UN / FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS)

Argentina's foreign minister Susana Malcorra reiterated “the full willingness” of her government to resume negotiations with the United Kingdom in order to find a “peaceful and definite solution” to the sovereignty dispute of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas). UNIFEED-UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:34
• Production Date: 23 June 2016
• Asset Language: English; Spanish
• Personal Subject: SUSANA MALCORRA
• Subject Topical: DECOLONIZATION
• Geographic Subject: ARGENTINA; FALKLAND ISLANDS - MALVINAS; UNITED KINGDOM
• MAMS Id: 1654862
• Parent Id: 1654862
• Alternate Title: unifeed160623f

Description

STORY: UN / FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS)
TRT: 2:34
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: SPANISH / ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 23 JUNE 2016, NEW YORK CITY

Shotlist

RECENT – NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior, tilt up United Nations Headquarters

23 JUNE 2016, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, conference room
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Susana Malcorra, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Argentina:
“I would like to reiterate before the special committee the full willingness of the Argentina government to resume negotiations with the United Kingdom in order to find a peaceful and definite solution to the sovereignty dispute as stated in the successive relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and of this committee.”
4. Med shot, Argentine foreign minister speaking
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Susana Malcorra, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Argentina:
“Not all decolonization cases are solved by applying the principle of self-determination since in cases such as this one there is an underlying sovereignty dispute that has to be solved by the parties to it, that is the Argentine Republic and the United Kingdom.”
6. Wide shot, conference room
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Susana Malcorra, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Argentina:
“The principle of self-determination cannot violate the territorial integrity of existing states. This is why self-determination does not apply to the current inhabitants of the Malvinas Islands, who are not recognized as a people which can exercise this right under United Nations resolutions.”
8. Med shot, Argentine foreign minister ending her speech
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Summers, Representative of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas):
“If this committee were to visit the Falkland Islands -as invited every year – you could see for yourselves the great substantial economic progress we have made and we are not a colony of the United Kingdom.”
10. Med shot, chair of the committee
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Summers, Representative of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas):
“Our wish to maintain our current status was amply demonstrated in March 2013 by a referendum in which the Falkland Islands have resolved to remain an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. The turnout for the referendum was 92 percent, and 99.8 percent voted in favour.”
13. Wide shot, conference room
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Summers, Representative of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas):
“And as agreed and stated on the consistent paces through several governments that they would not discuss sovereignty of the islands, unless and until the islands do so wish it. Very clearly, at the present time, we do not so wish and that remains the position.”
15. Wide shot, meeting ending

Storyline

Argentina's foreign minister Susana Malcorra reiterated “the full willingness” of her government to resume negotiations with the United Kingdom in order to find a “peaceful and definite solution” to the sovereignty dispute of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas).

The UN Decolonization Committee has approved today (23 Jun) another resolution calling on the United Kingdom and Argentina to negotiate a solution to their dispute over the Falkland Islands.

Speaking at that UN Forum, Malcorra stressed that the call to resume the negotiations was “stated in the successive relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and of this committee.”

In reference to the principle of self-determination, the Argentine foreign minister said “not all decolonization cases are solved by applying the principle of self-determination since in cases such as this one there is an underlying sovereignty dispute that has to be solved by the parties to it, that is the Argentine Republic and the United Kingdom.”

She added “the principle of self-determination cannot violate the territorial integrity of existing states. This is why self-determination does not apply to the current inhabitants of the Malvinas Islands, who are not recognized as a people which can exercise this right under United Nations resolutions.”

Argentina has alleged that the special nature of the question of the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands derived from the fact that the United Kingdom had occupied the islands by force in 1833 and ousted the Argentine population and authorities there, replacing them with settlers of British origin.

After giving the 24-members Committee a brief overview of economic and political developments in the Islands, Mike Summers, a representative of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas), said “if this committee were to visit the Falkland Islands -as invited every year – you could see for yourselves the great substantial economic progress we have made and we are not a colony of the United Kingdom.”

He noted that the wish to maintain the current status was amply demonstrated in March 2013 by a referendum in which the Falkland Islands have resolved to remain an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. He said “the turnout for the referendum was 92 percent, and 99.8 percent voted in favour.”

Summers also said “as agreed and stated on the consistent paces through several governments that they would not discuss sovereignty of the islands, unless and until the islands do so wish it. Very clearly, at the present time, we do not so wish and that remains the position.”

The Falkland Islands (Malvinas) is one of 17 remaining Non-Self-Governing Territories.