“Argentina not looking to organize a blockade of the Malvinas”, says Timerman
Argentine Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman said that Argentina “is not looking to organize a blockade of the Malvinas” but only wants “to counter British interests” based on the Unasur and Mercosur decisions to bar Falklands’ flagged vessels from having access to regional ports.
Timerman in a long Sunday interview with the pro-government newspaper Pagina 12 replied to Foreign Secretary William Hague who in a Saturday article in The Times stated that “if Argentina is genuinely interested in progress it should stop these attempts to intimidate a civilian population”.
Regarding Hague’s call for the Falklands, Britain and Argentina to work together in the South Atlantic neighbourhood in “our common interest”, Timerman replied ironically saying “why not discuss sharing the natural resources in the North Sea”.
“The South Atlantic and the territories where they (UK) want to work jointly belong to Argentina” said the minister adding that “it’s as if I pretended to exercise common rights over the City of Liverpool, as if we sat down to discuss sharing the North Sea natural resources”.
Further on Timerman said that “the United Nations does not recognize Malvinas Islanders’ right to self determination, or that they should be part of the dialogue” and reiterated the request to the British government to “sit down and negotiate, as it was established by the UN“.
“According to the UN, the only ones who can negotiate are Great Britain and Argentina. Only the two countries can speak as litigants and not the Islanders”. He added that it was time for the UK to ”sit down and negotiate“ and remembered that Argentina “is already sitting and waiting”.
He went on to warn that “if the most powerful countries do not comply with the UN, then the UN will cease to have any meaning at all”.
“Argentina does not recognize de facto administrations. We recognize de jure (legal) administrations, so we have nothing to discuss with them”, insisted Timerman.
Finally asked about the US government statement on the Malvinas situation, Timerman said to be glad since “the United States recognized that there is a pending bilateral sovereignty issue between Argentina and the United Kingdom.”
”The US position is also a wake-up call to the British government to abandon the militaristic path and accept to sit down and start negotiations”, concluded the Argentine Foreign Affairs minister.
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I am an Argentinean citizen that feels at home in Scotland, owns a Eribé Raglan Peerie-Wool Cardigan, a Black Sheep Aran-Pullover and certainly knows his Single Malts...
I demand my share of the natural resources of the North Sea!
Cool see you at the ICJ then.
Long Live the Falklands.
If the argies really thought the oil was theirs why dont they fight for it?love to see the argies pulling up with a rig in the north sea,wouldnt be there for long
so they know in their hearts it aint theirs,or are they that gutless
Very good with words but very poor with action. You are not one step closer to colonisation of the Falkland Islands. You need more than words old boy.
The only thing worth discussing is a farm-in deal. I hear Anadarko is the front runner and with their connections to The Pentagon and the US administration I think we are about to find out the real US policy and it invovles $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ and not the worthless and spineless words from baldy and the medicated one :-) Yummy!
Yeahh.... I remember.....
One of Tony Blair's “little wars”......
Precursor of Iraq and Afghanistan.....
We stopped the massacres there and in Kosovo (UK had command of that operation and where the first on the ground). I take it you disagree with both of these interventions that were humanitarian and military successes?
I did like Tony and his ideals in the early years......
Until ”British Haughtiness” made the UK believe they could go on water.
Iraq and Afghanistan were the wake up calls
That’s why we need the UN
But as Timerman says the UN and even the US wants the two countries to negotiate.
As for Sierra Leone, my wife's school has a project that I intend to tag along on in the next couple of years. Done East Africa but not West yet.
Our intervention is a perfect example of the appropriate application of military force (by a single nation, too many cooks etc.) and the uselessness of the UN at dealing with such pressing issues. Ultimatly it is boots on the ground that resolves these problems not suits in Ivory Towers.
”Our intervention is a perfect example of the appropriate application of military force (by a single nation, too many cooks etc.) and the uselessness of the UN at dealing with such pressing issues.”
Maybe you Brits are in direct contact with the Almighty, who tells you exactly who must die and who may live?
What a Turnip
This guy deserves to be in a loony bin,
Stupidity has nothing on him,
And the article funny as it may be, shows nothing new,
He like most argie government officials are just jealous and deluded,
As for the UN, interesting when it suits, you want them, otherwise its no good,
If you believe you have a case, and believe in the law, then take it to the ICJ,
I ask=what does it take, to get a liar to the courts to back up his remarks, that are so bloody inflammatory,
You have no claim, so sod off,
[but they think they have a claim]
All they have is a greedy obsessed appetite, and they know it, their greed is so evident,
Oil , gas , and other minerals, that’s what they want, we know it,, they know it, and their beloved bloggers know it, and they also know they have no chance of getting nothing,
CFK and her government and her deluded bloggers are nothing but indoctrinated deluded greedy , selfish land grabbers,
But when the inevitable happens, they will be the first to cry,
You are the biggest help the royal navy could hope for, you silly anti British rhetoric, may well force out government into a u-turn on our military,
As no one want a conflict, but Argentina thinks it can push and push , it can lie and deceit to the world, and harries the islanders, you truly think you can do what you want and say what you want, with all the insults that come with it .for you think you are above the law,
But soon you will push one step to far, and when that day ever comes, you will rightly deserve everything you get, [everything]
But hey, that’s just my opinion, but then im not the a member of the grand elitist, 8th largest country in the world, with so much potential and massive minerals and natural resources,
Being thrown away by an incompetent self assessed deluded obsession, of one woman’s
Ambition with a few tiny rocks, called the British Falklands shame on you, and shame on those who follow you .
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Appear that diplomatic 'cunning plan' worked out - for the UK. The wrold will be keping an eye on Argentina now.
Usual lies about the UN doesn't give the Islander's any right to self-determination, even though that has never been asserted, either by the UN nor the ICJ.
I haven't read the whole piece yet, but looks like Tinman was backed up into a corner a bit.
Hope he enjoys being there.
Mr. Timerman falsely represents his administration's wishful thinking as fact; were Mr. Timerman to try the same tactic at the UN International Court of Justice he would find that the evidential standards of the burden of proof most exacting.
The Falkland Islanders have execised their UN granted right to self-determination and democratically chosen their political status as a British Overseas Territory. This choice makes the British administration DE JURE as well as DE FACTO
If Mr. Timerman thinks his nationalistic bigotry suffices to make a case then Argentina should make that case at the UN International Court of Justice, if Argentina dares?
Shame on Argentina
That's a bit rich coming from a country whose national sport is throwing its own people from helicopters.
Herr Von Tinman is now looking stupid with his continued false propaganda.
Lord Haw Haw was laughed at and so is Von Timmerman.
I love the use of 'haughty' by an Argentine. That is exactly how the Latin American people describe the Argentines. : )
Typical Argentine, demanding what isn't theirs.
By the way anyone can appear to be a friendly soul, look at me I always appear to be a friendly person just look at what I write most of the time, if that's not appearing to be friendly I don't know what is :O)
Apart from James Nielson, which other journalist would anyone trust?
dmilt.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=475:argentina-test-launch-of-pcx-2009-missile&catid=35:latin-america&Itemid=58
Interesting,
Hope the link opens ok .
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In fact according to this article no mention of history at all!
'The whole world speaks of the sovereignty dispute all the time' ???
No they don't.
I promise you that the best part of 6 billion people in the world have never heard of the Falkland Islands.
Interesting link, Briton. This is a very small rocket and there is no data other than 4.45 m long, weighs 500 kg and carries a 100 kg payload. mmm!
That's a 20% payload!
To put it into perspective: Germany, in the 1940's built and fired in anger the V2 rocket; 14m tall, 12.500 kg with 980 kg Amatol payload
To put it into perspective: Germany, in the 1940's built and fired in anger the V2 rocket; 14m tall, 12.500 kg with 980 kg Amatol payload which is less than 8%.
It's a good job it's surface to surface because with these sort of parameters (fuel load approx 300 kg) if it lifts off at all it won't be going very far.
The Falkland (there are no Malvinas) has no need to worry on this account.
It will probably be years out of date, and cost a bomb ?
Just like their new , old , Eveready sub .lol.
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