Obama and CFK leave trade issues aside and want to continue as ‘friends and partners’
President Cristina Fernández and US President Barack Obama agreed to work upon trade differences “which in no way conform the central aspects of the bilateral relationship” during their Saturday afternoon half hour meeting with an “open agenda” at the 6th Summit of the Americas hosted by Colombia.
After the bilateral meeting on the sides of the summit, Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman and presidential spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro said that both Heads of State agreed on the fact that the trade relation must be handled by experts and that any existing differences will be worked upon.
“Even if differences may exist, they in no way will be the centre of the bilateral relationship. Other matters, including international terrorism, scientific endeavours and the environment are more important,” the government officials assured.
The meeting which was requested last Thursday by US officials was attended by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs Dan Restrepo.
“We want to continue being good partners and friends” was the message from President Obama said Timerman who did not reveal if the Falklands/Malvinas and Cuba issues were addressed. However “President Cristina did refer to the Cuban situation during the presidential plenary, since Argentina considers necessary the presence of Havana in the summit”, added Timerman.
The meeting takes place three weeks after the Obama administration decided to suspend Argentina from the preferential tariffs system in reprisal for the lack of “good faith” regarding the abidance of arbitration rulings which favour US corporations with over 300 million dollars in compensations and remain pending.
“All we’ve talked here is on the record and please tell the media there was no demand on the trade issue”, said Obama according to Timerman. The US president insisted that both sides must continue “to work together and maintaining a direct dialogue, and if there are small trade differences between us, in no way will they be the centre of the relation”.
Earlier in the day the Argentine president shared the lunch table with her peers from Colombia Juan Manuel Santos; Bolivia’s Evo Morales; Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff; Costa Rica’s Laura Chinchilla and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The Argentine delegation to the summit has convened 30 leaders of the 34 countries (Cuba and Ecuador were absent and Venezuela and Nicaragua were represented by their Foreign ministers).
The Argentina delegation to the summit includes Industry minister Debora Giorgi; the legal and technical secretary of the Presidency Carlos Zaninni; Secretary General of the Executive Carlos Parrilli and Timerman and Scoccimarro. There are also four members of Congress, two from the Lower House and two Senators.
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Useful for the U$, useless for US...
Let US put the U$ behind US and strive for UNASUR
The USA had a “reservations” footnote or something to that regard, and apparently Argentina rejected it. None of the sources said what Canada's position was.
Whatsoever these Americans feel like agreeing amongst themselves is largely irrelevant to the lives of the Falklanders. Even if they did make an announcement, it wouldn't matter... the Latin americans would still be knee deep in corruption, poverty and crime, and the Falklanders the complete opposite.
Better just to focus on the Atlantic, and leave Latin Americans to beheading each other over drugs and other nefarious activities.
What other explanation could there be?
By the way. I haven't heard anything for a while about the joint statement of solidarity that CFK and the Chilean president were going to make after CFK visited him. Also, what about the LAN flight and CFK's offer to replace it with Aerolineas Argentinas flights?
Tobias
It's good to see you back on here. I always enjoy your contributions. You're one of the most consistent at taking people to task from either side if you dn't agree with them.
Actually the most corrupt activity in this summit involves just the whole of the US Presidential Detail service and the entire USA military. Go figure.
And there's been more deadly mass shootings north of Mexico in the last week than in Latin America combined. Stay away from the Anglo American regions, you may be forced into sex with a body guard or shot dead in the office or university!
@12 It seems CFKC is being thwarted at every turn. Chile would not play ball. Still, I expect her team of 'advisors' are onto another hopeless idea drawn from the suggestion box at the last Kirchner Youth rally.
How does Timmerman still have a job?
Uh.... it's not just some guys, hello... it is the presidential escort and military attaches!! They could have “while drunk” given away major tactical and security secrets to prostitutes who were Al-Qaeda informers or some double-agents for country X! It is a massive breach of protocol and rectitude just on its face, but when you add the fact of who was involved, and that it was two US agencies... yes it is a major situation. the embarrassment part is the least worrisome.
Still, it is a mystery why they behaved that way. Usually the intelligence service act with a little more intelligence. I am interested to see the story unfold.
When you are involved in security and or intelligence at their level, you are never off duty.
And that is exactly the kind of compromising, attention drawing situation they should have avoided at all costs.
Would you mind posting the links to these credible sources please?
Thanks.
What mistery? Hellooo :-)))
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1jaVWiL51M
30 mins with el presidente ripping you another asshole and then no 'every country in the world agrees with us over las malvinas' B.furking.S, then Telam printing some non-truths.
How very Argentinian is that? (answer: very)
@22 Timmerman was lying his pants off in a press conference before the summit. Crash and burn; again.
Nothing has changed and nothing will change.
He then went on to show pictures of the nuclear submarine in the Falklands - for those that don't know it was copied from a British newspaper and was a picture of not only a different submarine in British waters but was a picture of a different class of submarine.
Epic, truly epic.
Thanks for posting GreekYoghurt, that actually sounds about right given Obama has promised not to move against the UK on the Falkland's issue.
www.treehugger.com/green-food/egg-shortages-uk-due-end-battery-eggs.html
“Colombian journalists assured that Fernández de Kirchner’s erratic behavior comes in response to the lack of consensus on support to Argentina’s sovereignty claim to the UK over the Malvinas, South Georgia, and Sandwich Islands, hence the no inclusion of the topic in the summit’s final report.”
When is she going to grow up?
'Columbian journalsts assured that CFK's erratic behaviour comes in response to the lack of consensus on support to Argentina's sovereign claim to the UK over the Malvinas, South Georgia and Sandwich Islands.'
Is this because no-one else in the continent gives a damn about Argentina's spurious claims?
I wouldn't want to be on the plane journey home with her.
I hadn't even heard that KFC had “stormed out”. (most likely crying) What did she expect? After Chavez was sent to Cuba to die, the block was like a chicken with its head cut off! haha. Another embarrassing, diplomatic defeat for Argentina and the Mercosquad.
A bit like when the American politician asked if she was on medication for her behaviour.
It's also interesting that there appeared to be a strong lack of support from her comments and also from other reports.
Perhaps her 'man friend' couldn't make it and she needed a good seeing to to calm her down. Bet even Obarmy's security detail would have turned her down.
She is getting more laughable every day.
Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner has stormed out of the Summit of the Americas in protest against a perceived lack of regional support for her country's claims in the dispute with the UK over the Falkland Islands.
The summit in Colombia had already been marred by a lack of consensus among attendees, with Latin America countries opposing the decades-old US isolation of communist Cuba.
Several countries put pressure on Barack Obama to end the ban, as the US president continued to be plagued by a US secret service scandal involving prostitutes.
Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman, reporting from Cartagena, said the summit was at risk of “falling apart” after Kirchner's exit.
“I suppose the collapse shouldn't be too surprising. There was complete disagreement about signing a final statement but the nail in the coffin came when Cristina Kirchner stormed out of the summit followed by Bolivia's Evo Morales.
”[Kirchner] was furious, we are told, because of the lack of full, complete support for Argentina's claim of control of the Falkand Islands,“ Newman said.
”We understand she was very, very angry that [leaders] didn't even mention the dispute over the islands with the UK.“
”She was overheard saying, 'This is pointless. Why did I even come to this.”
Marcos, Pirate, McClick, Think? Are you guys okay over there?
It's all furking nonsense from those parts.
We heard on the grapevine that the Argentinean contingent was told in very polite terms that the Falklands was a no no , and not to be mentioned, even at the press conference later,
Apparently Obama has had enough of this [childish obsession]
And he has an election to win, and the last thing he needs is Argentina xxcking it up for him,
Well that’s what we heard,
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Yes, get off the point because you cannot handle the facts that the Mad Bitch threw a fit in front of her 'friends' thereby confirming what they already thought: she's a Mad Bitch.
Exactly how does wanting to remain British instead of being stamped all over by people who don't like us equate to nasty, intolerant nationalism?
Agreed - we will not accept Argentina's attempts to colonise the Falklands but does that make us intolerant? Agreed - we are very clear on who we are and who we want to be in the future but does that make us nasty nationalists? Your comment is very typical of Argentina's tendency to lash out at us when things don't go your way. If Argentina expended a similar amount of effort on building a sensible working relationship with the Falkland Islands - and this would require a sustained long term effort to undo the damage inflicted over the past 30 years - we might actually get somewhere that would be good for both of us. And don't give me any nonsense about how much Argentines hate the British and can't accept our presence in the South Atlantic. We have a lot to let go about you guys too.
What, what and what?
“a nasty,intolerant British nationalism???”
If someone came into your home and told you that as of this moment, you had to stop being Argentinian and start being English, wouldn't that strike you as being intolerant?
My Partner bought me a book called “Lost voices of the Falklands” the invasion as told in their own words by the Islanders, British forces and the Argentinian invaders, it makes for eye openning reading.....
Telling certain Islanders that they were a “Threat to the peace and stability of the islands” and shipping them off to Montivideo.
Exactly who is guilty of “intolerant nationalism?”
we think you imputted the wrong code into your indocrination system,
please replace with , 000666000 thanks .
#46 “Exactly who is guilty of “intolerant nationalism?”” Look at all the sexist bilge above attacking the beautiful and effective leader of Argentina in the crudest terms, and also the racist stereyotyping of Morales as a drug addict when everyone serious knows that coca does not mean cocaine as far as Bolivians, as opposed to Americans and Europeans, are concerned
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