Wednesday 28 March 2012

'It makes no sense to negotiate with Argentina,' Falklands Governor


On the verge of the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War, the British Governor of the South Atlantic Islands Nigel Haywood told reporters that negotiating with Argentina “makes no sense as long as Buenos Aires keeps denying the Islanders right of self-determination.”

In conversations with a French news agency, Haywood remarked that the islands “are British, and we have all rights over the territory plus the islanders want to be British.”

Likewise, Haywood emphasized that “Argentina is constantly defying the Islanders right of self-determination, hence negotiations are totally pointless.”

Furthermore, the British official said that “the sovereignty of the Islands cannot be negotiated if they keep skipping the islanders’ opinion disobeying the United Nations’ charter on regards people’s right of self-determination.”

Haywood also unveiled that a referendum to see whether islanders want to remain British or not could be conducted among islanders in case the UN ask them to do so.

Comments came after the British government led by Primer Minister David Cameron said it will always respect the islanders’ right of self-determination before Argentina’s claims of sovereignty over the Falkland Islands invaded by British forces in 1833.  

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