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James Peck (1968) is an artist and writer born in the Falkland Islands who holds both Argentine and British citizenship. Peck was born in the island's capital, Stanley, and belongs to a family with four generations living in the islands. His family is of English, Scottish and Irish descent. James is the youngest of three brothers. His father, Terry Peck, was chief of police in the islands and fought on the British side in the Falklands War in the Battle of Mount Longdon. James' artistic work features the Falklands War reflecting the suffering of individual soldiers particularly the Argentine conscripts. Whilst exhibiting in Buenos Aires he met and befriended Miguel Savage, an Argentine Veteran of the Falklands War. Savage also fought in the Battle of Mount Longdon and travelled to the islands meeting and staying with Terry Peck before his death from cancer in 2006. Whilst living in Buenos Aires, Peck met and married the Argentine artist María Abriani. After moving back to the Falklands they had two children. In 2002, there was controversy in the Falkland Islands when officials denied free medical treatment for María whilst pregnant with their first child Jack who was subsequently born in Argentina.〔() Jack Peck born in Buenos Aires, Mercopress, 29 May 2002.〕 In 2007, Peck unsuccessfully sought election to the Falkland Islands Government advocating a tougher stance in negotiations with Argentina at a time when the Falkland Islands Government had proposed direct talks with Argentina.〔() Islander and former Bs. Aires resident in Falkland's election, Lisa Johnston, Mercopress, 7 December 2007〕〔() Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News update, reproduced in Mercopress, 4 January 2008〕 In 2011, it was widely claimed that he was the first person born in the Falklands to obtain an Argentine birth certificate (this ignores for example Alejandro Betts in 1982, and many others). These reports claim that Argentine law and its sovereignty claim over the archipelago confer citizenship for all those born in the islands, although Argentina also describes islanders variously as "illegal", "squatters", an "illegally implanted population".〔Argentine Ambassador to the UN, Jorge Arguello, Speech to the GA, 25 August 2010.〕〔() Press Release, Special Committee on Decolonization, 9th Meeting (AM), SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION RECOMMENDS GENERAL ASSEMBLY REITERATE CALL FOR RESUMPTION OF NEGOTIATIONS OVER FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS), GA/COL/3212, 24 June 2010〕〔() The Question of Malvinas and the Bicentennial of Argentina, (compiled by: Agustín M. Romero). Buenos Aires: “Malvinas Parliamentary Observatory Committee”, Honorable House of Deputies of the Nation. 152 p. ; 30 cm. ISBN 978-950-691-076-1〕 In a ceremony led by President Kirchner on 14 June, designed to coincide with Liberation Day in the Falkland Islands, he was handed his "''Documento Nacional de Identidad''" (National Identity Document) and an Argentine passport. Peck has since stated his main reason for applying for citizenship stemmed from difficulties with Argentine bureaucracy in seeing his two children〔() Falklands born James Peck has no plans to give up his British passport, Mercopress, 21 June 2011 "Further on he said that obtaining Argentine papers was basically because of practical reasons. A year and a half ago he split with his wife but wants to live close to his children in Buenos Aires, but moving around only with a British passport exposed him to “hostility and bureaucratic difficulties”"〕 from his marriage to an Argentine woman and that he did not abandon his British nationality. There was a hostile reaction in the Falklands to the news reports. == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Peck (artist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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