Falklands 'belong to Uruguay not Argentina'
The Falkland Islands should belong to Uruguay, the authors of a new book on the disputed islands have sensationally claimed.
A forgotten 172-year-old treaty signed between Spain and the South American country gives it sovereignty rights over the British colony, they say.
Uruguayan architect Juan Ackermann, one of the two authors of the book, insisted: "Legally, the islands are ours."
Co-author Alfredo Villegas, an Argentine engineer, added: "For me, as an Argentine, it was very difficult to come to terms with this."
The book, whose title translates into English as 'The Falkland Islands – Are They Uruguayan?' argues colonial Spain controlled the region's seas, islands and coastline from naval bases in Cuba, Peru and the Uruguayan capital Montevideo.
Mr Ackermann said: "No one remembers a 1841 treaty signed between Spain and Uruguay.
"In that document, Spain cedes it the naval base's powers.
"Seventeen years later, Spain did the same with Argentina, but it couldn't give it something it's already given another. That is a very strong argument in favour of Uruguay."
A 1972 international agreement on the Antartic confirmed Uruguay as the rightful owner of the Falklands because it was based on the 1841 treaty, Mr Villegas added.
He told an interviewer: "It was signed first in the Uruguayan senate and then in the Argentine senate.
"The basis of that signature is the 1841 treaty.
"When the Argentine legislators signed, they were recognising that agreement.
"It's obvious they didn't read what they signed."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldn ... ntina.htmlFor myself I go back to birthright of families who have lived there for generations over hundreds of years under the only country to ever bother giving proper governance.
Their birthright is paramount.
If you use Art's idiotic argument you may as well tell all the Americans, Canadians, Central Americans, South Americans, Australians, Kiwis and white South Africans to "fuck off back to their own countries" and deny them their birthright too.
That is how daft his argument is.