As Falklanders prepare to get rid of their British conialists, ALL Guyanese should also brace themselves for a snap election bcoz they also need to get rid of PPP imperialism and dictatorship

It is good of the OAS and UNASUR to be concerned that the sovereignty of the Falklands be settled, but it already is. Until the Falklands' population reaches a size that could maintain a state (50 000?), the sovereignty can only be transferred from the UK to another state with the agreement of that state and the Falkland Islanders.
Argentina would volunteer to be that other state, but their rough wooing wont get the islanders agreement. It might be thought that the UK should enter into discussions with Argentina ref sovereignty, but Argentinian law requires that the outcome of any such negotiations must be the assumption of sovereignty by Argentina. So what's the point?
The basis of this Argentinian conviction might well be the pope's allocation to Spain, sometime ago, of all land found on the longitude of the Falklands. Venezuela seems to have cured itself of similar fixations.

LB asks about the Chagos Islanders. A sad tale, one of many scattered about the old British Empire, which included a quarter of all land and practically all the sea. But this one seems to be getting the attention of earnest documentary makers and prosperous lawyers because the beneficiary was that recent new kid on the block, the US of A. However, what's pertinent to this correspondence was that fifty years ago, a population similar in number to that of the Falklands was removed and taken across the Indian Ocean to Mauritius. But the double standards are understandable
Back to 1815. During the Napoleonic Wars,the many French islands had channeled arms and advisers to hostile Indian states, and privateers had disrupted trade. Mauritius and the Seychelles, and a speckle of islands, passed to the UK. In Mauritius, sugar had replaced the Dodo, but the African slaves preferred fishing.
The Chagos Islands were one of the uninhabited specs, off the southern end of the Maldives. Plantations were established, but eventually failed, as did other activities. However, while the distances were mind numbing, the winds are reliable and slavers and pirates had been swept from the sea. Eventually, fisherfolk from Mauritius reached the effectively deserted Chagos. People passed to and fro, families were established, subsistence agriculture practised. While the Chagos were now nominally administered from Mauritius, not the Seychelles, taxes,teachers, doctors were absent. The squatters had no rights to land or water, but this didn't matter as nobody minded. Until the USA decided it needed an Indian Ocean base.It can be imagined that the Whiz kid officials in London and Washington had well advanced plans before the squatters were noticed, but new airfields,dams, and urban redevelopments routinely caused more disruption. And what compensation could be offered to squatters without getting the auditors on your head?
The Chagos islanders might have been expected to return to the Mauritian fishing community they were familiar with.But they hadn't left because life was easy, and Indians, brought in as indentured labourers to work the sugar cane, now owned the land and businesses. Fishing, poisoned by agricultural run-off and effluent from coastal development, had collapsed.The workless African fishermen now had to accommodate the Chagos Islanders. The British government finally recognised the small scale mess up it had been party to, but money directed to the islanders was intercepted by the Mauritian government to pay for all its expenses. A second lump got through.

So what will be the eventual outcome?Mauritius will 'recover' the Chagos in 21 years, and be absorbed by India in 22years.
The fishing community will relocate to Reunion.
The Chagos islanders will be long settled in the UK. But a couple will have returned to fishing-in Falkland waters.