State Department ratifies Falklands’ dispute is a bilateral Argentina/UK issue
United States insisted that the Falklands/Malvinas dispute is a ‘bilateral’ issue between Argentina and the UK and again called on Buenos Aires and London to solve the issue peacefully, through dialogue.
“Our policy has not changed” said State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland during question time with the press on Thursday at Foggy Bottom.
“We believe this is a bilateral issue that must be solved directly between Argentina and the UK, and that is what we are encouraging both sides, as we approach the thirtieth anniversary” of the Falklands/Malvinas conflict in which “almost a thousand people were killed”, said Ms Nuland.
However the spokesperson did not comment on recent statements from Argentine president Cristina Fernandez who accused the British government of “militarization of the South Atlantic” and the announcement Argentina would present the complaint to the UN Security Council.
“I’m in no position to comment what the British are doing or not doing in the oceans….we encourage Argentina and the UK to solve the issue peacefully through negotiations” said the Ms Nuland on a specific question about Cristina Fernandez claims.
Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman is scheduled to make the formal presentation of the complaint on Friday.
As to the presence of Prince William in the Falklands/Malvinas, Nuland said that is “part of his normal work” as a search and rescue helicopter pilot.
Finally Ms Nuland confirmed Assistant State Secretary for the Western Hemisphere Roberta Jacobson was in Buenos Aires and that the Falklands/Malvinas issue and escalating dispute would be addressed in discussions with Argentine officials.
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This really isn't argentina's week is it....
you are putting a bit nervous, mate!!!
Not to just mention history the UK is far too important in a number of ways for the US to turn its back on it.
So nervous? I think not.
“Dr Slowe may have forgotten that it was talk of leaseback which was one of the factors which gave encouragement to Argentina in the 1980s. I'm afraid these kind of solutions look good on paper but are unlikely to be properly understood or respected by a volatile polity like Argentina with its highly flexible approach to the constitution and the rule of law.
Dr Slowe was an adviser to Tony Blair. Peter Hain has recently disclosed in his autobiography that Blair also despised the claims of the Gibraltarians and wanted to enforce joint sovereignty with Spain. ”
OK...now back in your box wogboy....
Is that it is none of there business and they do not wish to get involved,
It is your problem so deal with it,
A fair comment we think , is it not,
Still, you have loads a friends do you not ??
Avoiding the expansion of communism (during the cold war) in Latin America in the 70's by the State Department, that's one of them ....
When the question was asked about the grain ” are you (US) buying the grain and the answer was no, so it was a matter of a business decision not political.
Argentina was supporting herself in the fight of communism period. and if the US doesn't think about Argentina because Argentina always adopted a policy not to be aligned with the US, very simple.
He is the first American to admit the US, as a condition for the Marshall Plan, told Europe especially Britain to only buy US grain.
My respect for yankeeboy has increased.
My question therefore is... how can you blame Argentina if her diplomacy is treacherous? Maybe because Europe, the USA, and other countries were TREACHEROUS TO US FIRST since the 1800s? Just a thought.
Unfortunately for Argentina she wants to treat us without the respect we deserve. Argentina is too weak and poor to play with the big boys she will get stomped, used and out witted every time.
The most recent example of an over play of RG's hand is Timmerman boarding a US military cargo plane and confiscating some material. It was simply preposterous! Only showing how inept your foreign policy is and how utterly ridiculous CFK and her minions truly are. Don't think it has been forgotten either. There will be payback someday and probably when you need something from us really badly. The USA has a long memory and is ruthless when needed.
Look at India, dirt poor but a world player. It's a matter of population as much as anything.
You know there is nothing wrong with being a “smaller” country in population. It is not a crime, it is not a humilliation like you make it to be. That's why your constant insults at my country don't really affect me. All we really need to do is half poverty and double per capita and Argentina would be economically a really wealthy country. As it is now, dispite the government, it is in the top 15%. Countries like Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Brazil have been doing everything right and still cannot surpass Argentina doing everything wrong.
Just another thought, if the day comes Argentina gets serious and the other countries slip.
You must had a bad experience with an Argentine chick or something... You are probably the only American that knows where the country is located. Somebody told me that it next to China once ..... hilarious !! and we are dumb ? :-)
That can not be said for Argentinians in general you don't understand your place in the world and I think that is why there is so much mis-understanding on both sides. You are arrogant but poor and weak. Who likes that combination? You can be arrogant if you are strong or rich or both and you are not either.
There is a big problem with the general psyche of the country. You will never be a player and you will always be easily brushed aside. Uruguay has learned to live with and use it to their advantage why can't Argentina?
When they do it is just an agenda, when Argentina does it is immoral. They can't see the double-standard in front of their nose. Or they do, but they are just trolling.
Either way, they are dim in the head or simple adolescents, both cases of which being rational and intellectual is a waste of time, as I told Chris in another thread.
Only you would say a country in the top 15% in gdp per capita and at the brink of very high human development like Uruguay is poor. 4 in 5 people living in our planet would most likely wish to live in Uruguay :)
As far as Argentina assuming a position as Uruguay, well the reason it will not is because it would be ridiculous and affected for a country like Argentina to behave like Uruguay in the region, just as it would be if it tried to behave like it's Japan. Though I advocate isolationism it does not mean not engaging in trade, that would be one area I would encourage.
Uruguay is small, and it is admirable for their maturity and level-headedness. I would copy that from them, but it's laughable to suggest Argentina behave in the world like them. If Argentina achieved full potential (lets say, doubles GDP per capita, halves poverty), it's GDP in dollars would go from 430 billion to 900 billon, plus 100 billion from the reduction in poverty would mean 1 trillion. If it had 62 million people like Italy, France, or the UK, it's GDP would be 1.4 trillion, very close to those countries.
So while far from that right now, it is not out of the realm of possibility. But even then I would advocate to let the rest of you bomb each other to the stone age... which i think eventually will happen.
???????????
no imposable, why has britain grown and argie sank,
please look at map,
slightly confused old chap .
then compare the population,
then concider this,
both brazil and argentina [your/their words]
have been growing at a great pace for at least the last 5 years,
now compare that with little old britain, who has flatlined in all that time,,, then tell me who thuse is better,
then consider that when britain does grow again, just who will be in front of who,
mmmmmmmmm
how about the british and falklands flag fluttering over the argentine capitol building, now that sound ok.
Please, do not try to see USA along the UK side. Read the American Newspapers, eve better ask the Americans who woke up with the FIASCO that Bush and NATO smashed into their face. I am sorry if I ask you too much you can handle.
first remove the offending article in the constitution.
and ignore agitators like [you are not the last]
mmmm
#33 - America would probably want Argentina to get hold of the Falklands due to the access to possible oil reserves surrounding the Falkland Islands. Everyone knows America is keen on invading banana-republics with access to oil. America couldn't get hold of it if the Falkland Islander's want the Falklands to remain British.
The RGs steal stuff... its in their genes....
This is Argentine islands and Argentine oil, being drilled by colonial pirates, protect by pirate ships, sooner all destroyed better.
Clearly, Malvinas is Argentine, claim exist since before Argentina exist. This is well documented that we renounce claim in 1850 but claim was resurrected under Peron who traveled to Italy and adopted policies of Mussolini fascist party in order to make Argentina great nation that it became.
As part of expanded living space, we must continue this policy and we must take over Terra del Fuego and Beagle Channel and then Malvinas.
My grandfather while working for Intelligence visit Indonesia in 1976 to copy plans they used for invasion of Portuguese East Timor and removal of colonial population to be copied in invasion of Malvinas.
If we had copied these plans our invasion would be success and like East Timor is part of Indonesia, Malvinas would now be part of Argentina. World has very short memory.
In order to do good for our country we must do bad things. This is what my grandfather always says.
We know Malvinas never been under Argentine sovereignty but gifted to us by Papal Bull in 1496. No one can argue with Pope or God, that whole of South America given by him to Spain (not Portugal, Brazil is anomaly) .
Go home colonial pirates w claim you land before our country exist, you can not argue with that. You live there almost 200 years illegally, you have no rights. We will own your homes, farms, businesses, oil and fish.
You will be made to speak Spanish, drive on right, obey our laws, live under our government and governor. In return we give you right to be reborn like our national hero James Peck.
James Peck is son of Malvinas War traitor Terry Peck, he was awarded MBE for helping British occupy our land. Unlike his father, James is brave, patriot, his father will be turning in his grave.
You can all be reborn like James Peck. Or you can die like Terry Peck!
I appreciate your sincerity, but I have to tell you that there is no way that Falkland Islanders will ever agree to having an Argentine flag anywhere in the Islands. The only possible exception to this might be in the Argentine cemetary.
Argentina is not in a position to 'allow' the British flag to fly here. It is our flag and this is our territory. I know you think you have a claim, but that is your affair and your decision and we are not responsible for that.
they have no claim, and they can cry and jump up and down all they want, they can cry to the UN and even cry to hugo the bear, but facts are facts, they will not get the islands, so soddy of and cry
That something like this was allowed to happen is a crime against humanity, 50,000-100,000 raped, tortured, mutilated, murdered and disappeared (Borges). Unborn babies ripped out of their mothers wombs, young children taken from their parents, who were murdered by the heroic Argentine military.
Anyone of you born in the 70's? I hope your lucky enough to know who your real parents are...
The Official Story / La historia official (1985)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7LF5II0wIY
It's a film everyone should watch. Feel shame because the specter of fascism still grips Argentina and as Martino Moreno said “If publishing the truth is forbidden, then lies, ignorance and poverty will follow”.
Argentina's history is still being written by Moreno's assassins.
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