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“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. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesYeahhh… Mr. Timerman......... You are absolutely right!
Jan 22nd, 2012 - 09:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I 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!
“Argentina does not recognize de facto administrations. We recognize de jure (legal) administrations, so we have nothing to discuss with them”, insisted Timerman.
Jan 22nd, 2012 - 09:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Cool see you at the ICJ then.
All Talk and NO action as usual from argentina!!! There is Nothing to negotiate the Islanders want to remain as part of the British Overseas Territory!!!
Jan 22nd, 2012 - 09:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Long Live the Falklands.
“Argentina not looking to organize a blockade of the Falklands”, says Timerman - ho ho, I rather think either the white man speaks with forked tongue or the old devil has gone completely deusional
Jan 22nd, 2012 - 10:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Think you can't have North sea resources anymore than Uk can have South Atlantic resources. Falkland islanders though are entitled to south atlantic resources upto 200 miles from their coasts. And before you say anything UK as a whole loses a lot more from the internationally recognised 200 mile economic exclusion zone than it gains economically because it can't fish Icelandic coastal waters. And iceland knows how to defend it's waters they fight a lot more intelligently and bravely than any Argentine is capable of.
Jan 22nd, 2012 - 10:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And iceland knows how to defend it's waters they fight a lot more intelligently and bravely than any Argentine is capable of.
Jan 22nd, 2012 - 10:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If 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
Herr Von timmerman Ze minister of Propaganda is at it again.“ Big Ben ist kaput” is probably his next comment.
Jan 22nd, 2012 - 10:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Very 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 UN has failed to stop genocide and mass murder on numerous occasions, it is irrelevant. It wasn't the UN that defeated the rebels in Sierra Leone it was the British Army.
Jan 22nd, 2012 - 10:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The 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!
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Jan 22nd, 2012 - 10:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yeahh.... I remember.....
One of Tony Blair's “little wars”......
Precursor of Iraq and Afghanistan.....
Yes Think, and a highly sucessful one that saved many thousands of lives and stopped people havig their limbs hacked off. The people of Sierra Leone love Britain and Tony Blair for that and Tony is now the most common name among the children in that country.
Jan 22nd, 2012 - 10:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We 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?
Nope.............
Jan 22nd, 2012 - 10:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I 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
Well now theres one for you the city army as a source of good whatever is new.Usually it was them who initiated the ethnic cleansing.
Jan 22nd, 2012 - 11:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But as Timerman says the UN and even the US wants the two countries to negotiate.
As you know I disagree with Iraq, but Afganistan has been a problem for generations and does need addressing (the UN agrees with this). The problem is multifactorial and can only be addressed by working around the complex tribal nature of that country. I doubt that nation will find peace in my lifetime which is a shame as it has some stunning lakes and valleys that I would love to visit.
Jan 22nd, 2012 - 11:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As 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.
(13) A perfect example of Anglo ethnocentricity and haughtiness:
Jan 22nd, 2012 - 11:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”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
Hector Timerman
Jan 22nd, 2012 - 11:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This 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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So - Tinman has been forced to tell the world that there is no blockade ! Which means that his neighbours can now quote him when they do business with the Falklands.
Jan 22nd, 2012 - 11:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Appear 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 fraudulently misrepresents the facts, which themselves prove the wicked falsehoods Mr Timerman utters : UN Charter Article 73 specifically grants the peoples of non-self-governing territories the right to self-determination, UN General Assembly Resolution 1514(XV) provides for the self-determination of the Falkland Islands, which are listed as a non-self-governing territory and UN General Assembly Resolution 2065(XX) confirms that resolution 11514(XV) covers the case of the Falkland Islands
Jan 23rd, 2012 - 01:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Mr. 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
Mr sunday: Too many killing done by the uk.Shame on the brits...In this one the brits wins 10-0 to Argentina....Strange that many Londoners,brits visiting/living in Argentina,found one of the most amicable and friendly people....
Jan 23rd, 2012 - 03:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0Timerman the Ukrainian..... there seem to be precious few in the RG government who aren't fresh off the boat.
Jan 23rd, 2012 - 05:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0@18
Jan 23rd, 2012 - 09:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0That'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.
The US position is also a wake-up call to the British government and foreign office and Gilbert House that you had better talk to ALL the American politicians or they will be believing Argentine tripe from the current US Argentine ambassador.
Jan 23rd, 2012 - 09:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina are not trying to blockade the Falklands (anymore) because their neighbours told them to get lost.
Jan 23rd, 2012 - 10:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0I love the use of 'haughty' by an Argentine. That is exactly how the Latin American people describe the Argentines. : )
News just in, an American company is apparently in negotiations with Rockhopper, flew down to Stanley yesterday, what were you saying about the US again Twitterman?
Jan 23rd, 2012 - 10:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0timerman & Argentina will be sitting & waiting a long, long time.
Jan 23rd, 2012 - 12:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Such a good job Argentina once again and again! The whole world speaks of the sovereignty dispute all the time, gets to know the truth and becomes aware of Argentina's peaceful stance and growing support. This is exactly the least that the UK expects: the existence of the dispute and the need to solve it cannot be no longer hidden or denied! Come to terms with it UK both in London and your colony!
Jan 23rd, 2012 - 12:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“I demand my share of the natural resources of the North Sea!”
Jan 23rd, 2012 - 12:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Typical Argentine, demanding what isn't theirs.
18 Malvinero1 (#)-----.Strange that many Londoners,brits visiting/living in Argentina,found one of the most amicable and friendly people.... No what they found was a people brainwashed and ready to stab them in the back when their backs were turned and after lying to their faces.
Jan 23rd, 2012 - 12:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0By 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)
Argentina didnt exist when UK first claimed Falklands. Argentian in herited its spurious claim fro the Spanish Empire!!! clues in the name. Why not claim French Guyana thats as its a long distance from france to SA. Argentines are a mainly european descendants of colonists so cant really see the difference!!!
Jan 23rd, 2012 - 01:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We should all remember that Timmidman has had the ideal training to be a lying, devious, bastard. He was a journalist for his old man's business!
Jan 23rd, 2012 - 03:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Apart from James Nielson, which other journalist would anyone trust?
I find it interesting, the Argentina government preaches peace, yet they make a test missiles, for a land that preached peace, they try very hard to hide things,
Jan 23rd, 2012 - 07:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://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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No mention of Hague challenging argentinas version of history then.
Jan 23rd, 2012 - 07:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In fact according to this article no mention of history at all!
25 Alejomartinez
Jan 23rd, 2012 - 11:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0'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.
At least 4 billion have probably never heard of Argentina.
Jan 24th, 2012 - 03:18 am - Link - Report abuse 030 briton
Jan 24th, 2012 - 10:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0Interesting 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
Also says its a surface to surface missile! Prehaps its a mini tactical nuke for use against the Indians.
Jan 24th, 2012 - 08:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0its possable, just goes to show, they do try . lol.
Jan 24th, 2012 - 08:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 034 cont MP lost the end of my post
Jan 25th, 2012 - 09:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0To 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.
I would imaging that by the time they get it into production, [if they ever do]
Jan 25th, 2012 - 06:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It will probably be years out of date, and cost a bomb ?
Just like their new , old , Eveready sub .lol.
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Wot ARA Argiecooker, with a sign on the outside hatch saying “do not open untill after you hear the ping”. Wont be hard to track glow-in-the-dark Argynaughts.
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