A brilliant speech about the Falklands
Roger Edwards, an elected member of the Falkland Islands legislative assembly, made an excellent speech yesterday to the "decolonisation committee" of the United Nations, meeting in Ecuador, in which he suggested that the only way forward for the UN concerning and debates or claims about the future of the islands is to respect the right to self-determination of the inhabitants.
You can read a MercoPress (South Atlantic News) report which includes the full text of his speech at http://en.mercopress.com/2012/05/31/self-determination-only-way-that-leads-to-a-peaceful-permanent-solution-of-falklands-dispute.
You can read a MercoPress (South Atlantic News) report which includes the full text of his speech at http://en.mercopress.com/2012/05/31/self-determination-only-way-that-leads-to-a-peaceful-permanent-solution-of-falklands-dispute.
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But the fact that Britain's treatment of the residents of the Chagos archipelago was not one of our finest hours is no reason to deny self-determination to the residents of the Falkland Islands. Two wrongs don't make a right.