Falkland Islands commemorate Margaret Thatcher Day

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The Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly marked Margaret Thatcher Day on January 10, paying tribute to the late British Prime Minister for her leadership during the 1982 Falklands War. The day is observed annually to honor her role in safeguarding the Islands’ right to self-determination. Read full article

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Pytangua
Ugh, please pass me the sick bag
Jan 11th, 2025 - 02:12 pm - Link - Report abuse -7
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Monkeymagic
yes Pytangua

The illegal Argentine invasion and the unnecessary loss of 900 lives does make one sick.

The childish repetition of the Peronist lies also is quite sickening

Or maybe you are feeling sick because you swallowed something even more pungent than Peronism

Who knows?
Jan 12th, 2025 - 03:03 pm - Link - Report abuse +6
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Argentine citizen
There is not Self determination when ur ocupping other country territory.
And in 1982 argentina recovery the islands by military force.. This dont fit under invation definition. U cant invade what is already yours
Jan 15th, 2025 - 05:57 pm - Link - Report abuse -2
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Esteban Domingo Fernandez
The UN says different about self determination, suck it up troll.
You did not recover anything, you have never owned the Falklands, and if you ever try again you will be obliterated, nearly a thousand people died because of your lies,
Jan 15th, 2025 - 06:04 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
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Argentine citizen
@EDF Your message in English:

There is no such principle of self-determination because it violates the territorial integrity of another country. What you mention is the novel British interpretation of said principle.

Welcome it may be if we need to deploy 12,000, 50,000, or more to put an end to the English occupation... you will also lose not only lifes.., your ocupation wont be free, we will sky rocket our defense budget on next years.. making your country take mirror contramesures.
Jan 16th, 2025 - 05:12 am - Link - Report abuse -2
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Esteban Domingo Fernandez
You are talking complete nonsense as usual Zit, the right to self determination applies to all , Argentina and Spain tried to block it at the UN, it FAILED. its not my interpretation in any way shape or form. just a pathetic desperate thought that you cling too,
As for the military garbage you keep spouting, you live in a dream world, UKs military budget for the Falklands is miniscule and decades ahead of what you have, technology is moving fast, weapons systems will bel advancing so much , the UK not England, you cant even get that correct, would destroy anything that gets near Falklands territorial waters, no Argentine government would fund a huge military ever again, they dont trust them, but go ahead spend spend spend, it will achieve nothing, you need to grow up
Jan 16th, 2025 - 09:54 am - Link - Report abuse +1
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Terence Hill
“no such principle of self-determination because it violates the territorial integrity of another country.”

Argentina is barred from using “territorial integrity” as an argument. As it is a post UN law and cannot be applied retroactively.

”...The rule of the intertemporal law still insists that an act must be characterized in accordance with the law in force at the time it was done, or closely on the next occasion. ...
The Acquisition of Territory in International Law By Robert Yewdall Jennings a Judge of the International Court of Justice from 1982. He also served as the President of the ICJ between 1991 and 1994. So in spite of your typical Argentine propensity for lying your argument is shown for the fraud that it is.
Jan 16th, 2025 - 10:39 am - Link - Report abuse +1
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Jack Jones
What planet do you live on Citizen, certainly not this one, Argentina will sky rocket military defence ?. best laugh i have had all week, Argentine trolls get funnier by the day,,
Jan 16th, 2025 - 11:50 am - Link - Report abuse +1
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Argentine citizen
@ mr jones,
According to our defense analysts and researchers, Argentina slightly increasing its defense budget to 2% of GDP would represent 35% of the defense spending of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Rubin).

However, we would have the freedom to dedicate that 35% entirely and exclusively to the South Atlantic. Rubin has to spread its budget across Russia, China, the Arab world, and its internal problems with Islamic terrorism.

We will dedicate ourselves solely and exclusively to you this century. Of course, we will not conduct military operations like in '82; we will simply accumulate passive pressure. This is called accumulation and wear, non violent resistence.
Jan 16th, 2025 - 05:26 pm - Link - Report abuse -2
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Jack Jones
Are the Falklanders afraid ?, no , is the UK afraid ? , no ,

You can spend whatever you like, you can try and bully as much as you like , you can try and pressure as much as you like, it will achieve nothing, it will change nothing, you are nothing more than a clueless fanatical buffoon who believed in a fairy story made up in 1942 by an un popular government, and where conned again by Galtieri in 1982, let this sink in to your fuddled brain, the Falklands indeed will become a sovereign country,
Jan 16th, 2025 - 05:45 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
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Argentine citizen
You lie to me ? Or lie to yourself.?
Jan 17th, 2025 - 04:15 am - Link - Report abuse -1
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Jack Jones
I have come to the conclusion, that you are stark raving bonkers, firstly not a squeak from Argentina about the Falklands for over a 100 years until the loony government of yours made up a fairy tale in 1942, not a squeak, secondly their is not one shred of evidence that says the islands where or are yours that would stand up in a court of law, it is you fella that is living the lie,, thirdly the fantasy in your head of pressurising the Falklands is the one that clearly confirms you are not a full shilling, life will go on as normal for the islanders and no childish outlandish fantasies that is in zooming around in your head will change that, on that note i finish this conversation with you troll,
Jan 17th, 2025 - 09:31 am - Link - Report abuse +1
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Argentine citizen
Rubin made it very clear that 55 years of silence between 1774 and 1829 do not constitute acquisitive prescription. Between 1833 to 1945

And abaut what u say.. argentina made several claims
Jan 17th, 2025 - 01:46 pm - Link - Report abuse -1
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Esteban Domingo Fernandez
Now you are just repeating the same old nonsense that you have been posting for the last 2 or 3 years, its irrelevant what Rubin says, its irrelevant what your government says and its irrelevant what you say, all you are doing is making a complete fool of yourself, nobody debates with you any more apart from newcomers because basically you talk excrement, nothing more than a deluded fool, as JC has said may times, get a life you sad little boy you are an embarrassment,
Jan 17th, 2025 - 02:53 pm - Link - Report abuse -1
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Terence Hill
Assessment of Argentina’s Claim to Sovereignty
“Argentina failed to submit the dispute...there is little doubt that GB acquired definitive title to the Islands before 1982.”

after reviewing for Argentina’s claim, Argentina never developed title to the Islands.
Applying the rules, extinctive prescription
one could conclude this was a sufficient to extinguish Argentina's claim in spite diplomatic protests. The establishment of the world courts changed the situation so that diplomatic protests were no longer sufficient to keep Argentina's claim to alive.
The League of Nations and, later, the UN were capable of adjudicating the competing claims. ...
To avoid losing her claim her claim to the LON, the PCIJ or the ICJ....For over 50 years prior to the armed conflict of April 2, 1982, Argentina failed to submit the dispute

Applying the rules concerning the mode of extinctive prescription to GB results in a different conclusion. It involves possession,...However, since this was such a period of time, exceeding eighty years, one could conclude that this sufficient to extinguish Argentina's claim
Regardless of the conclusion reached above, however, the establishment of the world courts changed the situation so that diplomatic protests were no longer sufficient to keep Argentina's claim to sovereignty alive.”
The Falklands (Malvinas) Islands: An International Law Analysis of the Dispute Between Argentina and Great Britain

Pamphlet NO. 27-100-107 DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY; Washington, D.C., Winter 1985
Jan 17th, 2025 - 08:15 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
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