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Montevideo, April 18th 2024 - 06:13 UTC

Tag: UN Decolonization Committee (C24)

  • Friday, June 26th 2015 - 06:02 UTC

    UN Decolonization Committee supports Argentina's Falklands/Malvinas claims

    Hector Timerman said that UK's unwillingness to negotiate, “Far from making the smallest effort to solve the controversy, they irresponsibly aggravate it”

    The United Nations Decolonization Committee approved on Thursday a new resolution urging the United Kingdom to discuss the Falklands/Malvinas dispute with Argentina, in order to find a peaceful solution to the conflict. The decision came as no surprise since it has become an annual event despite Falklands' representatives demand for C24 to act in support of Non Self Governing Territories.

  • Thursday, June 25th 2015 - 14:37 UTC

    ”Argentina seeks to colonize the Falklands against the wishes of its people”

    “Up-holding the basic human rights of the people of the Non Self-Governing Territories is your single and solemn duty” pointed out MLA Summers

    Falkland Islands lawmaker Mike Summers called on the UN Special Decolonisation Committee to uphold the basic human rights of the people of the Non Self-Governing Territories, particularly self determination, argued that C24 has no mandate to discuss competing claims over NSGTs and cautioned that in supporting Argentine colonial aspirations in the Falkland Islands, “you are complicit in supporting Argentina’s bullying and harassment”.

  • Thursday, June 25th 2015 - 14:31 UTC

    “It is the duty of C24 to acknowledge the rights of the Falkland Islands and not support those who covet our territory”

    ”We have chosen the internationally recognised status of a British Overseas Territory: a modern self-governing relationship with the United Kingdom (UK)”

    The Falkland Islands' long journey from a colony to a self governing, financially autonomous territory, was underlined on Thursday, by lawmaker Phyl Rendell in her presentation to the United Nations Special Decolonization Committee. But so was the fact that advancing development, and relations with the continent are always under threat from Argentina, “who makes no secret of wanting to control our territory against our wishes”.

  • Thursday, June 25th 2015 - 12:15 UTC

    The “Argentine Kelper” Didn’t Go to the United Nations this Year.

    Betts is not with Argentine delegation to the UN Decolonisation meeting, which is discussing the Falklands in New York today.

    The myths surrounding Alexander Betts are beginning to unravel. He is the Falkland Islander who went to Argentina at the end of the 1982 Falklands war; adopted the Spanish version of his name, and portrayed himself as an honourable man who had carefully studied Falklands’ history and reached the conclusion that the Falklands belonged to Argentina.

  • Monday, June 15th 2015 - 06:29 UTC

    Falkland Islands receives US support on the issue of “self determination”

    “MLA Summers and Rendell have been very encouraged by the high levels of support in all areas for the Falklands and our right to self determination”.

    Falkland Islands' elected lawmakers received assurances in Washington that US neutrality in the sovereign dispute with Argentina does not imply any denial of the Falkland Islanders right to self determination.

  • Wednesday, May 20th 2015 - 22:09 UTC

    Falklands: “We are an Overseas Territory, very content with the status and endorsed in the 2013 referendum”

    MLA Rendell invited the C24 chairman to visit the Falkland Islands.

    The Falkland Islands are very pleased with their current political and democratic status based on the UN charter and confirmed in the 2013 referendum, enjoy a prosperous economy with emphasis on social policies and environment conservation and have good neighborly relations with nearby countries, except for Argentina that “continues to ignore our people's right to self-determination and covet our territory”.

  • Tuesday, March 24th 2015 - 04:55 UTC

    Falklands' defense review full statement from Secretary Fallon expected soon

    UK MoD spokesperson was quoted saying that: “there is a defense review and an announcement will be made about it. There will be a full statement by Michael Fallon”.

    A statement from UK Defense secretary Michael Fallon relative to the Falkland Islands' garrison is expected sometime this week, according to reports in the British media. The Falklands' military response capacity has been a matter of much ongoing debate among analysts and former officers, as Argentina allegedly is involved in increased military expenditure.

  • Sunday, December 21st 2014 - 11:39 UTC

    C24 slammed for failing to visit Falklands

    Britain ’s ambassador to the United Nations Sir Mark Lyall Grant

    Britain ’s ambassador to the United Nations has hit out at the UN’s Special Committee on Decolonisation (C24) for its “outdated” approach to dealing with overseas territories.

  • Saturday, November 15th 2014 - 01:13 UTC

    Parlasur dialogue with Kelpers: a great opportunity lost

    “Taking into account the interests of the Islands population”, many of whose ancestors have been living there since the 1850s, is basic for any resolution.

    By Jaime Trobo (*) - Parlasur, acronym for Mercosur Parliament, decided to approve a declaration relative to the Malvinas Islands situation, and more specifically on the sovereignty conflict between the Argentine Republic and Great Britain, which has been ongoing for over 180 years with no reasonable accord.

  • Tuesday, October 21st 2014 - 02:10 UTC

    Why Falklands are not extended the right to self determination: “shame on G24”

    Luke Coffey is a Margaret Thatcher Fellow of the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy of the Heritage Foundation

    Since 1961 the UN Committee of 24 has brought almost 750 million people out of a colonial status, based on their right of self-determination, but “what a shame it won’t extend this same right to another 2,500 people of the Falkland Islands”, said US born Luke Coffey, member of the Heritage Foundation and one time advisor to the UK Defense ministry.