Argentina calls for Falklands negotiations, Britain says no

Associated Press ^ | Jun 23, 2016 6:42 PM EDT | Michael Astor

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Recovering sovereignty of the Falkland Islands remains a “permanent and unrelinquished” objective of the Argentine people, the country’s foreign minister said Thursday, calling for negotiations over the dispute over the wind-swept archipelago to be resolved through negotiations.

Britain, meanwhile, rejected any discussion over sovereignty despite a United Nations committee’s adopting a non-binding resolution calling for a negotiated solution.

Susana Malcorra told the Special Committee on Decolonization that the concept of self-determination is not absolute and did not apply in the case of the Falklands because the current inhabitants had been placed there by Britain after they seized the islands in 1833. […]

“The 2013 referendum — in which 99.8 percent of those who voted wanted to maintain their current status — sent a clear message that the people of the islands do not want dialogue on sovereignty. Argentina should respect those wishes,” the British Mission to the U.N. said in an emailed statement. …

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Brezhnev took Afghanistan
Begin took Beirut
Galtieri took the Union Jack
and Maggie over lunch one day
took a cruiser with all hands
apparently to make him give it back

Yes, apparently Roger Waters didn’t approve. But I say, “Good Show, Maggie!”

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I approve of whatever Waters the antisemite disapproves of.