Liberation Scotland Press Release
With regards to the United Nations meeting in Geneva on the 18th September, 2025
At the UN’s Palais de Nations in Geneva, Liberation Scotland delivered a historic first event on UN premises (in a meeting room decorated with marquetry gifted by Morocco) with a panel of expert international speakers (legal, constitutional affairs, colonial legacy, human rights, territorial alienation, media) examining Scotland’s constitutional position, under the event title ‘Scotland’s Right to Self-Determination under International Law’.
Key speakers included Prof. Robert Black, Prof. Alf Baird, Prof. Mark McNaught, Sara Salyers and Craig Murray.
The event attracted a high attendance of UN delegates from many nations and territories (primarily from the African Union and global south) who immediately recognised the historical and current conditions evident in 21st Century Scotland, as the colonial markers associated with long-established dependencies or colonies (incl. subjugation, displacement, exploitation) and who were eager to engage on this and draw comparisons with their own lived experiences.
The question raised several times by attendees who stressed their recognition of our common circumstances and their own ongoing struggles to decolonise, was how to leverage our commonalities and work together to end colonisation for good.
Prof. Black’s legal revelation that Scotland was not in fact in the claimed ‘voluntary partnership’ long portrayed by the British Government, but rather had been subject to territorial annexation in 1707 by a continuing English state (renaming itself the UK) raised eyebrows amongst the event’s international participants, who acknowledged the questions that this raises about the representation of the UK by the British Government on the world stage as a voluntary partnership of nations.
Thursday’s event in Geneva was only the start of a wider conversation with the international community (who will ultimately decide Scotland’s future) about the true status of Scotland as non-self governing territory (NGST) as defined by the UN, and hidden from view by the British state for so long.
This is essential given the domestic political deadlock at home, and Liberation Scotland is determined to continue to mobilise this international debate and progress our Petition to the UN Special Committee on decolonisation (C24) during the coming weeks.
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Pleased to see Scotland represented at a UN event. It has long been coming. Scotland was invaded and annexed centuries before many African countries were colonised by the ‘British’, defacto English who were not historically themselves either, vis-à-vis the Britons, the original Celtic tribes and inhabitants of what we now would identify as England, and were invaded a millennia earlier by the many including Romans, Vikings, Angles, Saxons, Danes and Normans to name a few – ‘Veni, vidi, vici’ (47BCE). A very muddled history that cuts the corners short even on what it means to be English (indigenously or even culturally speaking, casting a cutting stealthy shadow on an often mistaken and misrepresented national identity).
Then there is what the King’s of England after Norman conquest did to the Welsh Princes and Kingdom of Wales, and later Cromwell in Ireland. And of course the ‘British’ (that assumed name) did in Africa, North America, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Australia, China and Hong Kong. Be very wary of what you think is your legitimate past or heritage in the world today.
Scotland’s cause is everyone’s cause, so I am calling it for everyone, and that long oppressed voice of Wales too.
So why indeed did the poet, Khalil Gibran, when asked more than a century ago was he Lebanese or American, did he not reply, “Earth is my homeland, and humanity is my family” – الارض وطني والانسانية اسرتي – خليل جبران.
“If Lebanon was not my country, I would have chosen it to be”. Sentiment of a longing for his homeland, while also embodying that wider vision of shared humanity, a borderless world.
And who in the world cannot relate to that?
Keep pushing Scotland, if not just to get Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, et al and other assassins off our backs in the short term. Is there no sanctuary anywhere on Earth from the monstrous sins of ‘man’, misrepresented identity and forgotten history?
Jon, as an aside, the writings of Khalil Gibran are beautiful to the ear, but when spoken in Lebanese are even more beautiful.
I think there are plenty of Scots that seem themselves as Scottish/British, not simply Scottish.
Scots also have a close affinity with Europe, rather than England, and a significant factor in their decision to remain part of the UK was that it was its membership of the EU.
Scotland would have found qualification for EU membership difficult as an independent nation.
But now that the UK has removed itself from the EU, there is likely to be a renewed push for independence and Scottish EU membership. Although the problems of UK border control and lack of a Scottish currency remain significant barriers.
There are a few things they’d need, AC, to be accepted into the EU: A defence force, a postal service, a social security system to name a few.
They do have their own banknotes. I have a number of them, thinking I could exchange them at Travelex here in Australia. Alas, no. They don’t accept Scottish currency.
If anybody’s off the Scotland in the near future … I have a spare £100 laying around. My exchange rates are good, btw.
I seemn to remember a report several years ago, where Blair worked away to ensure the profits from North Sea petroleum went only to Britain , with Scotland on the side lines after finding out Scottish nationalism was too robust (for the
City)
Paul Walter, in 1999 the English secretly moved the maritime border north ensuring that 7 more oil fields were located in England.
The English have always looked down on the Scots.
I even heard one bloke say that the Loch Ness Monster is British. The nerve of him. The arrogance. How much lower can a person go?