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Publish past negotiations with junta, says Plaid Cymru

Socialist Challenge No. 243, 28 April 1982 · p. 4 of the scan · 359 words

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I DO NOT recal! British task force being sent to defend the Sandinista revolution, Plaid Cymru MP Dafydd Thomas told Socialist Challenge last weekene Tory claim to oppose the junis wholly spurious: the "enemy was armed by them and was indeed exercising in Car. digan Bay as Male es March.

Plaid Cymru has called on the government to publish previous negotiations with the junta so that LIC people can judge where responsibility les tor the present dispute a demand supported by Leith MP Ron Brown it an printed on page 2 of this Dafyda Thomas felt that Plaid would 'tend should be ceded, alreougly that sovereignty Argentinian people. He himself sup ported a resolution, by two votes by Plaid's NEC calling for the immediate transfer of sovereignty.

"Negotiation: on Falklands should include some form of devolution, he said. 'But if the transfer of sovereignty had been carried out in 1965 the present situation would have arisen. The Labour government was discussing this course but bowed to Tory pressure.

'Plaid Cymru condemns the military invathe Falkland Islands by a fascist regime In Argentina and the use of gunboat diplomacy by the UK government. We call for the immediate withdrawal of the Argentine troops and the recal of the British task force in order to avoid a totally un accosal y wal further call fo discussion be started without delay the chairmanship of the UN to est lise future tou tune the future Falklanders which the costilla geographic and economic inks with Argentina while safeguarding the human and civil rights of the islanders, 'Plaid Cymru reaffirms its contempt for the human rights record of the Argentine junta but also condemns the willingness of the British government to supply arms to that Successive British governments have failed to act in accordance with the UN resolution of 1965 to the constitutional problem of the Falklands.

'In this context we call for the publication of all documents relating to the negotiations between the and governments over the issue so as to clarify the responsibility for the

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