UK says Argentina's position over Malvinas is 'unsustainable'

[Catherina]

7. Those other thieves, the Spaniards returned it to Argentina when they left

The UK is basically claiming the same squatters rights that they don't recognize in their own country, the rights of squatters who forcefully evicted Argentinian authorities in 1833.

In the Nootka Sound treaty, signed by UK and Spain almost ten years before UK illegally occupied the islands, it stated that UK would respect Argentina's territories and independence and that none of the old colonial powers in the area (France, Spain, UK) would establish new settlements. Some British illegally did so and want to keep the purloined goods.

Kirchner's not cracked. Her case is solid from the Latin American point of view. Nootka was in full effect, when Argentina gained its independence in 1816.

Article VI of the Nootka treaty "It is further agreed with respect to the eastern and western coasts of South America and the islands adjacent, that the respective subjects shall not form in the future any establishment on the parts of the coast situated to the south of the parts of the same coast and of the islands adjacent already occupied by Spain; it being understood that the said respective subjects shall retain the liberty of landing on the coasts and islands so situated for objects connected with their fishery and of erecting thereon huts and other temporary structures serving only those objects."

As my indigenous friens would say: White men's treaties. White men's laws. White men's forked tongue.