MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Tuesday, May 26th 2026 - 23:20 UTC
Goss, a sixth-generation Islander whose ancestor arrived at Port Louis from Stoke-on-Trent in 1841, intervened without political or diplomatic career credentials
The Member of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly Michael Goss on Tuesday presented the archipelago's position before the Regional Seminar of the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonisation, known as the Committee of 24, held in Managua, Nicaragua. In his address, Goss defended the right to self-determination of the inhabitants of the archipelago, reiterated the Legislative Assembly's invitation for the body to send a visiting mission to the Islands, and questioned Argentina's failure to comply with the bilateral cooperation package agreed with the United Kingdom in September 2024.
“We have nothing to hide and everything to show,” said the legislator, who represents Camp, the rural constituency that covers the countryside and outlying settlements of the archipelago. Goss, a sixth-generation Islander whose ancestor arrived at Port Louis from Stoke-on-Trent in 1841, intervened without political or diplomatic career credentials. “I am not a diplomat or career politician. I am here because I am a Falkland Islander, and decisions about our future should be informed by the voice of someone who actually lives it,” he said. The Regional Seminar, held annually in advance of the committee's main session in New York, brings together representatives of UN member states, administering powers, and non-self-governing territories.
