G77 + China reaffirms support for Argentina over Falklands sovereignty and natural resources

Saturday, October 4th 2025 - 10:59 UTC

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The Group of 77 + China has reiterated its “strong support” for Argentina’s sovereignty claims over the Falkland Islands and surrounding maritime areas, urging Buenos Aires and London to resume negotiations to find a peaceful resolution to the long-standing dispute. Read full article

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Islander1
Sorry Argentina - British Flag was first raised over the Islands 260 years ago.
First recorded British landing from a Royal Navy ship was approx 75 years even earlier.
Oct 04th, 2025 - 01:13 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
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Falklands-Free
That message goes to China and Isreal as well. Keep your noses out of our bussiness. Both countries are run by dictators. One of them is going to extract the oil .Going to be interesting whete Isreal loyalty lies when that happens.
Two faced comes to mind.
Oct 04th, 2025 - 03:08 pm - Link - Report abuse +3
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Jack Jones
War criminal Netenyahu did it in response to the UK recognising Palestine as a state, nothing more than a silly political game of a 6 year old, as for China, they do it for their own political reasons not because they really believe it, Taiwan,
Oct 04th, 2025 - 07:21 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
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Steve Potts
Why?

Vattel's “Law of Nations” (1758) emphasizes that sovereignty over unoccupied lands requires actual occupation and settlement, not just discovery or brief presence. In the Falklands, Argentina's 1820s efforts were short-lived and contested, while Britain's since 1833 has been continuous.
Oct 05th, 2025 - 10:16 am - Link - Report abuse +1
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Terence Hill
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.
Oct 08th, 2025 - 03:34 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
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Don Alberto
Whatever happened before, Argentina's assault and war on the British Falkland Islands, and UK's recovery of the islands settles all claims. The Falkland Islands are British. The End.
Oct 10th, 2025 - 10:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Terence Hill
”The principle of territorial integrity established by Resolution 1514 (XV).
Was overm-ruled by the subsequent Rresolution

“..It is therefore not surprising that the General Assembly declared in 1970 that the modem prohibition against the acquisition of territory by conquest should not be construed as affecting titles to territory created 'prior to the Charter regime and valid under international law'..”GA Resolution 2625 (XXV), 24 Oct. 1970).”

Akehurst's Modern Introduction To International Law by Peter Malanczuk
Oct 11th, 2025 - 03:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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