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Old 17th Feb 2010, 13:52
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Jackonicko
 
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"my government and all the Argentinian Republic is not going to stop claiming its rights over those islands.

It is a state policy written with the blood of our people."


Nice rhetoric, but unjustifiable, offensive and empty posturing.

Argentina has NO legitimate claim over the Falklands, whose population are:

61.3% Falkland Islander
29.0% British
2.6% Spaniard
0.6% Japanese
6.5% Chilean & Other

Have you heard of self determination?

Or is it on some other basis?

Occupation/control
France 1764-66
Britain 1775-1770, 1771-1776, 1833-date
Spain 1766-1811
Argentina 1828-1833

Sovereignty
Spain 1811-1820
Argentina 1820-1833
Britain 1833-date

Proximity
The Falklands are 300 miles from mainland Argentina – almost the whole of Uruguay lies closer to Buenos Aires than the Falklands are to Argentina. Do you claim Uruguay on the same basis? And Chile perhaps?
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