Tag: UN Decolonization Committee (C24)

• Monday, June 24th 2013 - 03:03 UTC

  Falklands: Sierra Leone says self-determination is paramount and supports sending C24 mission to the Islands

  

  Sierra Leone, member of the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization maintained that the rights of the Islanders, present in the Falkland/Malvinas Islands for 180 years, should be paramount to any settlement and that self determination was the guiding principle of any resolution to the question. “There is no dispute that the people are the holders of the right to self-determination”.

• Friday, June 21st 2013 - 06:34 UTC

  Malvinas referendum has left dispute resolution “hostage in London”, claims Timerman

  

  Foreign minister Hector Timerman once again anticipated Argentina’s willingness to overcome the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands sovereignty conflict through dialogue, but unfortunately a resolution of the dispute was ‘hostage in London’ and of UK’s ‘imperial disdain’.

• Friday, June 21st 2013 - 06:26 UTC

  Falklands: “last thing we want is religion inserted in the dispute”

  

  A top Falkland Islands’ politician and Britain's UN envoy shrugged off the idea of the Pope intervening in the long-running sovereignty dispute over the Falklands/Malvinas and South Atlantic islands, as was suggested at one point by Argentine President Cristina Fernandez.

• Thursday, June 20th 2013 - 16:40 UTC

  C24 ‘no longer relevant’ and is ‘insulting’ to describe BOT/London relations as colonial

  

  The Decolonization Committee is no longer relevant and to describe the relation of British Overseas Territories with the UK as colonial is insulting both for the BOT and London, said a Foreign Office spokeswoman following Thursday session when the Falklands/Malvinas case was debated at the UN C24.

• Thursday, June 20th 2013 - 16:19 UTC

  Falklands’ people happy exercising self-determination and with ‘current relationship with UK’

  

  Falkland Islands representatives told the Special Decolonization Committee that under UN resolutions non self governing territories are entitled to exercise self determination and self government and C24 does not have the responsibility to judge on that right. Likewise the Falklands’ representatives again invited C24 to visit the Islands (seventh time) but with no reply.

• Thursday, June 20th 2013 - 05:56 UTC

  Falklands’ fresh with referendum results will challenge the C24 and Argentina

  

  Argentina and the Falkland Islands meet on Thursday at the UN Decolonization Committee, C24 to discuss the South Atlantic Islands sovereignty dispute, and contrary to last year when the big show was the attendance of President Cristina Fernandez, this time it will be the Falklands’ turn with the indisputable fresh results of the March referendum and their right to self-determination.

• Wednesday, June 19th 2013 - 02:56 UTC

  Malvinas C24 Argentina petitioners: Maria Angelia Vernet and Alejandro Betts

  

  Maria Angelica Vernet and Falklands’ born Alejandro Betts will be Argentina’s petitioners at Thursday’s June 20 United Nations Decolonization Committee session in New York when the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty dispute will be addressed.

• Tuesday, June 18th 2013 - 07:33 UTC

  Falklands’ C24 debate: Timerman heads Argentine delegation and includes two governors

  

  The governors, from Tierra del Fuego and Santa Fe will be part of the delegation when the Argentine presentation before the UN Decolonisation Committee on the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute, next Thursday June 20 in New York.

• Thursday, June 13th 2013 - 06:46 UTC

  Falklands at C 24 June 20; UN Committee supports sending missions to Non-self Governing Territories

  

  The United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization, or C 24, will be hearing the Falklands/Malvinas question in a week’s time, Thursday June 20, after having heard those relative to Gibraltar and Western Sahara on Wednesday 12 June.

• Thursday, June 13th 2013 - 06:27 UTC

  Malvinas: Argentine lawmakers invited to deliver their position before the Irish parliament

  

  A delegation of Argentine lawmakers headed by the presidents of the foreign affairs committees from the Senate, Daniel Filmus and Lower House, Guillermo Carmona are currently in Dublin where they will discuss with their peers and Irish authorities Argentina’s position in the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute.