A Story of Two Isles - the Falklands - part 11 - UN Resolutions, more incidents and a war brewing

We´re at part 11, already? Here are the previous parts so you don´t miss a thing:

Part 1: https://steemit.com/history/@wolfenlord/a-story-of-two-isles
Part 2: https://steemit.com/history/@wolfenlord/a-story-of-two-isles-part-2
Part 3: https://steemit.com/history/@wolfenlord/a-story-of-two-isles-the-falklands-part-3
Part 4: https://steemit.com/history/@wolfenlord/a-story-of-two-isles-the-falklands-part-4-the-rebellion
Part 5: https://steemit.com/history/@wolfenlord/a-story-of-two-isles-the-falklands-part-5-british-expansionism-before-the-war
Part 6: https://steemit.com/history/@wolfenlord/a-story-of-two-isles-the-falklands-part-6-battle-of-the-falklands-world-war-1
Part 7: https://steemit.com/history/@wolfenlord/a-story-of-two-isles-the-falklands-part-7-world-war-2
Part 8: https://steemit.com/history/@wolfenlord/a-story-of-two-isles-the-falklands-part-8-united-nations-first-claims
Part 9: https://steemit.com/history/@wolfenlord/a-story-of-two-isles-the-falklands-part-9-a-rogue-flight
Part 10: https://steemit.com/history/@wolfenlord/a-story-of-two-isles-the-falklands-part-10-a-hijacked-airliner

Around 1960, the general stance of the international community was to be against colonialism because it constituted a human rights violation, it hindered the economic, social and cultural progress of the colonies themselves, and it was a threat to national security. An international de-colonizing effort had started and the UN resolution 1514 was passed. This document opened the door to forced bilateral negotiations over the Falklands, so an eager Argentina and a reluctant United Kingdom(practically at metaphorical gunpoint) crossed that door. After some time a brief report with the conclusions of the debate was issued, which mostly thwarted Britains wishes:

• The existence of a dispute over the Falklands was accepted.
• The resolution 1514 was applicable to the territory(and not the population) of the Falklands.
• A recommendation was made to the commitee that the negotiations should take into account the interests and not the wishes of the kelpers(islanders).

The matter went forward to the next instance(the Special Commitee of 24). Before it got there however, United States exercised significant pressure so that the negotiations would be held outside of the orbit of the UN.
Despite the pressure, resolution 2065 was passed, meaning that the Falklands could not be de-colonized following the autodetermination principle. In short, the Falklands could not become an independent country because the current population would not even be there if it wasn´t for the British and didn´t have the infrastructure to be self sufficient.
The 60´s were not kind to the British in general, their empire was in decline, so they were having trouble funding many of their colonies, and the UN pressure was making it harder not to negotiate. In the midst of 1966, right after the millitary coup of General Onganía, the person in charge of international bussiness at the argentinian embassy at London(the actual ambassador resigned right after the coup), Miguel Angel Zavala Ortiz and his companions were informally briefed during lunch that the Falklands would be returned to Argentinian sovereignty and the only thing remaining was to find the right time and conditions to effect the transfer.
However, the following years, they gradually backed down from that argumenting that the kelpers didn´t want to actually become Argentinians, they felt just as British as the ones residing in the United Kingdom. Seriously that doesn´t make a lot of sense, lets put this in perspective: if a lot of friends and me were to take a piece of land in the UK, backed by our government and for the sake of the example let´s assume that we´re able to fight off the british national defense forces for a long time, after a lot of years would it be a valid argument NOT to return the land to say that we feel more argentinian than british, so we should stay there in allegiance to Argentina?
This was the time and frame of mind during which the "Operation Condor" happened (remember? We talked about it in the last part)
They british were already facing massive internal parlamentary pressure, lobbied by british companies inside the falklands, that demanded that they stopped the transfer permanently in its tracks and declared the kelpers as british.)
They didn´t cave in right away, but they stalled, and stalled, and then stalled some more. Stunts like "Operation Condor", which were in part product of the anxiety that the argentinian population had over the issue, enabled bold argentinian protesters and extremist factions to use these kind of means to further their exposition. But they also gave an excuse to the british to stall even more.
Do you remember Mighel Fitzgerald? He did a SECOND clandestine flight to the Falklands on November 27th, 1968. This time he was piloting a Grand Commander twin engined plane, which was owned by the Crónica newspaper. Alongside him, travelled the newspaper´s director, Héctor Ricardo García, and one of its journalists, Juan Carlos Navas. This time the insland´s horse-track runway was deliberately obstructed so they had to land on a road, which broke one of the propeller´s blades. They were arrested only minutes later by british officers, and they were held for 48 hours and then made to board the HMS Endurante who took them to Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz.
The new British posture pushed for a shared sovereignty of the Falklands, which would have spanish and english as official languages and their own document. Argentina was cooperating alongside those lines but two events happened that finally stopped the negotiations dead in their tracks: the death of the president(during 1974), Juan Domingo Perón, which was conducting the negotiations, and the discovery of Oil around the Falkland seabed by the british.
In the following years, as the British started preparing for the oil exploitation around the isles, Argentina started increasing its aggressiveness. After all, they were about to steal our oil. This was not just about the islands anymore.
The Shackleton Incident, on February 4th of 1976, happened because a British prospector ship, the RSS Shackleton, was prospecting for oil just inside the borders of Argentina. When confronted by the Argentinian Destroyer ARA Almirante Storni, as per the orders of the Falklands governor himself, the captain of the Shackleton was initially dismissive citing that they didn´t recognize Argentinian authority over the seas. Several shots over the bow were made, and they finally got the message, returning to within Port Stanley´s borders. The Almirante Storni´s commander Ramón A. Arosa was commended for his cool head and for not escalating the incident into a full war(which would have happened had he actually sank the Shackleton).

However, a full scale war WAS cooking, and in the next few episodes, we will cover it in full. Stay tuned!