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HARDtalk: Jan Cheek - Executive Councillor, Falkland Islands Government

12/12/2012

Jan Cheek - Executive Councillor, Falkland Islands Government

BBC News Channel - HARDtalk, Jan Cheek - Executive Councillor, Falkland Islands Government

Shaun Ley talks to Jan Cheek, executive councillor of the Falkland Islands Government.

Shaun Ley talks to Jan Cheek, executive councillor of the Falkland Islands Government. How much longer will the British be prepared to pay the military and diplomatic bill?

To Britain it's the Falklands, to Argentina the Malvinas. Thirty years ago, the two countries went to war over these islands in the South Atlantic. Now they can smell oil - eight billion barrels worth is being drilled for this year. Is that why Buenos Aires and London are trading insults once again? Jan Cheek is one of the leaders of the 3000 islanders who are about to be asked to vote on whether there should be negotiations with Argentina. She says no but by what right do the Islanders insist they should stay linked to a country on the other side of the world? And for how much longer will the British be prepared to pay the military and diplomatic bill?

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