MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
China and Argentina ratify crossed support for Taiwan and Falklands’ claims
Argentina’s Lower House Julian Dominguez with Jiang Shusheng China ratified support for Argentina’s sovereignty claim over the Falkland Islands. The message was delivered last week by Chinese President Hu Jintao's special envoy Jiang Shusheng and vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and is part of the reciprocal policy in support of Taiwan as a province of China.
Jiang Shusheng made the statement during a meeting with the head of Argentina’s Lower House Julian Dominguez who also underlined the recent Mercosur solidarity support to Argentina’s request in the Falklands/Malvinas dispute.
The Chinese top official originally arrived in Buenos Aires as a special envoy from President Hu Jintao to President Cristina Fernandez swearing in ceremony last December 10.
“China will continue to support the Argentine claim of sovereignty over the Islas Malvinas”, said Jiang Shusheng who added that “solidarity with Argentina on the Malvinas issue is an invariable position of China’s foreign policy”.
Jiang Shusheng also praised Argentina for its role as the rotating president of the Group of 77 of non aligned countries saying “Argentina worked for world integration and peace”.
The Chinese official called for the governments of Argentina and UK to resume “Malvinas negotiations” thus complying with the principles and objectives of the UN Charter and the General Assembly resolutions, with the purpose of finding a peaceful solution to the sovereignty dispute”.
China has long supported Argentina’s claim over the Malvinas Islands, the same way that Buenos Aires acknowledges the principle of one China regarding the dispute with the island of Taiwan identified as the Republic of China.
Lawmaker (and former Agriculture minister) Domínguez said that the Argentine government “has complied with all the dialogue requests regarding the Malvinas issue as mandated by the UN resolutions because that is the essence of the democratic system”.
“In response to the prudent and intelligent request from our President (Cristina Fernandez), during the last as well as in previous Mercosur meetings, for solidarity in support of our sovereignty rights over the Malvinas and other South Atlantic Islands, there has been an immediate and positive reply to that request from member countries”, said Dominguez.
“We will continue upholding firmly our dialogue vocation with Great Britain before international bodies, hoping this happens as soon as possible” pointed out the Argentine lawmaker who concluded stating Argentina wants the sovereignty dispute to be acknowledged.
“We categorically reject the standing political, diplomatic and an even military pressure UK has being doing with its representatives through the media, which are in the fringe of aggression, repudiated by all countries living in democracy”.
Jiang Shusheng at the Argentine Congress
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Read all commentsWell i doubt the USA will be very pleased to hear that argentina is supporting China's claim over taiwan which is an independent sovereign state. I bet taiwan isn't happy either. Looks like they are willing to make enemies with with said 2 nations just to get support from china, who clearly said “the governments of Argentina and UK to resume “Malvinas negotiations” thus complying with the principles and objectives of the UN Charter and the General Assembly resolutions,” Funny how its Argentina that is ingnoring the rights granted to the islanders under the UN Charter, and that the UN resolutions telling the UK to nagotiate with argentina are not binding and contary to the islanders wishes.
Dec 26th, 2011 - 02:28 pm 0Basically this is nothing but political niceties as china knows the islanders have the right to self determination just like the people of Taiwan has whether China likes it or not. So their is nothing in this other than the fact Argentina is getting so desperate they are willing to make enemies out of taiwan and the USA in the process.
while EU keep punching the old finacial demegogues schemes for solutions Argentina plants the seeds for a healthy economy with China and the UAE, it would be good to get India and Pakistan on board. no healthy economy can ever get ritch on the gains of the few but on the labor of the whole, we have to move away from international dictatorships trying to force constitutional changes to locals cultures if we want to preserve local markets. globalization as a whole was always in play ever since the times of empires and monarchys, China economy will continue to grow do to the demand from more then 1 billion population who happen to love rice, fish and soy, Argentine's will do well if they invest in a fishing fleet or dry cargo ships.
Dec 26th, 2011 - 02:43 pm 0LOl chinas economy will continue to grow. Clearly you not heard the news lately with all the closing and empty factories and increasing unemployment in china, not to mention the deserted cities. I think you will find china is facing major economic slow down and could very well collaspe in on itself in the next few years if its not brought under control. Something long predicted by economist i might add.
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