“Unlikely” Peru would back Argentina in a new Malvinas conflict
Peru’s former Foreign Affairs minister, Jose Antonio Garcia-Belaunde, says it is unlikely that Peru would back Argentina if there were a new conflict with the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands, newspaper El Comercio reported.
Garcia-Belaunde’s comments come a couple of weeks after his successor, Rafael Roncagiolo, has said that Peru supports Argentina’s claim to sovereignty of the Islands, following Britain’s protest against Mercosur, which has closed regional ports to ships flying the Falklands flag.
“There is historically a very tight relationship between the Armed Forces of Peru and the Armed Forces of Argentina,” Garcia-Belaunde said, noting that this relationship led Peru to support Argentina in the war.
In April and May 1982, Peru secretly provided a squadron of 10 to 14 (sources differ) Mirage V fighter jets, weapons that included torpedoes and Exocet missiles, and its Navy provided the transport for war materiel to Argentina that had been acquired in Israel.
Garcia Belaunde said, however, that Peru would likely stay on the sidelines in the event of another conflict. He said the relationship between Peru and Argentina was hurt as a result of Argentina selling arms to Ecuador to support a brief 1995 war with Peru.
The Cenepa war was a brief territorial dispute between Peru and Ecuador over 48-miles of an unmarked border area in the Cordillera del Condor, the dense cloud forest mountain range that straddles both countries.
Former Argentinean President Carlos Menem was found to be illegally trafficking arms to Ecuador leading up to and during that war.
“I think that after what happened in Cenepa, it is very difficult for the relationship to be the same” said Garcia Belaunde, referring to Peru and Argentina.
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More evidence of the childish way South American countries (with the honourable exception of Chile) formulate their foreign policy. Peru should consider what is the truth and who is in the right and then proceed to actively support the Falkland Islanders' rights to self determination.
( we won't count Chavez as he doesn't count....)
He says that the Peruvians don't like the Argentines.
They consider them to be arrogant!
Well, dipsy-doo, Beth-may, who would've thought that?
Peru supports the cause.
Menen was used by the US to provide weapons to Ecuador, to balance the conflict. Everybody in the mother knows that !!!!!!!!
People who live in glass houses...
9 A lot of people all over the World like the Brits, I like the Brits.
10 Go on then - go back to Peru and apologise every year and then go to Britain every year and apologise for Argentina's Military adventure, naked aggression and war crime in 1982. Are you for real?
you are mixing the issues. Argentina was the guarantor of peace in the conflict between Peru and Ecuador .... allow me to say that you are getting confused.
F#$%^ng Menen should go on his knees.
I would go back to Peru every year to apologise for what Menen and Balza did !
I said
“Go on then”
Not much confusion there and anyway a little mixing of the issues is good - it guards against hypocrisy.
There is always a first time for everything Marquitos :-)
Is anyone here (other than Argies) really surprised by this?
He was told to do that ....
We should become Switzerland in geopolitic. No alliances, no shady deals. Not pretend we can influence the world wer are just not that big of a country. On the other hand, any time countries like the USA or European countries want our support in one of their murderous wars around the globe, we can promptly tell them to F-off. Eventually, they won't even ask just like no one asks the Swiss for support.
You know, I expected it, but have never personally experienced any anti-British sentiments anywhere on my travels in LatAm. Not directed at me or the UK. If anything it has been the complete opposite. I guess that proves that it is harder to hate when you actually know a person. Maybe that is why the Argentine government seeks to isolate the people and keep them looking inwards. Just a thought.
I am an isolationist, not for the same reason my government is, but it don't want Argentina involved much with other countries, especially Europe. And btw, I also have dealt with many foreigners and Latin Americans, I am nothing what whey expected me to be. Or do you think the getting to know people to change your preconceptions only works with Brits? It works with Americans, with Germans, with Arabs, Jews... yes even with inferior, miserable, treacherous argies.
Not a bad idea but in this modern world we live in is complicated. What Menen did in ' '95 was a direct result of 'playing ball” with the US. The source of my information is extremely reliable :-)
The meaning is clear.
You are now squirming around like the worm you are, trying to justify yet another of your inane comments.
Get this. Unlikely doesn't mean “will” and it doesn't mean “will not”. It means unlikely.
Understandy?
The more CFK pushes it to a violent conflict,
The more of her support wanes away,
The more she pushes, the more her mates can see what will happen
The more she embarrasses herself, the more distant they become,
CFK you are pushing your country to a point where there is no return,
All because of your obsession and deluded stalking of the Falklands.
What will it take , before you learn .
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I don't know that one :-)
in south america. we already know all your tricks.
that’s a very interesting observance sir, where did you find it,
We all know that it is CFK and her government that is dividing south America, unless you are stating that the British have more influence in south America that CFK has,
Be careful now .
If you wish to lie,, at least make it plausible .
in south america. we already know all your tricks. ”
It's so old, but it's alive and well since the US copied that tactic by the brits.
They lost one of their TRUE allies (Peru) due mainly to the stupidity and greed of former president Carlos Menen & Associates (including high ranked officers of Argentina's armed forces) during the Cenepa conflict of 1995.
Ordinary Peruvians now see this disgusting episode as a genuine act of treason and they don't want to know anything about supporting Argentina's claims over the Falklands.
The Kirchner-Fernandez dynasty is trying to involve other nations in that part of the world in order to make the Falklands issue an international concern; however, most countries in South America do not want to affect their economic/commercial relationship with the UK as a result of this nonsense.
In the end, Cristina Fernandez is just trying to keep her popularity ratings up by appealing to this unfounded territorial dispute and simultaneously, promoting the candidacy of her successor to the palace of Casa Rosada: Maximo Kirchner.
2012 may well be the year of the british, and the end of CFK .
33# I was beginning to think you were going to post a serious perspective on how others view Argentina's endeavour's to reassert it's governance of las Malvinas,but then you became paranoid about how the state of Argentina can make(yes make) the rest of the continent to support it's cause.A massive underestimation of these countries independent,democratic institution.And this to support your dislocated thinking,because you then want others to believe that this isn't the people of Argentina who agree with this cause,but because a dynasty is exploiting the continent and the people of Argentina with an imaginary cause for their own ends.
Now that kind of logic is the same kind of paranoid thinking that said Iraq had WMD's ready to be used in 45mins.Or to put it another way,deliberate and misleadly lies
“Hugo Chavez has pledged that Venezuelan armed forces would fight alongside Argentina against Britain in any future conflict over the Falkland Islands at a regional meeting this weekend.”
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/falklandislands/9063065/Hugo-Chavez-says-Venezuelan-troops-would-fight-with-Argentina-over-Falklands.html
then the gallow will come sooner than you think .
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