Malvinas dispute anticipates visits of Cristina Fernandez and Hague to Chile
British Foreign Secretary William Hague and Argentine president Cristina Fernandez are expected to visit Chile in the near future as pressure mounts on the conservative government of President Sebastian Piñera because of the ongoing UK/Argentina diplomatic dispute over the Faklands/Malvinas issue.
“We received a notification from the UK on the possible visit of Foreign Secretary William Hague to our country. This follows the confirmation from Argentina that President Cristina Fernandez will be coming to Chile although no date has been yet established”, said Monday afternoon Executive branch Secretary Andres Chadwick.
The top official immediately recalled that the position of Chile and the Piñera government regarding the Malvinas dispute is plain and clear, “we support Argentina’s pretension over the Malvinas sovereignty but this should not, as it was publicly stated by a Foreign Affairs ministry release earlier today, in anyway distance us or create complex situations to our excellent relations with the UK”.
Regarding the date for the Argentine president visit, Chadwick said that the Chilean government “has no information so far, as you know in diplomatic policy confirmations take some time, but we are waiting that the president can come and resume the visit that is pending because of her health condition in the month of January”. However diplomatic sources speculate the visit could take place at the end of the month.
Asked specifically about the possibility the Argentine government decides to suspend the air link from Punta Arenas to MPA in the Falklands, Chadwick said that “these are situations of a particular condition which will be seen during current discussions at Foreign Affairs ministry level with Argentina, but obviously this is not a point that generates an obstacle to what is the Chilean State position in its relations with Argentina and the reaffirmation of our support to their sovereign interests”.
Chadwick said he was not aware of a meeting allegedly between Lan Chile top executives with President Sebastian Pîñera and the Foreign Affairs minister Alfredo Moreno to address the air link with the Falklands.
Meanwhile the Argentine ambassador in Santiago Gines Gonzalez praised with his twitter Chile’s support for Argentina’s sovereignty claim of the Falklands/Malvinas.
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I actually like you lot! In fact, I have no doubts I could sit and have a beer with most of you.
besides, if chile is such a stauntch friend of argentina, then she and her bloggers have nothing to worry abt, do they,[or do they??]
Sawle baby - yeah !!
5 Lorton
That Dick...Sawle is an Englishman like you, what do you expect him to say?
AHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!
lordy,baby..AHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHA
What an IDIOT!! My GOD!!!
Of course, we know what will happen. Chile will say yes to the British. And then Chile will say yes to Argentina ......... but what will she do - nothing probably!
The LAN Chile flight will come down to a hard headed business decision. Personally I hope it stops - after all, good evidence of the 'blockade' that Argentina denies.
On the one hand you say “The LAN Chile flight will come down to a hard headed business decision.”
However, on the other you say “good evidence of the 'blockade' that Argentina denies. ”
So, please enligthens us: if LAN cancels the flights due to a 'hard headed business decision' as you claim, will it be evidence of Argetina's blockade?
*roll eyes*
Talk about wanting to have your cake and eat it!
www.clarin.com/politica/Cristina-invito-oposicion-anuncios-Malvinas_0_641336060.html
So - Argentina maintains its blockade, and LAN Chile has to look at its business.
Are you an idiot ??
MoreCrap - its not them she has to convince ! It's the UN, and Argentina hasn't managed a new Resolution since 1988. No good relying on dead ones!
MoreCrap from you,mate!!!
You must be talking about Cameron, he could not convince India to but their jets and begged the Americans to let them played with them in the Persian Gulf.
Tuesday 07 February 2012
“Britain was forced to plead with the US to take part in the flotilla challenging Iranian power in the Gulf after American commanders decided the Royal Navy had nothing to contribute to the mission”
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9064697/Britain-had-to-plead-with-US-to-take-part-in-Iran-flotilla.html
Falkland Islands: Royal Navy packs considerable punch, warns William Hague
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/onthefrontline/9052021/Falkland-Islands-Royal-Navy-packs-considerable-punch-warns-William-Hague.html
AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
guillermito: You do not have anything more “convincing” than this????
I think the brits are gone mad...for sure!!
“”At the same time, Westminster-based leaders will defend the geographical entity known as the UK while celebrating the recapture of islands thousands of miles away that the Government at the time had contemplated handing over. The early plans of the Thatcher government to lease back the islands were sensible. The current government should take a look at them or find an alternative of its own, but will not do so. The whirl of events challenges the mythologies of the Falklands War but no party leader would dare to do so.“”
www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/steve-richards/steve-richards-will-nobody-challenge-the-falklands-war-myths-6612080.html
But hey, welcome to a free press :-)
Not that it'll help Argentina at all. If Argentina had the support it claimed the Falklands would have been a part of Tierra del Fuego Province by now. You idiotas should not believe all you read - after all, people like me write it!
:-)
Lorton, your insignificant blog is followed by 5 Brits, Independent, The Guardian or Telegraph is followed by millions. Do you see the difference?
Now, I wonder how successful this League will be :-
falklandsnews.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/belgrano-league/
I also find great amusement in post 15 stating the most advanced destroyer in the world is no threat, the irony is strong in this one.
I really wish the UK and Argentina could form a sensible relationship that allows the Falkland islanders to live in peace then maybe we wouldn't need to have such an aggressive stance towards a country with a pitiful armed forces.
I would even support sharing the oil revenue with the people of Argentina its just a shame they are lead by someone who is more intent on stiring up bad feeling as opposed to closing the gap.
If there is one thing CFK seemingly cannot understand is the more aggressive the moves towards the Falklands the more it garners British fighting spirit and the worse the situation will get, if she thinks she can make the British people back down she is greatly mistaken. The British people are a reasonable people in modern times, please don't refer to history, we are not the same people we were several hundred years ago just like the Argentine people are now under a democracy now and not the same people they were under military rule.
there is a lot of truth in your post! Just one observation. Freedom of press is not curtailed in Argentina. The Gov't is continuously criticised and that is a good thing!
If we quote from UK articles it's because we can read in English and because many of them are quite good. I don't see anything wrong with that.
I don't even think his wife reads him
Oil revenue? How can you share oil revenue when there is no oil!
Type 45 destroyer..Was not the type 42 the most advanced in 1982? Was sunk in NO TIME....
Just shows the stupidity of uk..3 milions unemployed,1 trillion public debt,9 trillion foreign debt....
uk is STUPID!
As for the aricle in the independent that was posted in by Marcos. You really need to read the whole article and not just the headlines, if yu read it you would notice the british were perfectly hapy to let the americans do it themselves, its only when other european leaders begged to take part, that britian also decided to take part. They did not beg to take part at all, but only decided to take part due to france and other EU countries navies being involved after such EU countries begged the americans to all them to be involved and not have it as just an american excercise.
Any surface ship are vulnerable to a misile.Just look how many frigates were sunk by conventional bombs..They are too fast.You throw 5 of them and NO SHIP can Stop them..
Like I said: The conservative dismantle almost all the industry in uk.ONly the fading revenue from oil uk still have.LOndon was sold.there is nothing to sale anymore.....
And Argentina is boomimg in reality.because is not working on credit....USA,uk,Greece,Spain they were working on credit....That is finished.
If Argentina wants to play that game, well Argentina is nothing more then a spanish invention and they should hand all their land back to the native inca tribes of south america. Its laugha
Personally if i was the British Foreign minister , i would ban all flights /ships from South America to the UK (That will stop all drugs being imported for a start) and ban all flights/ships to the caribbean states who signed up (and no more handouts to them from uk tax payers).
Good luck in trying to face down British Nuclear submarines.
I am glad Iam investing into oils shares specifically in support of the Falklands irrespective of the cost.My father was a weapons officer in the Royal Navy from 1936 to 1960s and we dont crap from anyone especially some tin pot banana republics who couldnt organise a tea party let alone threaten UK.
l like that man. A man who says what l feel.
l too, would fight fire with fire.
They want to blockade us, fine
We'll blockade them.
No more handouts,
No more flights to/from Argentina.
Dad's uncle was a CPO in the RN & RAN from the 1930's until sometime in the 1950's.
l know that he was on the Courageous.
Don't know much more about him
It would be wonderful if England tried to blockade South America ohh please do could we offer more encouragement for you to seek the powers in the city to follow this route.
Of course the Englishman doesnt mention one thing if Scotland joins Ireland in leaving the U?K who will be left to fight the English!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ha ha
I don't even think his wife reads him”
:-)))))
@26 Didn't you say you could read English? (22) LOL means 'laugh out loud'. So your comment reads “laugh out louding a lot”. And you reckon you can read English?
@28 Oh, goody. We're going for statistics. You sank a Type 42 and we sank your cruiser. You didn't shoot down any of our aircraft and we destroyed about 100 of yours. You killed 258 of our guys and we killed 649 of yours. You wounded 775 of ours and we wounded 1,068 of yours. You took 115 prisoners and we took 11,313. And here's the best one. You surrendered. We didn't.
@30 You should look up the Type 45's capabilities. You will find that a single Type 45 can, in an 'intensive' attack, track, engage and destroy more targets than 5 Type 42s acting together. Moreover, you should take note that, in joint training with US forces, the US forces had to ask our Type 45 to switch off its defence capability so that they could do 'something'.
@33 Do you understand how much money the UK would save if Scotland left? Taking everything into account, it would be about £168 million A DAY! Put that into context. We could afford more than 100 Typhoons every day. Or we could afford 4 Type 45s every month. Isn't that building more combat aircraft every day than argieland has in its entire air force? And how do our Type 45 destroyers match up against argie destroyers? Oh, they don't have any!
And why would we blockade the whole of South America? No. The aim will be to totally destroy the ability of argieland and chavez to interfere in anything Britain or the Falklands choose to do. The 6 Venezuelan and 4 argie frigates shouldn't take long. Ever figured what happens to frigates when a nuclear missile explodes in their harbour? Then there's our subs!
“...I don't even think his wife reads him”
wife ?? seem to me that Roger as well typical DOM brit search for another thing in Thailand.....
”..Roger and Nice, and, right, Malai, a Redemptionist School staff member examine the target areas.”
pattayamail.com/732/sports.shtml
is really sad if that kind of person is advicing important figures, a disgrace and only is looking for destruction between anglo-argentine relations
The only person he never liked was Mountbatten who wanted to distingush between Officers through the ranks (like my father) and officers from dartmouth who would be given some sort of insignia and of course Northern ireland Paisley who used to shout at and make faces at (never swore and he never had tatoos). (that maybe because my father was Roman catholic and his father originated from cork in southern ireland ( though left there in 1890s)
Anyway re falklands , The argentians and co and carribeans are just full of hot air . I Just hope they find lots of Oil (RKH only atm) to wind them up even more.
Lorton, nice shorts :-)))
37 Since the American commanders decided the Royal Navy had nothing to contribute to the mission in the Persian gulf Briton changed is name to Aduphanel.
How are the inca snatching colonialist spanish colonialsts
a bit rich of them talking about ex imperialist uk, when there entire country is a colonial invention by spanish invaders.
Well when the argentinans try to even dare to get near Falklands by sea with military vessels . Perhaps you would like to ask the survivors of the Belgrano what happens when a battleship faces off with a nuclear submarine. The Venezulans are a joke when it comes to armed troops. The only thing the south americans are good at is Dancing and letting Nazis in to their countries. Hardly a risk for a defended Falklands.
oh by the way its FALKLAND ISLANDS .
As i said before just ban all south american and caribbean planes and ships into any British airports or ports . That should shut them up.
The Argentines are not a real nation, their country has only existed for about 175 years. Most Argentines trace their family history to Italy, Spain, Germany and the British Isles. The only real Argentines are the Amerindians and their nation is the entire continent of America.
The Argentines I know have Italian mothers, English father, Spanish grandfathers, German grandmothers, Welsh great great uncles. It's technically impossible to claim Argentines are a nation.
They also have the most comically fascist like government on the entire continent. Their entire policy agenda revolves around a group of islands they work 24/7 to alienate the population of. While spreading lies and peddling rants about “the British” that make Mugabe look normal by comparison.
Latin Americans find Argentina an alien culture, its a colonial relic, a piece of Europe transplanted onto a continent thousands of miles away. The culture is Latin European, with a touch of English and Welsh. It certainly bears no resemblance to its neighbors in Paraguay, Bolivia, Venezuela, or Peru.
Even the Argentine honour guards wear colonial uniforms copied from the British and Spanish Imperial era.
They are a throwback to another age. An age of fascism.
William Hague and Cristina Fernandez are expected to visit Chile in the near future
Why the fuss,
Is it because other countries in the south are getting all the attention,
And not her, silly really,
And now we hear that Hugo the bear, has now stated that his troops will fight with argentine soldiers if the need arises,
And we thought they wanted to talk,
And behind our backs once again they sneak to get others to do her dirty work,
.
What a wire twanger you are...
Just more of your BS, eh, teke?
I have been in Sea Cadets and Marine Detachment since I was 8. I plan to join the Defence Force as soon as I finish 6th form. Maybe to you I'm just a girl but I tell you now, come and see how straight I shoot. Come and find out!
There are hundreds more just like me, waiting. We've heard all the talk now come on. We are waiting.
has CFK made her speech yet .
1) VETO
2) Its the Falkland Islands. and dont know want place this colonial spanish occupier of Inca terriory is referring to . But its no good complaining about a non existence place . Some one should tell her Malivinas DOESNT Exist
3) ban all flights and shipping from Argentina to any UK Soverign terriory and ban any Argentine citizen for entering UK Soverign terriotory.
4) Argentina is itself a made up colonial country and to have the audacity to whinge about British territory is farcical.
HUGO muppet and this ridiculous woman will no doubt will be invited along by the Newt should he win the Mayor election to London .
Dad's uncle was an RC also. Don't think they were lrish. The family came from Yorkshire.
Don't you think this division between different Christian sects is ridiculous? All because a Spanish Pope wouldn't let Henry change his woman.
l hope they find billions of gallons of oil, just annoy the Argentines!
Yes, ban ALL Argentines from British territories & no help in any way.Ban their flights from our territories also.
Stop pussyfooting around with them.
I do like the way that the uk told argies a history lesson ie . The British claim is in 1700s and that the argies country was much smalled in 1833 ie much further north (in other words not only did they not have any right to the falkland islands , but basically they pinched other land to extand their country southwards). Nice one
article is here:-
www.namnewsnetwork.org/v2/read.php?id=184254 BW
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