Timerman on Friday formalizes at UN complaint against UK ‘militarization’ of Malvinas dispute
Argentine president Cristina Fernandez gave instructions for the formal complaint before the United Nations accusing the United Kingdom of ‘militarization’ of the South Atlantic and Malvinas Islands be presented on Friday, according to a release from the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman will be meeting tomorrow (Friday) with Ambassador Kodjo Menan, President of the UN Security Council to make the presentation of Argentina’s complaint against the militarization that UK is deploying from the Malvinas Islands in the South Atlantic”, says the official release.
Timerman will also report personally to the president of the UN General Assembly Ambassador Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser and Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of the iterated violation by the UK of the almost forty UN resolutions which call for a dialogue between the UK and Argentina to peacefully solve the conflict born in 1833 with “the military invasion of the Malvinas Islands”.
The Argentine minister also has schedule meetings in the UN with the president of the Decolonization Committee, or C-14, Ambassador Pedro Nuñez Mosquera and the representatives from Colombia and Guatemala, that currently represent Latin America in the Security Council.
The Argentine government has strongly complained the fact that UK will be deploying one of its most modern Royal Navy vessels, Type 45 destroyer HMS Dauntless on South Atlantic patrol, at the end of the current Type 23 frigate HMS Montrose tour.
Likewise it condemned the presence of Prince William who is in the Falklands for six-weeks as part of the routine deployment for helicopter pilots and crews of the RAF Search and Rescue service.
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Sure fascist.a brit talking like that..you know how many milions will tab the brits at the back.....
I think uk is loosing the battle.....
Too bad...uk the Pinnacle of Stupidity!
MALVINAS ARGENTINAS!!!
They are ours.
And the oil is ALL OURS, too.
Yummy, but none for you.
But then, you don't need it.
You keep telling us that Argentina is a paradise on earth♥
you right .......I think uk is loosing the battle.....
Too bad...uk the Pinnacle of Stupidity!
MALVINAS ARGENTINAS!!! totally agree, mate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This isn't anything other than a shameless and pointless PR stunt.
I mean I can understand the Argentine position, clearly sending one warship into that vast swathe of ocean is of course turning it into a militarized zone...
Also it should be clear that Argentina isn't doing the same by having its own 40 odd ships sat in the region.
There's strong logic in this argument.........
Timmidman: Yacka, yacka, yacka, for two hours.
Ambassador Kodjo Menan: Thank you for coming, we will enter your comments into this weeks Beano, so everyone else can have a good laugh. Have a nice day.
Argentina: the answer to where are all the willy wonkers? (or something like that) :o)
Long Live the Falklands.
Down with argentine Colonialism.
“We're sorry that our shiny new ship is so intimidating for you. We'd have sent one of the older ones, you know, the less intimidating ones [type 42s] that have been patroling around the Falkland Islands for nearly the last thirty years, but we've decommissioned all but three of them, and they're busy at the moment.”
cameron and his cronies look more and more like pirates.....
The brits are soo repulsive....
If the argentines keep asking the same questions they will get the same reply back!!!
“The Islanders have the RIGHT to Self-determination and they want to remain as a British Overseas Territory”.
Just because argentina refuses to acknowledge this, it won't make the UK change its policy on the Falklands.
Long Live the Falklands.
Posters like 15 just simply intensify the feeling the British have that Argentina isn't trust worthy nor should they engage in a communication with a country that seems intent on name calling (both their government and citizens).
Honestly why would the UK engage such disrespectful, childish and nasty people in any form of communication other than telling them any aggression will be met with overwhelming force?
Argentina needs to starting acting like a peaceful and respectful nation to get on diplomatic terms with the UK because clearly it can't force the issue against the strength of the UK.
Let the argies goto the UN. It would be falling on deaf ears. If the argie really wanted to gain them back and push for soviegnty then they would take it to the ICJ, or are they worried about being laughed at there as well.
On 2008, Argentina have ordered up to five PZM[4] at a cost of US$120 million as part of its own Patrulleros de Alta Mar (PAM) programme to be constructed at its Río Santiago Shipyard. Finally on 2010 the Argentine Government launched the construction of the first four in the Tandanor Shipyard.[5]
The brits idiots are loosing...
Just comply with th UN res.....Pirates brits!!
The argie idiots are loosing...
Just comply with th UN res.....Pirates
Almost 40 UN resolutions - wow! See, argies, you can't even get that right. BUT, UNGA resolutions are non-binding and Britain is under no obligation to comply with them. And there was no military invasion in 1833. You can't invade something that belongs to you. The Falklands have belonged to Britain since 1690. 130 years before anything resembling argieland came into being.
Oooh and he has scheduled meetings with the president of C24. The UN Committee packed with Latin American states. Wonder why Britain doesn't bother to attend? Could it be because C24 is packed with argie yes-men and those that argieland has bullied?
But, on the South American continent, Chile, Peru and Uruguay are already backing away. In the Caribbean, Antigua & Barbuda has refuted Timerman's claims of support. Who will be next?
But it must be clear that neither Britain nor the Falkland Islands has much to fear. They are, after all, soiling their panties over one 29 year old search and rescue co-pilot.
'The brits are soo repulsive....'
You don't have to generalise,
some of us Brits are rather handsome, well groomed gentlemen.
Speaking for myself, I display all the best features of an Englishman in his prime.
I think if I took you out to dine, you would be truely smitten.
. . . . you are a woman, aren't you?
Your pathetic country tried to take the islands by force, and lost. Just accept it and move on. We forgive your stupidity.
The sooner Argentina just leaves them alone and ends all diplomatic ties with the UK the better.
Would you ban Argentines from visiting the Falkland Islands as well?
I'm curious that's all. There seems to be an increasing number of them that want to visit- way more than the numbers of Falkland Islanders that would want to visit Argentina.
The Falklands as they stand or not part of the American geopolotical entity and should not be treated that way, they are part of the EU. Other countries of course can choose their best dealings with the Falklands.
On a more self-respect level, I'm tired of hearing the Falklanders say they want nothing to do with Argentina. Well, we should grant their wish, not the way CFK is doing now, but by allowing the Falklanders to live in peace and engage with South America. Just not with us, simply pretend we don't exist to you, and that you don't exist to us.
That would be a respectul position to all parties: to the islanders by respecting their dignity,to our neighbors by respecting their sovereingty without any pressuring, and to ourselves by respecting our honor of not dealing with people who see us beneath their shoe.
www.oas.org/en/media_center/press_release.asp?sCodigo=E-041/12
And French Guiana the last of the colonial Guianas
So how would you classify Hawaii
As its not part of main land America,
Is it a colony of America then .
.
Great TV
They've gone backwards because their only hope is to befriend the Falklanders and they simply can't bring themselves to do it. It seems to be about pride and humiliation above anything else. They don't seem to be able to learn the lesson that if you bang your head against a wall a second, third and fourth time it's going to hurt as much as the first.
hey been reading this site for a couple weeks, and your generally the one with a level head :)
i really can't see how this has helped argentina. it just makes them look a bit like silly!
read link
www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/ultimas/subnotas/20-57748-2012-02-10.html
I've had a long interest in the topic since I became mates with a chap that fought on Two Sisters.
There was some terrible news that swept England today. The whole nation was disappointed that Maradona announced he had chosen not to be considered for the role of replacing Fabio Capello. I'm surprised the streets aren't flooded with tears.
I love the how the stupid argentines also made threats to kill, to Lisa Watson only to sign their names at the end. Idiots lol.
Mr Ban's office said in a statement that the UN secretary general had “expressed the hope that the governments of Argentina and the United Kingdom will avoid an escalation of this dispute and resolve differences peacefully and through dialogue”.
And this is what we British had to say on the matter
The UK says it is only carrying out routine operations in the South Atlantic, off Argentina's east coast.
The HMS Dauntless, which is due to arrive off the Falklands in March, is among the largest and most powerful of the UK's air defence destroyers.
The UK says the islands have been militarised ever since Argentina's invasion in 1982 and insists its defences remain unchanged and the warship is only replacing one in the area..
The UK says the islanders have the right to self-determination and it will enter into negotiations on the status of the Falklands only if they request it.
You see it’s not we British that are not calm about things, it’s the excitable psychopathic blundering Argentine Government.
That's it end of discussion. Now it is up to the psychopathic lobotomised sour faced bitch who is supposed to be having the best interests of Argentina close to her heart to back down with the rhetoric and come over to the UK and kiss Cameron’s backside and go down on bended knee and ask forgiveness from the 3,000 people on the Falkland Islands for trying to make their lives a misery.
it is suggested that the british goverment tells them to f.o.
www.lanacion.com.ar/1447661-greenpeace-desafia-a-la-presidenta-a-un-debate-serio-sobre-mineria#comentar
Isn't it great that your government treats you like sh*t, Malvinists? Pirate Hunter, if I were living in Canada like you, I'd be a kirchnerist too. Queen Elizabeth II is better than sh*tty Cristina and you know it lol
@ 53 Nice to see your beloved Cristina showing her real face once again, you f*cking peronist :)
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, expressed today his full support of the statements made by the President of the Republic of Argentina, Cristina Fernández, who upon vindicating the right of her country to the Malvinas Islands, warned that nobody should expect from her Nation “a response outside of politics and diplomacy.” Insulza highlighted that President Fernández “has made use of the only valid instrument to those who believe in peace and democracy: political dialogue; and in this way, she has the full support of all our region.“
The head of the OAS highlighted the decision to repudiate ”the militarization of the South Atlantic“ expressed by President Fernández, who also asserted she will preserve ”a region where peace predominates, where we have had conflicts that we have resolved without arms, among us South Americans.“
On the determination of the Mercosur countries to refuse ships with the Islands' flag, Insulza expressed his full agreement with this position and noted that ”Great Britain should not try to force the entry into ports of Latin America and the Caribbean of a flag not recognized by the international community.“
The Secretary General of the hemispheric organization warned about the danger of sending war ships to the South Atlantic and emphasized the ”nonsense in adding a bellicose tone to a conflict with a country that in the last years has expressed its desire for peace, and has not given any indications of wishing to change that a policy.“ ”On the contrary, Argentina is among the last on the list of defense spending countries in our region, and that fact alone speaks clearly about the Argentine people's vocation for peace,” he insisted.
Why is the single biggest multilateral regional organisation supporting Argentina's position?
WTF is the OAS?
Who knows & who cares?
However given that the shoe is on the other foot, you dismiss it. More hypocrisy from Anglo-Saxons. I am quite used to it by now.
Self explanatory, really ...
The UN has more pressing problems with other countries that are in desperate need of help,
The last thing it needs is a bloody crying spoilt child seeking attention on the world stage,
You he said no more ratching, it up
And what will CFK do,
The world is far to busy to worry abt you,
No one cares, no one listens,
Grow up.
It was an OAS statement I referred to...
post number # 62
im /was repling to the name of the blogg,
Timerman on Friday formalizes at UN complaint ,,
crossed wires we think .lol.
Try again, mate.
FYI, The Anglo-Saxons are only one part of our blood.
There are many others.
@75 I am starting to like you more and more Isolde. Sometimes you are too kind :0
>>The Anglo-Saxons are only one part of our blood.
Yes i know you are 29 argies,250 chilean and in total are 2800 person ah 3000 military there. It is a crisol de razas! As Timerman say it is a global problem that not only Argentina must go to ONU but also chile/ Uruguay ,Brasil becuase the Sur Atlantic is in danger. The militarization and the exploration of oil in the atlantic might bring a ecological disaster and impact in all the regionto . That remember me about the Oil spill in Guf of Mexico close to Florida coast.
I do not know where you get your data from but there are not 3,000 military on the Falklands (there are no Malvinas).
If you require evidence of oil spills near to home try 'Petrobras oil spills', in Google and see what comes up.
The only danger to the South Atlantic is from the government (and I use that term advisedly) of Argentina. But if you went to school since the indoctrination of history school books by 'Generalisimo' Peron you wouldn't know that.
she is a delinquent child that wants what it cant have, and does not own, it even goes to the UN with false claims,
The world has more pressing problems to worry abt, rather than listen to a child crying,
The down side is, like all spoilt out of control children they do not realise or understand the consequences of their actions, and will push this item all the way to conflict and try to blame it on others,
Remove Argentina from the elusion, and the south Atlantic and south American mainland, would return instantly to peace and prosperity, would it not,
Argentina is it own worst enemy.
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!
He is not as good looking.
But I am told he is a Troll from the UK. :o)
@77 More indigenous civilians and fewer British defence forces than you quote.
@80 I've answered your copy and paste drivel somewhere else. The real truth is that, if the British government follows the wishes of the British people, argieland's population will shortly be less than half the current figure. And those survivors will be diseased, poxed animals. Oh, sorry. They are already diseased, poxed animals. Just more of them. How wonderful we Brits are. Disease and pest control all in one. We should charge.
A few words to any Chileans and Uruguayans. We've had good relations for quite a few years. Probably something to do with the British part in the creation of your countries. It's something we remember. Do you? We'd like to leave you out of anything we might have to do to argieland and its supporters. Your choice. We like to remember our friends!
is an idiot,
he comes and goes with the seasons of the madhouse and asylums, just ignore him,
he is the last thing argies need ,
A few words to any Chileans and Uruguayans. We've had good relations for quite a few years. Probably something to do with the British part in the creation of your countries. It's something we remember. Do you? We'd like to leave you out of anything we might have to do to argieland and its supporters. Your choice. We like to remember our friends!
what an idiot! Who the f@ck do you think you are? You are a skid mark on a toilet bowl mate. Make no mistake
Now now, Helber. Settle down mate.
@77 mariana,
You forgot the Chinese laundrymen & the Zimbabwean de-miners, dahling.
All highly trained Special Forces here to help us repel another Argentine invasion.
Maybe, but it was you going down the bowl that caused the mark
Think on it or ask Think, you will both get it, eventually.
Enough of that nonsense. We aren't about to nuke anybody unless they start throwing nukes at us.
So, to everyone now, let's back off and see what we agree on: Argentina is not going to give up on the islands. Neither is the UK. It'd be political suicide for the leaders of either country. Equally, neither country is about to charge to war with the other, even though potential oil revenues are inflaming the issue. How about this for an idea:
1) Argentina ceases to harass and obstruct ships aiming to trade with the Falklands.
2) A short oil drilling moratorium is declared, until point 3 is resolved.
3) We look again at Falkland independence, maybe holding a referendum on the topic. Yes, I know, it's been declared a “non-self-governing territory” by virtue of its small population. But the population's now rather larger than it was when that decision was made; and other very small countries have gained independence (e.g. Nauru, whose population stood at about 6,000 at independence). And yes, defence is a tricky issue, but a defence treaty could be drawn up with the UK, and it could even be drawn up and on the table prior to the referendum. Commonwealth membership could also likely be arranged, and international recognition expedited (if not Argentinian recognition under the current administration, even with the financial possibilities implicit in point 4).
4) If we get a newly independent Falklands from this, they deal with whoever the heck they like on the subject of extracting their oil. If not, we carry on with the status quo, the UK go back to drilling oil, and Argentina go back to complaining about it.
What do you think? Too utopian? Would the islanders even go for it? Answers on a postcard, please :).
I always wonder what would happen if aliens invaded us. How trivial our petty differences would seem then, the whole world united against a common enemy. It seems that there is always a war on, on some scale around the world. Even in a quiet road you get neighbours arguing over the boundaries of their gardens, couples rowing about nothing. Some people aren't content unless they're fighting, its like a need that drives them, makes them feel like they have a purpose.
All we really need is a roof over our head and some food. Everything else is a luxury. Its a shame more people don't see that and enjoy what they've got. Argentina, shame on you. Is your country not big enough? Are you overcrowded? I don't think so.
Ideally this oil feud should be irrelevant, if we just put the best minds together and came up with an alternative. It really is our only option, seeing as most of the oil will be gone in a few years.
No chance, and rightly so. There are no Malvinas.
Get Argentina to remove the crap from their 'Constitution', pay to remove the mines and treat the Falklanders without threats for 100 years and you MIGHT be in with a chance.
Just might, mind you.
you delude spineless obsessed skid mark! Do you have to bring the Malvinas into every single thread?, smelly gutter rat.
Its not nice is it,
.
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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