Each year a well-rehearsed performance takes place at the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonisation. Argentina's government protests that Britain's sovereignty over the islands it calls the Malvinas is a colonial injustice, and that the principle of territorial integrity demands that they be reunited with the mainland. Representatives from the Falkland Islands counter that they have a right to self-determination; that they have no wish to be part of Argentina; and that they do not consider themselves to be a colony of Britain anyway.
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