Argentina and sovereignty of the Falklands.?

Question

Why does Argentina insist that the Falkland islands belongs to them. The facts.
1690- first recorded landings by Capt.John Davis who names 'Falkland Sound' after the treasurer of the British navy.
1764-Louis Antoine de Bougainville ( Frenchman ) establishes first settlement at Port Louis on East Falkland.
1765-Capt. John Byron plants vegetable garden on Saunders Island off West Falkland.
1776-The French claim is sold to Spain, almost 90 years after the first British landings.
1770-Five Spanish ships force British settlers who were building Port Egmont to leave.
1771-After negotiations to avoid war, Port Egmont is restored to the British.
1774-The British pull out of Port Egmont but leave a lead plaque as a token of ownership of the 'Falkland Islands'.
1816-A group of disaffected collonies in South America splits from Spain's authority, claims control of all Spanish property in the region including the Falklands. This group will become the Republic of Argentina.

Because 'Music is The Word' they are British and as such should be protected by Britain no matter how far away they live.

I agree with you Dinodude but chill.

Answer 1

because the Falkland islanders what to stay British and there is oil and gas for Dinodude if you had seen war you would not be spouting out that you would take it back i was there with 45 commando in 1982 and will never forget the sights i saw there do you no the biggest pacifist is some one who has seen war no one wants to see it twice

Answer 2

I'm Argentine, and I think that most people still claim the Falklands because of national pride. However, the real interest in the Falklands, the thing that the government noticed, is the petroleum. Since Russia came with the idea of claiming the bottom of the sea in the north pole, every country is now thinking in conquering land under the sea (specially in polar regions).

Answer 3

first of all i don't care if the British ownED the Falklands in 17what ever the fact remains that the British, Spanish,french,German and other European countries ownED a lot of modern countries. they should give them up and they have mostly. but they cling on to some of them in some misguided attempt to remember "the good old days" when Britain WAS important. i think that the British have mis placed sense of importance. for example if the Argentinians are dirty cheating lying people because the what to get their land from the British what are all the other countries in the world like America who got their Independence from Britain? are they thieves because originally the land belonged to Britain?if you go back enough in history you will see that a lot of countries were owned by other countries but that does not make them their property now. e.g Britain was conquered by the Romans does that mean that Britain is owned by Italy. i think you people should get a grip and stop mouthing off about things that u have not thought through.

PS. don't slang me off just because it told you i few home truths.

Answer 4

well.. there are some geographical reason showing why Argentina claims Falklands (Malvinas). Uk keep on with a sort of funny Imperial politics, keeping territories alsot unhabitated that, geographically, are into the sphere of influence of other countries. Malvinas , for example, but also Gibraltar. In theory it could be done, and seems correct with formal international laws, but creates a huge quantity of troubles (Especially when it influence oil production rights) those solution could be bloody and very very veryexpensive. I suggest you to make the question of Falklands/Malvinas in Yahoo Argentina. You could have some different answers..
Good Luck

Answer 5

the answer is more political the geograpical.

the argentinian right wing junta that came to power were extremely unpopulal at the time and were in fear of a rising by the people in order to unite the country behind them and show there strength to its own people in particular they chose the falklands to invade

the u.k. under maggie thatcher had begun scaling down its military and military spending hit an all time time low at this period due to economic recession so argentina invaded the malvinas/falklands to unite the country behind the government as would normally be the case in times of war thinking that britain would not really confront it due to its military scale down this back fired and the argies lost

Answer 6

The people of the Falklands are as much our people as any town in Britain its a pity we can not abandon some of the idiots answering this question . as for a referendum its already been asked they voted to stay British 100% .

Answer 7

This is remnant of imperialism and is out of date in the 21st century.
They should be offered a referendum to decide whether they want independence or to be allowed to emigrate to Britain for those who cannot live without British nationality.
It would save the taxpayer millions of pounds.

Answer 8

As usual it stems down to national pride. And now the resources of the South Atlantic are open for exploitation (oil, minerals, fishing) expect greater problems

Answer 9

Because they are a bunch of devious lying gits. Its ours, we won and we will go back and kick their arses again if necessary.

ps. If you haven't been in the military and had to put up, you don't have the right to criticise my answer, so wind your necks in.

Answer 10

Who f*ckin cares, really? Its **** like macho soveriegnity and the likes that starts wars, who cares about some rag order Island thousands of miles away, I dont.

Wars over land? WTF, No wonder the world is crazy.!

Its pathetic all this macho nonsence.