Editing Self-determination (section)

=== Falkland Islands ===
{{Main|Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute}} 
Self-determination is referred to in the [[Falkland Islands Constitution]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2846/contents/made |title=The Falkland Islands Constitution Order 2008 |publisher=Legislation.gov.uk |date=2011-07-04 |access-date=2012-03-04}}</ref> and is a factor in the [[Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute]]. The population has existed for over nine generations, continuously for over 190 years.<ref name="Bulmer-Thomas1989">{{cite book |author=Victor Bulmer-Thomas|title=Britain and Latin America: A Changing Relationship|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kfk0AWSaHjoC&pg=PA3 |access-date=11 September 2012|date=17 August 1989|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-37205-3 |page=3}}</ref>  In the [[2013 Falkland Islands sovereignty referendum|2013 referendum]], organised by the [[Falkland Islands Government]], 99.8% voted to remain British.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://en.mercopress.com/2013/03/12/overwhelming-turnout-and-yes-vote-in-the-falklands-referendum |title=Overwhelming turnout and YES vote in the Falklands referendum |newspaper=Mercopress |publisher=En.mercopress.com |access-date=2015-01-30}}</ref> As administering power, the [[Government of the United Kingdom|British Government]] deemed that transfer of sovereignty to [[Argentina]] would be counter to the Falkland Islander right to self-determination, since the majority of Falkland Island inhabitants wished to remain British.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.mercopress.com/2011/06/15/self-determination-and-self-sufficiency-falklands-message-to-the-world-on-liberation-day |title="Self determination and self sufficiency", Falklands message to the world on Liberation Day |publisher=En.mercopress.com |access-date=2012-03-04}}</ref>

[[File:Arte por la Paz en el Museo Malvinas (16395806573).jpg|thumb|''Malvinas and South Atlantic Islands Museum'' in Buenos Aires, 2015]]
Argentina states the principle of self-determination is not applicable to the islands since the current inhabitants are not aboriginal and were brought to replace the Argentine population, which was expelled by an 'act of force', compelling the Argentinian inhabitants to directly leave the islands.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2001/gacol3047.doc.htm|title=FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS), GIBRALTAR, AMERICAN SAMOA DISCUSSED IN CARIBBEAN REGIONAL SEMINAR ON DECOLONIZATION |publisher=[[United Nations]]}}</ref> This refers to the [[Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (1833)|re-establishment of British rule]] in the year 1833<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cancilleria.gov.ar/portal/seree/malvinas/homeing.html |title=DIMAS |access-date=2008-10-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531174231/http://www.cancilleria.gov.ar/portal/seree/malvinas/homeing.html |archive-date=2011-05-31 }} Argentina's Position on Different Aspects of the Question of the Malvinas Islands</ref> during which Argentina claims the existing population living in the islands was expelled.  Argentina thus argues that, in the case of the Falkland Islands, the principle of territorial integrity [[#Self-determination versus territorial integrity|should have precedence]] over self-determination.<ref name="López1995">{{cite book |author=Angel M. Oliveri López |title=Key to an Enigma: British Sources Disprove British Claims to the Falkland/Malvinas Islands |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-u1ygYbRBHgC&pg=PA38|year=1995|publisher=Lynne Rienner Publishers|isbn=978-1-55587-521-3 |page=38}}</ref> Historical records dispute Argentina's claims and whilst acknowledging the garrison was expelled note the existing civilian population remained at [[Port Louis, Falkland Islands|Port Louis]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Lowell S. Gustafson|title=The Sovereignty Dispute Over the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ip-9_W7efbAC |access-date=18 September 2012|date=7 April 1988 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-504184-2|page=26|quote=''Sarandi'' sailed on 5 January, with all the soldiers and convicts of the penal colony and those remaining Argentine settlers who wished to leave.  The other settlers of various nationalities, remained at Port Louis....Nevertheless, this incident is not the forcible ejection of Argentine settlers that has become myth in Argentina.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Julius Goebel |title=The struggle for the Falkland Islands: a study in legal and diplomatic history |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FM8ZAAAAYAAJ |access-date=18 September 2012|orig-year=1927|year=2008|publisher=Yale University Press |page=456|isbn=9780300029437|quote=On April 24, 1833 he addressed Lord Palmerston, inquiring whether orders had been actually given by the British government to expel the Buenos Aires garrison.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Mary Cawkell|title=The Falkland story, 1592–1982 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wg8aAAAAYAAJ|access-date=18 September 2012|year=1983|publisher=A. Nelson|isbn=978-0-904614-08-4 |page=30|quote=Argentina likes to stress that Argentine settlers were ousted and replaced.  This is incorrect.  Those settlers who wished to leave were allowed to go.  The rest continued at the now renamed Port Louis.}}</ref><ref>J. Metford; Falklands or Malvinas? The background to the dispute. International Affairs, Vol 44 (1968), pp. 463–481. "Much is made in successive presentations of the Argentine case of the next episode in the history of the islands: the supposed fact that Great Britain 'brutally' and 'forcefully' expelled the Argentine garrison in 1833. The record is not nearly so dramatic. After the commander of the Lexington had declared, in December 1831, the Falklands 'free of all government', they remained without any visible authority. However, in September 1832, the Buenos Aires Government appointed an interim commandant to take charge of a penal settlement at San Carlos, the Government's reserve on East Falkland. The British representative immediately lodged a protest..."</ref> and there was no attempt to settle the islands until 1841.<ref name="Harper1998">{{cite book |author=Marjory Harper |title=Emigration from Scotland Between the Wars: Opportunity Or Exile?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L4x2UdzPB4cC&pg=PA91 |year=1998 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=978-0-7190-4927-9|page=91}}</ref>