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Unasur delivers statement supporting Argentina’s Falklands claim to Ban-ki-moon

Monday, April 2nd 2012 - 22:46 UTC
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Unasur Secretary General Maria Emma Mejia met on Monday with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and delivered a statement from the twelve countries of the region in support of Argentina’s sovereignty claim over the Malvinas Islands. Read full article

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  • Britishbulldog

    Ok Maria just for you and seeing you are a lot more pretty than old turkey neck spit on her grave I will on behalf of the UK start the ball rolling on talks, now what was the question oh pretty one Oh that’s it you want to talk about sovereignty, yes it belongs to the UK and no Argentina can’t have it now be a good little girl and run back to old Turkey neck spit on her grave and tell her the talks are over and don't mention them again, and by the way Maria is your arse as nice as you face.

    Apr 02nd, 2012 - 11:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • SussieUS

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    Apr 02nd, 2012 - 11:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • xbarilox

    This is like the peace prize winners letter.

    Apr 02nd, 2012 - 11:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GreekYoghurt

    Tell UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that we'll be discussing the Falklands, right after those happy-go-lucky South Koreans transfer sovereignty of their “anachronic colonial situation in Asian soil”, otherwise known as Dokdo, to the Japanese.

    Shouldn't Ban tell the Argentinians that they don't even listen to the UN resolutions (UNSCR 502, 505, Nestor's unilateral walk out of negotiations) and the ICJ/ICA have no jurisdiction over Argentina, apparently. Argentina doesn't even agree with self-determination, so why is it even in the UN????

    Besides, these morons aren't even factually correct. The Falklands aren't in South America, they're 400 miles away. They should be looking at Aruba or French Guyana (again!!) for colonial situations on American soil.

    Let the Atlantics be the Atlantics, and let the Americas be the Americas.

    Apr 02nd, 2012 - 11:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • you are not first

    SussieUS,

    How could expect that this British who claim to win wars to like good looking people? Have you seen any Brit without miserable-old-pirate-theft looking?
    NO.
    Look where they were born( Do you know any tourist that choose England as place to LIVE?),and for how long they've remained servants of an old QUEEN.???
    They believe they so smart. You know how much we laugh the LAND OF THE FREE. BIG LAUGH at theirs so called ”Monarchic Democracy !!!
    They have to focus in the Women and Good Looking people it what they HATE the most.
    Poor and Old Pirates

    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 12:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Alexei

    At a quick glance I thought the title of this article said “Statement Supporting Argentina's Claim to the Moon”. I wouldn't have been particularly surprised to have read they'd dug up some Papal declaration from 1494 affirming this right ownership :))

    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 12:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • etherea1

    “The Moon belongs to Argentina but was usurped by the US in 1969”
    Repeat to yourself 100x/day from childhood until it starts to sound true.

    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 01:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Skåre

    Another banal statement that will be ignored by all and gather dust.

    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 05:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GreekYoghurt

    Ban Ki-moon could do worse than to remind them all about the key aspects of the charter they signed, e.g. their commitment to self-determination.

    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 05:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Xect

    5 - You are not the first.

    You sir win the award for best comedy.

    'Do you know any tourist that chose to live in England' Yes England gets about three quarters of a million requests each year retard.

    And the rest is too bizarre and meaningless to respond to.

    Anyway, I like Maria, she's a pretty little thing, its just a shame she's doing the bidding of Argentina.

    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 06:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Doveoverdover

    It certainly is a symbolic gesture, i.e. it has no substance. This is just one bureaucrat passing her members' declaration to another bureaucrat. However, all the nations that are in her “club” are also in his. Pointless, unless you think that multiple instances of this sort of petty diplomacy will someday add up to something. You'll probably gather that I don't.

    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 06:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • cLOHO

    Didnt the Reichmistress invite every SA countrys leaders and diplomats to her rant yesterday to show support of the continent. She had loads of sandwiches left as not one turned up.Now thats support :)

    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 06:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Skåre

    @5 you are not first

    You ask if we know of any tourists that chose to live in England. Is that apart from the 200,000+ South Americans who currently live legally in London (plus as many again who live there illegally) and the average of 150 Argentinian citizens / 4,000 South American citizens who applied for British citizenship in 2011?

    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 07:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • A.J.Rimmer

    Don't be too hard @5, after-all, since when should a silly little thing like FACTS get in the way. Better to deny all knowledge, and rant and rave about anything anit-british.

    Isn't that right Mr. indoctrinated goat hurder. Still 3 more years to push before you receive another vote pay-off from the Kirchner camp.

    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 09:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Alexei

    @7 etherea1 “Imperialist Apollo gringo pirate squatters go home”. I can picture a class of Argentine schoolchildren as part of their compulsory indoctrination lessons, sticking little Argie flags around a photo of the moon :))

    Iranian balanced TV reporting from Argentina: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY9kFV7Ak0w

    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 09:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • DJ56

    Words are cheap.

    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 09:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GreekYoghurt

    @15 All this 'educational material' (propaganda) is probably paid for by the European Union. It's just more messaging around Argentinian victimisation ... again.

    “We didn't cause the war, the Junta did, therefore we couldn't have lost the islands” is basically their sh!t logic.

    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 10:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • lsolde

    @15Alexei,
    Watched your video.
    Utterly amazing that the Argentines actually believe these lies!
    They are truely lost!

    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 11:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    I was fascinated by the crap wig he was wearing !

    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 11:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

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    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 12:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Alexei

    @18 lsolde No no, it's not my video, it's the Iranians' :)

    Argentina has previous for this. A well documented history of compulsory state indoctrination of its children. Their governments should be prosecuted for this mass child abuse and the resulting problems:

    “Going to war over the Falkland islands in 1982 was a plausible policy option for the Argentine military government is underlined by the fact that this conflict was preceded, in 1978, by an aborted mobilization against Chile due to a territorial dispute over the tiny Beagle Channel islands, which --as in the case of the Falklands conflict-- was accompanied by a bellicose indoctrination that was only an intensification of the traditional anti-Chilean contents of the Argentine educational curriculum. This episode, which put the country only hours away from a war against Chile that was averted by the Vatican's intervention, shows not only how war-prone was that Argentine military government, but also how much room for such policies there was in Argentina's culture: civilian support for such an adventure ran high, a testimony of which is the massive amount of anti-Chilean literature produced then and afterwards”

    ”An indebted and underdeveloped country with as much as one third of the territory of the United States but only one eighth of its population (i.e., an underpopulated Third World state), Argentina held the Falkland Islands during only five and a half years, as long as a century and a half ago. Yet in 1982 she set out to “reconquer” this land that has far less natural resources per square mile than the huge and underexploited Argentine mainland.”

    http://www.argentina-rree.com/documentos/culture_escude.htm

    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 12:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • aussie sunshine

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    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 12:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Skåre

    @22 aussie sunshine

    Looser? LOL Talk about an unfortunate Freudian slip when talking about whores :)

    Well that makes both Juan Perón and Néstor Kirchner losers then, because they both married veteran whores in Eva and Christina :)

    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 01:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GreekYoghurt

    @23 Harsh but fair... harsh but fair.

    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 02:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brit Bob

    There is no dispute. A dispute is between two parties. We are not in dispute. The Falklands are British. Simple.

    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 02:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

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    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 02:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brit Bob

    In 1850 the UK and Argentinian govenments ratified a convention for the settlement of existing differences thereby acknowledging that there was no territorial dispute between the two countries.

    Do you mean to tell me that Argentina is going to renege on this agreement?

    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 03:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • JohnN

    - Its NOT anachronistic to have OCTs and Outer Most regions in the American hemisphere, because France and Spain have them too.
    - Its NOT colonial because there were no colonized people on the Falklands and the relationship with Britain is not colonial.
    - The UN knows full well that so many of its Security Council members and others have non-contiguous territories, whether its Russia (Kaliningrad Oblast, Kurile Islands), US (Puerto Rico, Guam, Western Samoa, etc) - and of course Denmark, France, Netherlands, Spain. Goes on and on. What about Chile and Rapanui??

    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 03:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GreekYoghurt

    @28 South American countries aren't allowed to have colonies because they were colonies of spain (failed argtard logic)

    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 04:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • SussieUS

    @23 Skare
    While you and others like to insult sudamerican female politician leaders you need to accept the fact the UK produced the biggest neurotic slut that permitted her body cavity structure be explored by a Muslim man.

    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 06:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GreekYoghurt

    @30 Daily Express readers will be ripping their people's princess memorial plate collection tokens in anger at your last statement.

    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 06:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chatcat

    @30 SussieUS - you have problems darling.

    @15 Alexei - yep, well done for highlighting the putrid nonsense that Press tv churns out in it's propaganda broadcasting. I personally find it difficult to take lessons in anything from the mouthpiece of a regime that treats it's protesters in pretty much the same way as does the Syrian regime, plus tortures it's people and hangs them from cranes, in public.
    Of course, they also lie. I read on their web-site that the majority of Falkland Islander wish to be Argentinian!

    Then of course there are those who choose to take payment from Press tv and in doing so in my eyes are accepting blood money. Those such as George Galloway. I note that he would be happy to go to Argentina to 'sort out the Malvinas issue' with KFC in an afternoon! Would it really take all afternoon to give them away! I think it is safe to say that we can judge KFC by the friends she keeps.

    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 07:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    30 SussieUS
    If you are that loyal and interested in your beloved country,
    The please, take your self, and your family back to argentine,
    And approach CFK in tell her that sussi and her family will fully support her and her policies,
    Then you might have a valid complaint,
    Other wise stay in the cosy USA and be very grateful for small mercies.

    .

    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 08:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GreekYoghurt

    I really worry about the mental state of the people who voted for George Galloway. I'm kind of hoping that he gets deported to Scotland when they get independence, because let's face it, he hates everything about the UK.

    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 08:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • lsolde

    @34GY,
    l don't think the Scots want him back.
    l'm sure Cristina could keep him to keep the mice down in the “Pink Palace”.

    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 09:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GreekYoghurt

    @35 There are a lot of scottish politicians that I'm hoping will be deported. e.g. Blair, Galloway, etc.

    Apr 03rd, 2012 - 09:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • reality check

    Oh dear! HMS DAUNTLES just left Portsmouth. Wait for the inevitable response from S Amercia. Peru, please don't bother with the invite as a refusal is often construed as a slight. Miami, lock your daughters up, the Jacks are coming.

    Apr 04th, 2012 - 08:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • lsolde

    @37 reality check,
    Problem is, a lot of the daughters don't want to be locked up if the Jack Tars are coming! lol

    Apr 04th, 2012 - 09:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    I would just like to go on record right now to say that if going to bed with Maria Emma Mejia will further the British cause and pave the way for peace in the south Atlantic then I would like to put my name forward.

    No, no, no!!! Please, I do this of my own free will and I am quite happy to take the hit in the name of improving international relations

    thank you for your vote.

    Apr 04th, 2012 - 12:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Britishbulldog

    39 toooldtodieyoung----- Get behind the queue you young whippersnapper I have first dibs.

    Apr 04th, 2012 - 03:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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