Tag: C24

• Monday, June 27th 2022 - 10:57 UTC

  Falklands in agenda of Fernandez bilateral meeting with Johnson at G7

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernandez confirmed that this Monday afternoon, at the G7 summit in Munich he will be holding a fifteen minutes bilateral talk with UK prime minister Boris Johnson in which he plans to bring up the issue of the Falkland Islands.

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• Friday, June 24th 2022 - 10:18 UTC

  C24 resolution calls on Argentina and UK to resume Falklands' negotiations

  

  The Special Committee on Decolonization adopted on Thursday a resolution requesting the Governments of Argentina and the United Kingdom to consolidate the current process of dialogue through the resumption of negotiations to find a peaceful solution to the sovereignty dispute relating to the question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas).

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• Friday, June 24th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Argentina and C24 members want a return of real colonialism to Falklands and Southwest Atlantic, MLA Short

  

  My name is Gavin Short and I am a democratically elected representative of the Government and people of the Falkland Islands and my family have lived there for 173 years.

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• Friday, June 24th 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  Falklands challenges C24 to visit the Islands: the inconvenient truth a bully Argentina wants to hide, MLA Roberts

  

  Chair, Committee Members – my name is Leona Roberts and I am proud to be one of the eight elected representatives of the Falkland Islands Government. I am here today to speak for our people and to defend our tiny, democratic, and freedom-loving country against the colonial ambitions of our aggressive neighbor.

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• Monday, June 20th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  UK domestic problems could favor resumption of talks on Falklands with Argentina, says Malvinas secretary

  

  The head of the Argentine Secretariat on Malvinas, Argentine Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands who will be also attending the UN Special Decolonization Committee this week said he was optimistic about a resumption of Falklands/Malvinas discussions with the UK.

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• Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

  The status of 'city' granted to Stanley by the Queen, another Argentine complaint in the next C24, June 23

  

  Next June 23 Argentina will renew its request before the UN Special Committee on Decolonization, or C24, for the United Kingdom to resume negotiations on the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty dispute, which have been suspended for forty years following the South Atlantic conflict.

• Wednesday, May 25th 2022 - 09:46 UTC

  Carmona makes UN C24 round before the coming Falklands/Malvinas debate in June

  

  In anticipation of the coming annual meeting of United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization or C24, Argentina's Secretary of Malvinas, Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands, Guillermo Carmona was at UN headquarters for a couple of days with the “purpose of consolidating supports”, indicated Argentine pro government media.

• Saturday, December 11th 2021 - 08:12 UTC

  “All Human, All Equal”, Falklands Government advocates Human Rights Day

  

  The Falkland Islands Government remembers Human Rights Day with the following statement, ”Today, Friday 10 December, is the United Nations Human Rights Day, which was established in 1950 to draw the attention of ‘the peoples of the world’ to the inalienable rights of individuals as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

• Thursday, August 26th 2021 - 07:17 UTC

  C24 Caribbean Regional Seminar at Saint John, Dominica

  

  The Special Committee on Decolonization is holding the 2021 Caribbean Regional Seminar in the Parish of Saint John, Dominica, from Wednesday 25 to 27 August 2021, within the framework of the start of the Fourth International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism (2021-2030). The Seminar, initially scheduled for 19 to 21 May, was postponed due to the situation relating to the coronavirus pandemic.

• Wednesday, August 19th 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Falklands or Malvinas? Market-based referendum proposal

  

  By Steve Hank (*) – On August 4, Argentina, the world’s biggest deadbeat, announced that it had reached a deal with its creditors on its US$ 65 billion worth of defaulted debt. The next day, the United Nations Decolonization Committee — the C24 — unanimously passed a resolution urging the United Kingdom and Argentina to resolve their differences over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands. Or, are they the Malvinas?