It will be a very long time before a British government could survive politically if they negotiated the Falklands.
The Flaklands belong to Uruguay!
by Splash 94 Replies latest social current
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Chariklo
Emily will undoubtedly be here any minute now.
The point is, the islanders all want to remain British. In March they get the chance to vote and once again express their opinion. No prizes for guessing how they'll vote!
No wonder Argentina is banging their drums again! (Figuratively speaking, of course.)
Here are some useful links for anyone interested.
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Chariklo
"Members of the (Falklands) Legislative Assembly to meet with the Argentine Foreign Minister
The Falkland Islands Government has been advised that the Argentine Foreign Minister will visit London next week, and has requested a meeting with the UK Foreign Secretary William Hague.
Mr Hague has told the Government of Argentina he would be happy to meet Mr Timerman. At that meeting he would want to raise the UK Government’s serious concerns about Argentina’s policy towards the Falkland Islands.
He has also made it clear that, for any conversation on Falkland Islands issues, the Falkland Islands Government must be represented.
Mr Hague has also reiterated to Argentina that there can never be any negotiations over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands unless and until the Falkland Islanders so wish. The Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly believes that the result of the forthcoming referendum will demonstrate definitively that we do not. Should the issue of sovereignty be raised at the meeting, it will not be discussed.
Members of the Legislative Assembly made it clear in their letter of 2012 to President Fernandez de Kirchner (details of which were made public on June 15, 2012), that the Falkland Islands Government is willing to meet with the Government of Argentina in order to make our views clear, and to discuss matters of mutual interest including fisheries and communication. Therefore, MLA Dick Sawle and MLA Jan Cheek will travel to London this weekend to be available to take part in this discussion.
We want to reassure anyone concerned by this that we are not going to be negotiating any deal with Argentina. Rather we are anticipating a full and frank exchange of views. Indeed we look forward to giving Mr Timerman some very direct messages on the unacceptability of Argentina’s actions against the Falkland Islands in recent years. We demand that our rights be respected, and that we be left in peace to choose our own future and to develop our country for our children and generations to come. It is only right that he should hear this directly from us, as well as from Mr Hague.
The Legislative Assembly of the Falkland Islands."
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besty
The point is Argentina ceded any tenuous claims and goodwill irrevocably by commiting an act of war in 1982
The sooner they accept that, the sooner they can focus their attention on more pressing problems of their own.
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Chariklo
Diverting attention from their more pressing problems is just one reason for their current belligerent attitude.
And with the world's attention moving towards South America for football, (soccer to those of you on the other side of the Atlantic) and the Olympics, they want to keep the noise coming.
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Satanus
From what i hear, argentina is a much nicer country than england is, although less stable. Flaklanders could loosen up and learn to dance.
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Amelia Ashton
Diverting attention from their more pressing problems is just one reason for their current belligerent attitude.
Politicians do that over here too
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james_woods
Countdown to "Las Malvinas" showing up on this thread....10....9.....8....7.....
Let's start a pool. Let's set the over/under on her first post to 700 words. Any takers?
I was just about to post the same thing. 700 sounds about right.
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problemaddict
This is kind of hilarious. Uruguay is like the only place to NOT have a claim to the islands.
Look it seems like it should be Argentinas, but the UK has been the administration there since the 30's, and the best Argentina can do is say they "inherited" it from Spain in the early 1800's. Spain and the UK both claimed it.....and left. It was uninhabited when Europeans went there a few hundred years ago. The 1982 invasion was from a ridiculous leader in Argentina who was trying to deflect from the economic condition of the country.
If its one thing Argentina has (besides a beautiful country), its national pride in spades. So the "war" did its job, just under a thousand people died, and it still belongs to the UK. The biggest point of all? The resident WANT it to remain British.
So here is what should happen. Argentina and UK find a way to share in investment and distribution of the resouces, and Britain doesn't expand drilling into Argentinas maritime claims locally out of respect.
Don't the sheep here outnumber the people 200 to 1?
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Chariklo
Problem addict, the Falklands have been British since 1765! And the Falklanders have been there, some of them for NINE generations!
Not since the 1930's! You possibly misunderstood a century, as formal British administration has been constant since 1833. If my understanding is correct. The sites I linked to above contain a full history.
But the big factor is that the UN have agreed that all lands have a right to self-determination, and the Falklanders, not by any means all British by descent, all choose to remain under British protection and see themselves as British. Argentina is much more concerned about the mineral wealth of the area. They are seen as the invading aggressors, and Britain will always defend the islanders' right to be governed as they choose.