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Falklands Legislative Assembly pays tribute to British Armed Forces for ensuring the right to self determination
The Legislative Assembly of the Falkland Islands proudly marked on Saturday 28th June, the British Armed Forces Day 2025. “Today we pay tribute to the courage, dedication, and service of the men and women who make up the British Armed Forces – past and present – and reflect with deep gratitude on the critical role they continue to play in safeguarding the Falkland Islands and the sacrifices that have been made for our right to self-determination. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesBefore any clueless Argentine trolls says self determination is not applicable to the islanders then they best look at what the UN actually said,
Jul 03rd, 2025 - 10:48 am - Link - Report abuse +2Argentine View - historically the Argentine position was not to acknowledge for this case in particular the “self determination of peoples”, because 'kelpers' (Falkland Islanders) are a transplanted population, not aborigine.' (Malcorra S.,
Jul 03rd, 2025 - 02:42 pm - Link - Report abuse +3Argentine foreign minister, MercoPress, 10 Nov 2016).
Is the Falklands population an implanted population ? Falklands – Implanted Population (1 page):
https://www.academia.edu/30505159/Falklands_Implanted_Population
Every single white man on the American continent are of implanted stock, the one huge difference is that the Falklands where empty when the British claimed them,
Jul 03rd, 2025 - 03:04 pm - Link - Report abuse +3And what did the wonderful British armed forces do for the people of Diego Garcia - kicked them off their island. I am sick of the hypocrisy of the British state, the armed forces, and the millions of thick Brits who buy into this lie about defending freedom and human rights. Go to hell, the lot of you.
Jul 03rd, 2025 - 03:12 pm - Link - Report abuse -3You can piss off too Pytangua with your lies about a mythical Malvinas that never existed, a story made up by Peron to distract from his failing government, secondly the UK is far more educated than the Banana republic you live in, as far as Diego Garcia goes, its nothing to do with you full stop, the people that resided there happily took the compensation offered to them, so in your own words go to hell, its where brainwashed idiots like you belong,
Jul 03rd, 2025 - 03:28 pm - Link - Report abuse +3He also thanked all Mercosur member states for their support for the “sovereign claim to the Malvinas, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, and the surrounding maritime areas. The islands are Argentine territory, occupied since 1833 by a population implanted by the United Kingdom, after forcibly expelling the Argentine authorities.” (President Milei, Diario RioNegro 3 July 2025).
Jul 03rd, 2025 - 06:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ja ja
I see the little troll has stopped pretending to be British now, i think he is just a tad upset that nobody likes him,
Jul 03rd, 2025 - 06:12 pm - Link - Report abuse +1”The European Court of Human Rights has dismissed a case brought by Chagos Islanders claiming the right to return to their home in the Indian Ocean, bringing a long legal battle to a close.
Jul 04th, 2025 - 01:36 am - Link - Report abuse +1http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/9758451/Chagos-Islanders-defeated-in-European-Court.html
Britain’s manipulation of the principle of self-determination is clear for a number of reasons: 1) because the General Assembly of the United Nations, and not the colonial power, is the body in charge of determining the procedures to be followed in order to put an end to a colonial situation, and the highest organ of the United Nations has never applied such a principle to the current inhabitants of the islands; 2) because this is a special case of colonialism in which the victim of the colonial action was a recently established State; 3) because after the dispossession of Argentina, the British government established their own settlers; 4) because since then, it has controlled the migration policies of this isolated and scarcely populated territory; 5) because the current residents do not constitute a separate “people” who is a victim of colonial actions; 6) because the United Kingdom, after evicting Argentina and introducing its own settlers, rejected all proposals to negotiate and arbitration put forward by Argentina, while consolidating its presence in the islands.
Jul 10th, 2025 - 03:30 pm - Link - Report abuse -2Accepting that the British subjects living in the islands may themselves decide the Anglo- Argentine dispute would mean a flagrant and arbitrary example of imposing a fait accompli. If there is a people who is a victim of colonialism to whom the principle of self- determination can be applied here, that people is the Argentine people.
Credits: Kohen -Rodríguez
Malvinas islands:
Wednesday, July 9
Cloudy and rainy with a moderate southwest wind. Our people celebrated the swearing-in of Buenos Aires' independence.
María Saez de Vernet.
Britains manipulation of self determination ? you are being utterly ridiculous, its not a special case, only in your stupid deluded mind, you know very well that the UN have said NO exceptions, but you continue to lie and look foolish, Buenos Aires tried to block it and FAILED, let that sink in to you brainwashed mind,
Jul 10th, 2025 - 04:09 pm - Link - Report abuse +1as far as being Anglo Argentine, that ship sailed in 1982 after you launched an illegal war and an illegal invasion,
Kohen-Rodriguez who you get so excited about all over nobodies, just made up Argie propaganda and not remotely factual or independent, just like the made up story by Peron in the 1940s after 90 years of silence,
1833 you have no credibility what so ever, you have become a laughing stock and joined the stupid club with those other 2 clowns that have wasted over 10 years on this stupid rubbish, repeating the same old same old that has already been debunked 100s of times,
the Falklands are here to stay whether you like it or not, and no amount of crying. moaning, complaining and lying will change anything, get a life for crying out loud . tedious, boring, monotonous is what you have become,
Regarding the right of self-determination and the Falkland Islands here it is in simple terms: in 1946 the UN agreed to place the Falkland Islands on the list of Non-Self-Governing Territories. The UN states that the inhabitants of all Non-Self-Governing Territories have a right to self-determination. The Falklands are on the list, so they enjoy the right to self-determination.
Jul 10th, 2025 - 09:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Special case Argie troll ? delusional and desperation all rolled in to one,
Jul 10th, 2025 - 10:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Resolution 1541 (XV), 15 December 1960
Jul 10th, 2025 - 11:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The day after the Declaration on Decolonisation was adopted, the General Assembly adopted a further resolution, in order to define which territories were regarded by the UN as being covered by the Declaration. The specification of the Principles which should guide Members in determining whether or not an obligation exists to transmit the information called for under Article 73(e) of the Charter, includes the three options of (a) full independence, (b) “free association“ with another state or (c) integration with another state. If one of these options has been endorsed in a general election or in a referendum by the population of a colonial territory, they will be recognised as having achieved self-determination.
None of you have been able to tell me why the islands are British. Your arguments are based on a fanciful discovery in 1690. The islands appear on earlier maps, and other landings are even mentioned.
Jul 11th, 2025 - 11:23 am - Link - Report abuse -3You didn't discover the islands, you didn't settle them first, so I'm starting to believe you're the ones living in a fantasy.
Regards.
malvi
Jul 11th, 2025 - 01:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0isn't it time you got a hobby or a job instead of daydreaming?
hahaha, hey, that happens because you never invite us to have a beer, it's time, right?
Jul 11th, 2025 - 02:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Regards.
You have been given the historically recorded facts of the Falklands over and over again, by poster after poster week after week year after year, the fact that you choose to ignore it is irrelevant, lets look at your dubious claim. you claim Spain claimed the islands first, not true, Spain has never made that claim, you claim inheritance, that is bollocks, you where a break away region of the Spanish empire. nothing more, you claim Britain accepted Spanish authority another whopping great lie, you claimed you had a settlement there, a multi national failed business venture. led by 2 non United Province persons, you claim an eviction took place, everybody on those islands wanted to leave, most where persuaded to stay, 4 left 2 Brazilians and 2 Uruguayans, plus your murdering military who also where desperate to leave all your so called claims are utter and complete bollocks, and for decade after decade not a peep from Buenos Aires, then low and behold a very unpopular Argie politician makes a fairy tale up to try and distract the people, sounds familiar doesnt it, 1833 you are not right in the head, as said previously, collate all your wonderful facts give them to your government and let them take it to court. only that will never happen as you have no legal leg to stand on, a sad little boy posting sad little fairy tales who has an orgasm over K-R propaganda, one day you will wake up and realise how much time of your life you have wasted on a pack of lies.
Jul 11th, 2025 - 02:37 pm - Link - Report abuse +1@ Esteban:
Jul 11th, 2025 - 03:18 pm - Link - Report abuse -2All things being equal, the simplest explanation is usually the truth.
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In the series of incorrect events you describe, which occurred between Spain and its rebellious province, could you explain to me where Great Britain is located?
In any case, these events occurred on Spanish territory, because you conveniently omit to mention that Spanish settlers were present before the Argentine settlers settled there.
And you tell me that a supposed claim from 1690 has greater legal validity?
In any case, you didn't answer me; you haven't explained why the islands are british.
Yes 1833 in the scheme of things simplicity is key.
Jul 11th, 2025 - 03:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0no one knows for sure who sighted them first however a British ship sighted them
in 1592, A British ship then returned in 1594 recorded and claimed them for Britain, Spain does not dispute this, only you do, ten reasserted its claim in 1690, a claim never given up, British ships constantly visited the islands, Spain and France news this,
British settlers where in the Falklands before the Spanish, that is a fact,
can you explain to me where Spain and Italy are ?
I agree Spanish landed settlers in the Falklands on land already claimed by Britain, British settlers where usurped and forced out as Spain had a larger military there, Britain protested and threatened war, Spain backed down, its quite simple,
is that simple enough for you, so the islands where British before any other country, and long before you existed as a country, now be a good little boy and go read Roger Lortons full disclosure of the history of the Falklands its available on the net, and is a dam sight more truthful than your orgasmic feelings of K-R,
Argentina was never in the game, and Argentina is not Spain,
Why are the Falklands British, Marv?
Jul 11th, 2025 - 10:32 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Easy
Effective possession of the Western Isles from 1771.
Effective possession of the Spanish island of Soledad from 1833.
Continuous, open, and peaceful possession.
Usucapion. Acquisitive prescription.
All Argentina has, is a contested inheritance
The Argentine troll needs some professional help, at the very least some counselling, he says how far is the UK from the Falklands ?, almost the same distance as Spain is from the Falklands, as for the inheritance bs, firstly when you break away from an Empire you dont inherit diddly squat, when the 13 colonies broke away from Britain they didnt inherit Jamaica, Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados or any other British territory, the United Provinces didnt inherit Chile. Uruguay Peru, Bolivia or ay other Spanish speaking territory, and 1,000,000 did not inherit the Falklands, that assumption by the troll is barking mad, so troll so EDF is not wrong troll, quite the opposite, further more the UP knew full well that the islands where British, twice warned not to send the military and then warned to leave after they landed, Buenos Aires tried to play a political game, just like they did in 82,only they lost the game both times, your view on history is so wrong its laughable, and only children believe that fairy story, you had no sovereignty, no inheritance, no settlement and no claim, wasting day after day on a lie and fairy tale says what type of a person you are, no such place as the Malvinas islands, never has been and never will be, end of discussion,
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