India, Brazil, And South Africa Want Argentina To Join Brics

[ajoknoblauch]

Argentina can't even manage Argentina why do they need some extra territory to mismanage? If I lived in the Falklands I would tremble at the very thought of Crazy Xtina guiding my ship.

Having lived there more than a year and returned at semi-regular intervals, I can confirm that Islanders agree with your opinion, but do not tremble.

 

[scotttswan]

Is the big scary military complex on the Falkland islands.... Uruguay and Brazil should be terrified! :lol:

 

[ghost]

Is the big scary military complex on the Falkland islands.... Uruguay and Brazil should be terrified! :lol:

Just over the horizon at 12 o'clock and about 200 meters down is something really scary.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

Is the big scary military complex on the Falkland islands.... Uruguay and Brazil should be terrified! :lol:

Not only that - the troop strength, some 2000, is trained to take over the continent at any moment.

 

[ghost]

Having lived there more than a year and returned at semi-regular intervals, I can confirm that Islanders agree with your opinion, but do not tremble.

What does one do in the Falklands for a year? Count sheep?

 

[scotttswan]

What does one do in the Falklands for a year? Count sheep?

Study Penguins?

 

[ajoknoblauch]

What does one do in the Falklands for a year? Count sheep?

Hike, watch wildlife, get to know locals, read through the archives (I had a Fulbright).

 

[Joe]

What does one do in the Falklands for a year? Count sheep?

It's the furthest place in the world to escape from the Ayn acolytes.

 

[pauper]

I know nothing about Campora, and Galtieri is burning in hell with Margaret Thatcher, but as far as La Presidenta, you have done her a grave disservice. Allow me to show you this document from the UN Special Committee on Decolonisation. The document is dated 21 June 2011, and refers to an appearance by President Kirchner before the General Assembly of the United Nations, saying-

Also on 24 September, according to the paper, Argentina’s President in the General Assembly claimed “respect for our sovereign rights over the Malvinas Islands”, underlining that the United Kingdom had refused to implement Assembly resolutions calling for negotiations with her country on the question of sovereignty. Unilateral decisions had been taken by the United Kingdom to exploit hydrocarbon resources on the Islands, she said, which constituted a “depredation of natural resources that belong to us” and entailed “the risk of ecological catastrophe”.

Yes, Argentina's slightly mystifying annual appearance at the Special Committee on Decolonization - nothing better illustrates the incoherence of the Argentine position. By screaming colonialism each year at this event Argentina seems to be supporting the activities of the committee in regards to the Falklands and its classification of the islands as a Non-self-governing territory, ie - that the future status of the Falklands should be determined through dialogue between the committee, the governing power and the inhabitants of the territory (ie:not Argentina). The committee (full name: Special Committee on the Situation with Regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples) has no remit to resolve sovereignty disputes.

There is of course an institution with such a remit but Argentina has mysteriously never sought recourse there even going so far as to refuse consent to multiple British applications for ICJ arbitration over their even more ridiculous claims over the South Sandwich and South Georgia islands.

The same document also says -

On the other side of the issue, petitioner María Angélica Vernet, Director of the National Historical Museum of the Buenos Aires Old Town Hall and May Revolution, traced her roots to the Malvinas Islands, where Argentine citizens had been stripped of their property and expelled by the United Kingdom in 1833. The population on the islands today was not a people in the legal sense of the term, as they were British either by birth or by origin. “The usurpation of the Malvinas Islands in 1833 was the usurpation of a territory that, both in fact and in law, belonged to Argentina,” she insisted.

Do you mean María Angélica Vernet who claims to be great great granddaughter of Luis Vernet the Hamburg born French trader who sought and received British permission to fish and hunt seals on the Falklands and requested British protection should forces return? The Luis Vernet who arrived on the islands in 1829, was appointed governer by the Government of Buenos Aires the same year (invoking British protest) and who returned to Buenos Aires in 1831 after seizing other sealers in an attempt to create a monopoly?

 

[pauper]

...oh and who issued his own worthless Vernet coins to his workers, the devaluation of which eventually led to a rebellion and the murder of 5 settlers due to the poor conditions they were forced to live under? Is this starting to sound familiar to anyone?