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#NewWorldReport: The Falklands unsolved. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

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🗓️ 9 March 2023

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#NewWorldReport: The Falklands unsolved. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis
https://www.reuters.com/world/argentina-asks-uk-resume-negotiations-over-falklands-2023-03-02/

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This is the New World Report. I'm John Bachel with my colleague, Professor Abin Ellis of the U.S. Army Work College Strategic Studies Institute, the Falkland Islands.

0:43.0

Off the coast of South America, a stopoff for whalers or passage around the Cape.

0:50.0

Also, the scene of battles in the 20th century, the first war, the Falkland Islands battled the Second War.

0:57.0

But now, in the news, Buenos Aires, Reuters, the Argentine government has asked again the United Kingdom to restart negotiations over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands.

1:07.0

The request to resume talks is the latest chapter in Argentinus Longheld claim over the islands.

1:13.0

No kidding, Professor. I tell quickly that I turned a novel in in 1982 to my publisher, The Dow Press, that included a battle between Argentine settlers and British settlers on the Falkland Islands.

1:29.0

I was a fiction writer. I had no reason to believe that it was actually going to happen. I looked it up.

1:35.0

It was a theme on my book, refugees who couldn't find a place to land in the world turned away from every port and every entrance to the mad and the Caribbean.

1:45.0

So eventually, they wound up in Antarctica for the people who had been outcast. That was a theme in 1981 across the world, people who were dishomed.

1:56.0

However, today, this is 40 years since that war. The Argentina remains constantly to say that we have a claim here and looking at the history of the Falkland Islands.

2:09.0

There are claims that come and go over the centuries, a French claim, a Spanish claim, a British claim, even an American port of call.

2:19.0

And so the Falklands remain, I would say, exceedingly controversial to both countries. Right now, the government says we're British citizens.

2:30.0

Although we don't have our foreign policy, that's London. Argentina says, let's talk about it.

2:36.0

At your time in the State Department, is this a sore point between Britain and the United States or has the US sided with Britain on this claim?

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