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General Assembly Distr.: General 29 July 2016 United Nations A/AC.109/2016/SR.9 General Assembly Distr.: General 29 July 2016 Original: English Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples Summary record of the 9th meeting Held at Headquarters, New York, on Thursday, 23 June 2016, at 10 a.m. Chair: Mr. Ramírez Carreño ...................... (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) Contents Adoption of the agenda Requests for hearing Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) Hearing of petitioners This record is subject to correction. Corrections should be submitted in one of the working languages. They should be set forth in a memorandum and also incorporated in a copy of the record. They should be sent as soon as possible to the Chief of the Documents Control Unit ([email protected]). Corrected records will be reissued electronically on the Official Document System of the United Nations (http://documents.un.org/). 16-10760 (E) *1610760* A/AC.109/2016/SR.9 The meeting was called to order at 10.30 a.m. sustainable fisheries were considered to be among the best-managed in the world. The tourism industry Adoption of the agenda represented an estimated 7 per cent of GDP, having attracted wildlife expedition cruises and larger luxury 1. The agenda was adopted. cruises. Sheep farming for wool was the traditional mainstay of Island agriculture, and there had been Requests for hearing heavy investment in the latest reproductive 2. The Chair drew attention to the requests for technologies. In addition, a new hydrocarbon hearing relating to the question of the Falkland Islands exploration programme had, with the discovery of over (Malvinas), contained in aide-memoire 04/16. He took 500 million barrels of recoverable reserves, brought it that the Committee wished to grant those requests. substantial additional economic activity and created new skills. Moreover, the programme provided 3. It was so decided. economic opportunity not only for Falkland Islanders, but also for experienced logistics and supply Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) companies in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay, (A/AC.109/2016/6; A/AC.109/2016/L.7) none of which had yet taken up that opportunity. 4. The Chair read out an updated list of the 8. Each of the traditional economic activities of the delegations that had indicated their wish to participate Falkland Islands relied heavily on maintaining a in the Committee’s 2016 session as observers, namely, pristine environment and the continuance of good Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Costa Rica, El Salvador, environmental practices. The Falkland Islands Ghana, Guatemala, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Palau, government demanded the highest environmental Panama, Paraguay, Solomon Islands, South Africa, standards in all industries, in particular oil exploration. Spain, Sri Lanka, Uruguay, the Observer for the Holy It had invested recently in a new environmental See and the Observer for the Sovereign Military Order research institute, which had established working of Malta. arrangements with a number of distinguished universities and similar institutions around the world. Hearing of petitioners The Islands were being preserved for future 5. The Chair said that, in line with the Committee’s generations. usual practice, petitioners would be invited to take a 9. The Falkland Islands had moved rapidly over the place at the petitioners’ table and would withdraw after last 30 years to become an internally self-governing making their statements. overseas territory. The revised 2009 Constitution 6. Mr. Summers (Legislative Assembly of the guaranteed a full range of protections of fundamental Falkland Islands) said that the economy of the Falkland freedoms, including the right to self-determination, the Islands needed to be seen within the context of their clauses on which mirrored the provisions of the remote location, small population and limited land area Charter of the United Nations relating to Non-Self- but very extensive ocean regions under their control. Governing Territories. It explicitly recognized that the The economy was strong: the annual GDP averaged natural resources of the Falkland Islands belonged to around GBP 130 million, reserves were high and there the government and people of the Falkland Islands, not were no borrowings. The Falkland Islands had been the United Kingdom. economically self-sufficient since 1990, except for the 10. The Legislative Assembly made the laws for the cost of defence. They paid no taxes to the United Falkland Islands. The Executive, formed of three Kingdom and received no income, enabling them to elected members of the Assembly, was responsible for maintain a substantial degree of political independence determining strategies and policies and for the good from the British Government, while developing their governance of the Islands. The Government of the own public services and infrastructure and regulating United Kingdom remained responsible only for foreign the exploitation of their own natural resources. affairs and defence. The defence commitment provided 7. The Falklands economy was based on fishing, by the United Kingdom was principally a deterrent and tourism and agriculture. The fishing industry proportionate to the perceived level of threat. Members contributed some 60 per cent of GDP and the Islands’ of the Assembly engaged fully in the development of 2/11 16-10760 A/AC.109/2016/SR.9 foreign policy where it affected Falkland Islanders and 14. The Committee had specifically declined to in public diplomacy overseas. observe the referendum of 2013, in which the Falkland Islanders had exercised their right to self-determination 11. Falkland Islanders had demonstrated that they as a strong, independent and peaceful people. It had were comfortable with their existing constitutional been unable to witness the move of the Falkland relationship with the United Kingdom through a 2013 Islands away from colonialism because of its continued referendum, the turnout for which had been 92 per refusal to organize a visiting mission to the Islands, cent, with 99.8 per cent voting in favour of remaining despite having been invited every year for several an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. Neither years to do so. He formally urged the Committee to the United Kingdom nor the Falkland Islanders fulfil its sole responsibility to have proper regard for doubted British sovereignty over the Falklands; and the the people of the Non-Self-Governing Territories, United Kingdom had consistently stated that it would including Falkland Islanders. not discuss the sovereignty of the Islands unless and until the Islanders wished to do so. At the moment, 15. Mr. Short (Legislative Assembly of the Falkland they did not so wish. The United Kingdom had made it Islands) said that the makeup of the Falklands equally clear that it would not discuss other issues population had always been very cosmopolitan and about the Falkland Islands with third parties unless roughly 60 nationalities were currently represented on Falkland Islanders so wished and were present. the Islands. Many people had taken Falkland Islands citizenship, showing that they were not just passing 12. During the last 30 years, the Falkland Islands through. The ethnic mix caused no problems and no government had provided substantial new one was persecuted because of religion or colour. infrastructure, through selective and considered investment of its own income and reserves, without 16. The working practices of the Committee might be borrowing anything or relying on the financial in need of overhaul, if it was to devise the fresh and assistance of a third party. When first discovered, the creative approaches to decolonization urged upon it by Falkland Islands had had no native population and no the Secretary-General. The Special Committee had ethnic population had been absorbed, suppressed or been established for the purpose of monitoring the extinguished. Settlers had arrived and departed of their implementation of General Assembly resolution 1514 own free will, from many different parts of the world. (XV), and among what it saw as its mandated At recent censuses, Falkland Islanders had identified as functions, the Committee dispatched visiting missions, coming from 57 different ethnic backgrounds. The organized seminars on the political, social and facts simply did not support the claim that the Islanders economic situation in the Non-Self-Governing were an implanted British population; they were a Territories, mobilized public opinion in support of people in their own right. decolonization and held celebrations of solidarity with the peoples of the Territories. However, the Falkland 13. Argentina had made continued attempts to Islands had seen no visits, no forums and no solidarity destroy the economy and livelihood of the Falkland from the Committee. Islands and sought to harass and bully the Islanders through a series of ongoing economic sanctions. The 17. Under General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV), new Government of Argentina had made some Falkland Islanders had the right to freely determine encouraging remarks about its approach to the Falkland their political status and freely pursue their social, Islands, but nothing had changed. The Falkland Islands economic and cultural development. However, as they hoped that Argentina would soon feel able to dismantle sought to pursue their economic development, its barriers to trade, cooperation and good- Argentina had
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