London with no Argentine ambassador until at least 2012 to protest Falklands’ oil round
The Argentine legation in London will remain without an ambassador until at least the end of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner four year mandate next December, confirmed diplomatic sources in Buenos Aires. The decision was originally taken to protest the current (second) round of oil exploration in the Falkland Islands’ waters.
Jose Nun, a former Secretary of Culture had been nominated to fill the post in London but the Kirchner administration decided to the contrary when exploration for oil in the waters of the disputed South Atlantic Islands was launched by the Falklands’ government and supported by the former Labour government and later by the current Conservative-liberal coalition.
The last ambassador Federico Mirré nominated in 2003 left his post at the end of his years in 2008.
The issue of vacant embassies was brought up in Buenos Aires since besides London, and for different reasons twelve other posts remain vacant, particularly two crucial trading partners of Argentina: the embassies in Beijing and Moscow.
Moscow has no Argentine ambassador since last October 30 when Leopoldo Bravo died. He had been on the job since 2005. In spite of claims from different sectors, because Russia is and has been an important trade partner, there are no signs of any nomination.
In Beijing the administration of President Cristina Fernandez last January decided to end with Ambassador Cesar Mayoral following a long list of misunderstandings with the Chinese government and the cooling of bilateral trade relations.
Argentina is China’s main supplier of soy-oil with an annual turnover of several billion US dollars. The name of current consul in Chicago Gustavo Martino a trade and agriculture expert has been mentioned as a possible candidate for Beijing.
Buenos Aires diplomatic sources attribute much of the problems to the current Minister of Foreign Affairs Hector Timerman, (also referred to by the media as Twiterman for his propensity to send messages).
He has been involved in several unfortunate incidents, the latest of which the seizure of equipment on board a US Air Force transport. US/Argentina relations are strained over the incident in which Mr Timerman personally checked the aircraft, made a list of what was found on board and allegedly not declared, and went as far as forcing open several locks..
The Kirchner inner circle is also suspicious of Timerman who is considered a last minute “ultra-Kirchnerite” desperate to jump onto the bandwagon. He made several political statements regarding the possible re-election of Mrs. Kirchner that were considered precipitated and non timely.
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Clowns
Fool(s).
I really haven't. Not funny enough ;-)
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Paraguay and Brasil will take up the slack at a price that gives scope for UK (and Irish) beef farmers to flourish.
A pity for Argentina, whose beef production/export declines at an alarming rate.
Whine, whine, whine, bitch, bitch, bitch....................
if they had an embassy with someone in it, they would be forever being called to get a bollocking.
It would be very hard for them to explain why they are doing illegal things [again]
Still, as long as she keeps her head down, she will never have to back up her words to her people , will she ., she promises the earth, but gives only dribble, mmm,
Its good to see you have been working on your debating skills , Think, but for an extra half point could you show us all where the 'whine' and 'bitch' is in #10??
Still 'all mouth no trousers' eh Think?
the Libyan Embassy Seige happened in London in 1984 because a Libyan gunman/embassy official shot a British policewoman, PC Yvonne Fletcher, from an embassy window.
You know this, so why try to twist the truth into a web of lies?
Frank #14,
I have a little group of supporters who use this like a football chant when I post a comment - it is quite sweet, but really, it's just a joke - no harm meant, none taken.
Geoff.
You could, but it clearly didn't go well for the terrorists last time, did it?
Dam - And that was me thinking he was referred to as Twiterman purely because he is a TWIT lol
-neither is his embassy, but its sad. boo hoo!
Who are the Argentina Ambassadors in Russia and China, then?
Truth is the falklands was the falklands long before argetina existed as a country, and the islands never formed part of argentine sovereign territory and never will.
You condemn the British for what they did in the Chagos islands.
Quite rightly, what they did there was utterly wrong. I don't think anyone would disagree with you.
And I doubt that anyone would disagree with the statement that given half the chance, the FCO would have done exactly the same to the Falkland Islanders. Thankfully the FI lobby stopped them.
So what do you want?
Do you want the British Government to do exactly the same to the Falkland Islanders now?
If you claim the British were wrong in the Chagos Islands, then you have to be an utter hyprocrite to advocate the same for the Falklands.
If you do advocate the same, you're an utter hypocrite for slagging off the British in the first place.
Lets be honest about this, none of you give a shit about the plight of the Chagossians. For you guys its just a ploy to insult when you can't respond to the arguments that demonstrate self-determination is paramount.
You are a bunch of hypocrites who cannot admit that what Argentina advocates is wrong.
It still does not make it right to ignore it in the case of the Falklands.
Clearly you don't understand the concept of hypocrisy.
What happened in the chagos islands was wrong and alot of british people were against it at the time, but our government knows that we will not allow them to make the same mistake twice by doing the same to the falkland islanders. Hence why the government now stands up for the islanders right for self determination as we, the british people will not have it any other way.
And as Justin points out, you are simply using what happen in the Chagos Islands as a ploy, you want us to do the same thing again and not respect human rights, but then you condem us for doing the same in the falklands in 1833 even though we did no such thing in 1833. You are a hypocrite.
The islands never belonged to argentina they were british islands since 1690 when we first claimed sovereingty. Spain ceded their claim to sovereingty in 1771. Argentina did not exist as a country till 1853, and even then the southern provinces were independent native peoples territory, for which us british set up missionary settlements in years before argentina enforced a government on the natives in 1884 (tierra del fuego) and slaughtered the natives between 1880's and 1910's. In 1869 it was us brits that establish Ushuaia. So we were in tierra del fuego before any of you argentinians were, we built Ushuaia, so we have a better historical case for claiming the tierra del fuego province as british soveriegnty then you have, and as so, there goes any argument of the falklands being part of tierro del fuego province territory.
As for us invading and claiming lands, well didn't you do the same thing in 1880's through to 1910's when you invade tierra del fuego territory and virtually wiped out the native population to whom the land belonged too. At least we did not wipe out any native population on the falklands in 1690 or 1833 as there never was any native population in the falklands. Also did you not try to do the same thing in 1982, and now trying again with your economic and political acts of agression towards the islanders? Yes you are, so as i and Justin have said you are a HYPOCRITE
And yes you are saying that we should not give the islanders the right to self dertermination like we did not give the chagos islanders the right to self determination. Because you want the islands yourselves and do not care that the islanders wish to remain british. So now your an even bigger HYPOCRITE than you were when you made post #27. Congratulations on making a mockery of yourself on a public website lol.
Go back to your own planet as clearly your ability to read and understand anything extremely lacking. And as such, anyone trying to read and make any sense of your pointless babble posted above, will need more than paracetamol for their headache they get trying to make sense of your off this world babble.
Please for the sake of man kind, go take your pills to stop you from getting to high on our oxygen rich atmosphere, preferably before its too late.
To use insult to best effect, you really have to understand the roots and origins of language - for instance . . . . your 'europid' . . . . good attempt but it could be better:
Hominid (human being) -> europid. Weak insult.
Anthropoid (ape group) -> europoid. Strong insult.
I gave up believing the (lies of the) governments in the countries I lived in - all of them lie and most of them do badly - they lie badly and they perform badly, probably because - after a while - they all begin to believe their own lies.
Shows how earth shattering this monumental protest has been!
And there was me thinking all along that the reason for no Ambassador was just another typical example of Argentine efficiency :)
my people would cry for me
my people would fight for me
my people will even die for me
but as soon as i mention the British.
my people desert me .
truth or lies, its what you believe , that makes the difference .
sorry
it was a bit of a tease for the argentine bloggers to see if they belived all what they read, as to the above replies then they seem to belive all that they read, not the truth maybe, but just what they read, sorry to confuse you.
I guess every home has its dog house. ;-)
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