New negotiations on the Falklands are apparently ruled out because their future "can only be decided by the islanders in accordance with the UN principle of self-determination" (Hand back the Falklands, Argentina tells Cameron, 3 January).Can we expect the government to follow the same principle on the rights of the Chagos people in relation to their Diego Garcia home? They are British citizens, roughly the same number as inhabit the Falkland Islands, and had lived in Diego Garcia since the Read more [...]

Britain and Argentina were on Thursday embroiled in a fresh war of words over the Falkland Islands after Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner wrote an open letter to Prime Minister David Cameron demanding the return of the disputed territory, and describing the British claim on it as “a blatant exercise of 19th Century colonialism”.Within hours, Downing Street firmly rejected any negotiations and said it would “do everything to protect the interests of the Falklands islanders”.The Read more [...]

2013-01-03 17:28 (Picture: AP) (Facundo Arrizabalaga) Multimedia   ·   User Galleries   ·   News in Pictures Send us your pictures  Â·  Send us your stories London - The war of words between Britain and Argentina over the disputed Falkland Islands flared anew on Thursday, with London firmly rejecting the charge of "blatant colonialism" leveled Read more [...]

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LONDON: Argentine President Cristina Kirchner published an open letter in the British press on Thursday calling on Prime Minister David Cameron to return the disputed Falkland Islands. In the letter, published as an advert in several national newspapers, Kirchner said the South Atlantic islands were "forcibly stripped" from Argentina 180 years ago today "in a blatant exercise of 19th-century colonialism". "Since then, Britain, the colonial power, has refused to return the territories to the Read more [...]

David Cameron has said he will "do everything" to protect the interests of the Falkland islanders following a demand by Argentina's populist president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, to hand back the islands, 30 years after Britain and Argentina went to war over them.In a stinging letter to Cameron, Fernández urged the UK to abide by a 1960 United Nations resolution urging member states to "end colonialism in all its forms and manifestations".Britain should begin negotiations over the sovereignty Read more [...]

Argentina's president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, has written a letter to David Cameron urging the UK, a "colonial power", to abide by a UN resolution to "end colonialism in all its forms and manifestations" and return the Malvinas/Falkland Islands to Argentina.In the Telegraph Nile Gardiner, a former aide to Margaret Thatcher, says the letter, which is published as an advert in newspapers today, is "stuffed full of falsehoods and has no regard for reality". He argues: "The Falklands Read more [...]

ARGENTINA’S president today launches a fresh attack on Britain by declaring her nation was “forcibly stripped” of the Falkland Islands. Cristina Kirchner has put an advert in UK and US newspapers demanding David Cameron restores power to the South American country. The ad, set to appear in some broadsheets on the 180th anniversary of the alleged takeover, takes the form of an open letter to the PM. She says Argentines were “expelled by the Royal Navy” on January 3, 1833, “in a blatant Read more [...]

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Buenos Aires, January 3rd, 2013Mr Prime Minister David Cameron,One hundred and eighty years ago on the same date, January 3rd, in a blatant exercise of 19th-century colonialism, Argentina was forcibly stripped of the Malvinas Islands, which are situated 14,000km (8700 miles) away from London.The Argentines on the Islands were expelled by the Royal Navy and the United Kingdom subsequently began a population implantation process similar to that applied to other territories under colonial rule.Since Read more [...]