The Malvinas Islands, at the sight of the United Nations Decolonization Committee | Chronic

Britain has sovereignty over 14 Overseas Territories, of which 10 – including the Malvinas> are on the list of the United Nations Special Committee to promote the decolonization of this type of surface.

These are territories that belong to the British Crown but are not part of the United Kingdom and have not become independent and have not even voted in favor of maintaining the link with Great Britain.

In three of these 14 cases, Britain has sovereignty disputes with Argentina: the Malvinas Islands, the South Georgia Islands and the South Sandwich Islands, as well as part of the territory. Antarctic.

The Malvinas Islands and the Georgias and South Sandwich Islands were usurped by force in 1833 and have remained since then, with the exception of the 1982 interregnum.

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In the case of Antarctica, Britain claims since 1962 continental and island territories that totally coincide with the area claimed by Argentina and partially with the one that Chile supports.

Of the three cases, only the case of the Malvinas comes under the Committee on Decolonization, a body created in 1961 by the United Nations General Assembly to help regularize the settlements. Of the nine other British Overseas Territories targeted by the Decolonization Committee, the only one in which the Crown can claim sovereignty is Gibraltar, the small peninsula of southern Spain, which claims it as the his.

The other eight – all archipelagos – are: Anguilla, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, British Virgin Islands and Montserrat, in the Caribbean; Pitcairn Islands, Oceania, and Santa Elena, Ascension and Tristan de Acuña, Africa.

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Apart from the list of the Decolonization Committee and apart from South Georgia, the South Sandwich Islands and the Antarctic Territory, Britain retains possession of two areas in Cyprus, claimed by that country and the United States. a group of archipelagos located in the Indian Ocean. , claimed by Mauritius and Seychelles.

In the first case, it is Acrotiri and Dhekelia, in the west and east of Cyprus, former British colony, where the United Kingdom has established military bases since 1960. The other is the so-called British territory of the Indian Ocean, about 70 islands grouped in the archipelagos Aldabra, Chagos and Farquhar.

Almost all overseas territories are administered by their own governments and have no representative in the UK parliament, while the UK is responsible for their protection and foreign relations.

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