Falklands : Argentina Grumbles at Falklands' Constitution
Submitted by Falkland Islands News Network (Juanita Brock) 07.11.2008 (Article Archived on 21.11.2008)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Buenos Aires has protested to the United Kingdom about the new Falklands Constitution.
ARGENTINA GRUMBLES AT FALKLANDS CONSTITUTION
By J. Brock (FINN)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Buenos Aires has protested to the United Kingdom about the new Falklands Constitution.
On Wednesday, Britain and Falkland Islands approved a new constitution for the government of the Falklands, which provides for internal self government with the United Kingdom through the Governor taking charge of defence and foreign policy.
Falkland Islands' government said the relationship between locally elected officials and the governor was made more transparent through the new constitution, which succeeds one signed back in 1985 and amended in 1987.
In Buenos Aires on Thursday, Foreign Minister, Tiana said the action was a 'violation of Argentine sovereignty and international law' and continued, "This British unilateral act mainly constitutes a new and open violation of the 31/49 Resolution taken in 1976 by the UN General Assembly, which urges both parties in dispute to abstain from taking decisions to introduce unilateral decisions," said the foreign minister. “The sole objective being pursued by the United Kingdom in approving what it calls reforms,” he said, “is to perpetuate an anachronistic colonial situation,''
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