Lets see the British arguments: 1-The Arana-Southern Treaty was a sovereignity recognizion (can they prove it? -NO) 2- Britain held sovereignity over the islands, regardless an absence of presence of more than 50 years (can they prove it ? -NO) 3- The uti possidetis principle does not apply (can they prove it? -NO) 4- The Islands never were part of the Viceroyalty or Spain (can they prove it? -NO) 5- For some reason Argentina did not inherit the former Spanish territory (can they prove it? -NO) 6- For the International Law the United Provinces and Argentina are 2 different states (can they prove it? -NO) 7- The self-determination right is a key factor in this dispute (can they prove it? -NO) 8- That a plaque is legally valuable to prove sovereignity over a land (can they prove it? -NO) 9- Britain held sovereignity over the Islands, eventhough they can not find one single document previous to 1833 saying specifically that the Falkland Islands were officially under British sovereignity. And the list of nonsense goes on and on. I just stick with what their own politicians said about this question: The only question is: Who did have the best claim when we finally annexed the islands ... I think undoubtedly the United Provinces of Buenos Aires [now Argentina]. We cannot easily make out a good claim and we have wisely done everything to avoid discussing the subject. - Ronald Camp, Foreign Office official, internal foreign office minutes, July 1911 We can have no confidence in our claim to the islands succeeding in the event of it being submitted to arbitration. - John Vyvyan, second secretary at the Foreign Office, internal minute, July 24th, 1935 Our case for sovereignty in the Falklands Islands has certain weaknesses. - George Fitzmaurice, legal advisor, Foreign Office, February 1936 The difficulty of the position is that our seizure of the Falkland Islands in 1833 was so arbitrary a procedure as judged by the idealogy of the present day. It is therefore not easy to explain our possession without showing ourselves up as international bandits. - John Troutbeck, head of American department, Foreign Office, October 1936
Posted on: Tue, 13 May 2014 23:21:48 +0000
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