 2024 - 07:55 am - Link - Report abuse +3Claiming that they offer all levels of support to the islanders on that 2016 agreement.
Yet the still have an embargo placed upon us the attempts to hinder our growth.
That of course has failed.
We have never been an implanted people unlike those of Argentina.
We never removed a civilian indigenous people in 1833. Those that were removed were invaders of a British land.
Argentina has been land grabbing from the very first day it chose independance. History proves that. We islanders are small in numbers but huge on the world platform that has denied Argentina their continued land grabbing expansion.
They have interests in all of Antarctica and its potential wealth. They are not interested in a people, only land mass. They don't even care for their own people. Twenty thousand disappeared in the 1970's and early 80's.
Only stopped when Britain destroyed their military dictatorship in 1982.
Argentina is a disaster for Douth America that is still living in the past.
It is in self destruct mode and needs our wealth to try and turn their dying country around again.
They are a failure. They dont accept human rights.
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