US delegation at OAS assembly will reiterate Falklands/Malvinas a bilateral issue
United States will reiterate at the coming OAS General Assembly that the Falklands/Malvinas Islands difference is a bilateral issue to be resolved between Argentina and the UK, which means the US delegation, will not take position in a possible declaration in support of Argentina.
”As you know, the U.S. position has not changed. With respect to the Islands, that is an issue we should... that should be resolved between Argentina and England” saidActing Under Secretary for Press Affairs at the State Department Mike Hammer during an exchange with reporters on Twitter.
Hammer anticipated that the coming Organization of American States to be held next week in Cochabamba, Bolivia will be “a good meeting” with a “good atmosphere”.
“What matters to the US is to work jointly with the hemisphere countries and so advance towards a better future, fight poverty, attack issues such as climate change and see how we can work together as we did at the recent Summit of the Americas in Colombia, and ensuring that human rights are respected, and strengthening democracy” added Hammer.
According to OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza the dispute over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty will again be in the agenda of the OAS members’ Foreign ministers agenda “with the same resolution and success as last year in the El Salvador General Assembly and more recently at the Summit of the Americas”.
The US delegation to the OAS meeting will be headed by Roberta Jackson, Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America and the US ambassador before OAS, Carmen Lomellin, plus the support from the US embassy in Bolivia.
State Department spokesperson William Ostick justified the absence of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who will miss the OAS general assembly, recalling that the meeting was originally scheduled for “next July” and this came “into conflict with a long before programmed trip to Europe in early June”.
Last March British PM David Cameron visited President Obama in the White House and revealed that the US was content with the status quo in the Falkland Islands and ‘would stop prodding Britain and Argentina’ to talk to each other.
“President Obama made clear that the US was content with the status quo, under which the Falklands remain a British overseas territory”, said PM Cameron.
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Good for the likes of those prospecting around the Falklands - not so good for those that don't produce enough oil for their own consumption and struggle to get hold of U$ to pay for the shortfall.
Beware the domino effect.
then Why did you bombarded the Islands in 1831. ?!
They got themselves into a mess and it is all falling apart now. Hopefully the new Gov't will be smarter and honorable but I'm not holding my breath.
I doubt Obama has any plans to attack Iran militarily. Our sanctions are working, we will probably fund and supply weapons to the opposition and let them topple themselves maybe with a threat of bombing from Israel.
I think Israel will hold off until the Nov elections and if by some miracle Obama is re-elected they will take out the nuclear sites. If Romney is elected they will wait.
Time will tell but Iran is running out of money and has 57 tankers in dock with no buyers. Starving people get desperate quickly.
Both Obama and Hammer say “negotiation”, but they KNOW that the Latin heads sub-text is NOT negotiation, but capitulation to Argentina.
Obama doesn't care about fate of Falklands, but he still cares about wanting Britain on side (especially with Euro continent problems growing, Russia concerns and needing NATO strength).
Obama knows that Romney would hound him with a pro-Latin heads stance - and Romney climbing in polls. If Romney were prez, bust of Churchill would go back into the White House.
However, talk is for the ears of the Latin heads, but lets see what US and Canada actually DO now at the OAS General Assembly.
ahhh traitors turn coats stab in the backs,
coruption, theives , [says CFK]
silence,[say the british goverment] titter chuckle .
Let Argentina and Britain work out a deal if not continue as they were.
It's a bit like Manchester United's attitude to the league cup. Only worth sending the reserves or the youth team to play in.
Does Obarmy have any morals at all? Answer, probably not.
Why are so many people up in arms about people wanting to live the way they want. Look at Hawaii, it is 2400 miles from America and yet it is American. Why is this? Because the people with their self determination made it so.
The same goes for the Falklands. The distance is irrelevant, the context and the history and the self determination is why it continues.
No. It is just the Malvinistas trying to splice copper wire and fibre optic cable and wondering why it just won't work.
What is there to talk about? What issue really matters?
There is nothing that matters to the USA that matters to Argentina. Not that we would help them anyway, Argentina never sides with the USA. Been standard policy for 150 years.
If Argentina was an honorable country we would not be having disagreements with it.
Pay the Paris club, holdouts, ICISID judgments, abide by the trade agreements and you won't hear anything from us. What? You don't have enough U$ to pay any of it tsk tsk tsk I wonder if teh USSC will just let them take it from the BCRA reserves (whats left) in NYC? Maybe soon...
Toby, we missed you this AM I figured you were on your way to Bolivia to change your MASSIVE PESO FORTUNE Into something someone wants.
brr is the gas on in Patagonia yet? Did they shut off the large nat gas users in BA yet? Do you think the unemployed will join all the others protesting in the streets?
Honor is clearly in the eye of the beholder, then.
As for cheap labor, you don't got to look far yankee.
“USA unemployment up, job creation near zero, weakest in a year, well below population replacement level...Job creation collapses by mid-year, stock markets plunge on recession panic”.
Seems to me you may have to cut back on your weekend bagtrips to London, Paris and Milan. :(
Hammer's response was pretty well what Mercopress has reported, but an interesting thing was how LITTLE Hammer said before quickly side-stepping any added detail or elaboration, which Hammer had provided for other questions put to him.
Something going on there, and could be that the Whitehouse is caught between desire to play to Latin American heads at OAS meeting, but knowing that with Romney rising in polls, he can't be seen to sell out Britain on this issue.
Reference:
“El Departmento de Estado lleva a cabo una sesión de preguntas y respuestas por Twitter en español” at the 10:20 minute mark:
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gMPe3r5_bJI#!
I have been hoping for a mild dip to get that disgusting Socialist out of office in Nov and I think this may have done it.
Funny if our economy is in such bad shape our bonds are paying the lowest in the world and the U$ is the strongest it has been in 2 yrs.
On the other hand... I heard the Provinces have given up any hope of getting U$ this year issuing bonds ...cause the interest rate would be 14% ...wonder how they will pay payroll in Sept? Maybe taking telefonica...maybe how much to they have on their balance sheet?
LOL
I love it that provinces can't issue bonds (or the feds). I hope it goes on for another decade at least. Not allowing governments to borrow is a good thing, not bad. Pretty soon you will find out yourself.
Much more moral than the bushes of course!
chris: You ara PATHETIC!
The Argentine claims are based on historical inaccuracies. After “Convention of Settlement” was signed by Great Britain and Argentina in 1850 the Argentines produced a number of maps in the 1870s and 1880s which showed that the Falkland Islands WAS NOT BELONGING TO ARGENTINA. This is clearly evident on the '1882 Latzina map'
I have never seen Gay Armenian !
but,
I have seen many dowdy Armenians !
I have never seen cheeky Armenians !
but
I have seen many coward Armenians !
I have never seen masher Armenians !
but
I have seen many fool Armenians !
If CFK at thee OAS meeting, proposed that the OAS countries , stopped trading with the brits,
Or demanded that OAS member back a military blockade of the Falklands,
and, the majority voted for this,
Would the minority,, even if they abstained,
Would they be obliged to follow the rest, and enforce a military blockade,
Or could they just say , Soddy offy,
Just an interesting democratic thought .
@7 This bombardment. You have evidence?
@22 “What is there to talk about? What issue really matters?” Got one thing right. Nothing to talk about. What issue matters? The right of the Islanders to determine their own future. Please notice: Argieland talks about ITS “rights”. Britain talks about the rights of the Islanders. Get the difference?
@24 You're an argie, are you not? So what would you know about honour?
@27 I wonder if you realise just what the United States can do. Let's take a suitably dramatic incident. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In that attack the Japanese damaged or sank 8 battleships, 3 cruisers, 3 destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship and one minelayer. Together with the destruction of 188 American aircraft. What country could recover from that? Had Britain done that to argieland in 1982, it would have been the equivalent of the complete destruction of the argie air force and navy. But the Americans simply raised/repaired some vessels and started building. AT THE SAME TIME, they supplied equipment to Britain and the Commonwealth, the Soviet Union and China, went to war in Europe and took their own war to Japan. As it happens, Britain was doing much the same. As 1982 showed, argies couldn't have handled 10% of that. Argies would have been cowering in deep holes with their arms over their heads (all the better to surrender with) and whimpering for Mummy. It might be that you are “proud” of your cuntry. God knows why, but let's not go there. Do not measure others by yourselves. You are insignificant pipsqueaks. You are (barely) tolerated. You are trading on that tolerance. Don't push your luck!
@33 Please taked an overdose.
But we still don't give a hoot about you, so important and all (your words, not mine).
I guess it sucks to be seen as nothing important or relevant by insignifance itself. :)
Are there any Armenian population in UK ?
But we still don't give a hoot about you, so important and all (your words, not mine
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where did you read this item, i did not write it ,
I guess it sucks to be seen as nothing important or relevant by insignifance itself. :)
[ we did not write this either, are you reading the right blogg,
and it does not answer the simple but hilarouse question.
Do you suddendly become purblind upon encountering one of Conqueror's harangues? Read his post, then my reply's signification will no longer elude you.
There was a genetic research made in different regions of Armenia that detected the genetic codes prevalent in Welsh,Irish and Basques called the Atlantic Model Haplotype.
Ancient British ,Basques Myths of an Armenian origin genetic,linguistic,name square with on.
Ancient Britons and ancients Basques to be sure of being the grandsons of the Armenians.
but
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, you never learn unless you ask
One says to ones teacher,
And the reply was.
You will learn nothing, unless you ask, silly boy,
Oh and by the, don’t ask things as it’s considered rude,
Do you understand boy.
,,,errmmm,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Not what you write, but how it is interpreted.
It may hurt some of the people here but the US does not care about supporting any of these two nations.
That's all we need more money spent as if didn't have food stamp abuse, large corporate greed and other things that misuse our money
we think you are sadly wrong on that one .
we need each other, more than you think old boy .
Careful yank. Where do you think we have been spending our blood since 9/11 never mind our taxes. Who do you think we have been supporting since 9/11 and continue to support. You do not want it? fine, bring the lads home. Friendship is a two way street.
The British do think differently while you think absurd,if you keeping on similar thinking you must start to think will be on thud,if you change your thinking everybody start to think you are welcome to true thinking.
You must to think to develope your english.if not then someone start to think you learned english in an Africa Ubuntu tribe.
news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/tipping-iceberg-captured-video-tourists-185348588.html
Only country on Earth you can see this and a few hours later bask in the tropical rainforest by the world's greatest waterfalls, the 7th wonder of the world (officially).
Nowhere else can you see Ice Age earth and Greenhouse Earth.
Jaundice permitted.
One must think, that you are as mystified as you answer,
.
No one says that there are not beautiful and wonderful things to see in or from your country, infact, on these very posts, I have read people describe just how beautiful Argentina is. However what does that have to do with the disagreement between us?
Without our expansionist ways, the first video would be deep in Brazil or Paraguayan territory, the second video in the middle of Chile.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZAg2wOe2xw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh271FAVZ0o
Argentina's past expansionism (19th century) is severely criticized here, but it did pay off, doesn't it?
Do you have any videos from Norway ?
Your a piss poor run country,considering all the Natural resources you have,no it aint paid off
As I explained in the other thread, Argentina is too big for socialism and to small for free-markets. There is no economic system in existance that can prove to work in the country.
Still by mere inertia we are in the top 15% of wealth in the world, meaning over 4/5 of the world's population is poorer, that includes virtually all of the rest of LatAm, all of Africa, almost all of the middle east outside the Dubai/Qatar enclaves, all of the Indian subcontinent, and still the vast majority of South East Asia, China, Russia, parts of Eastern Europe, and the Pacific Islands and Caribbean.
Why don't you use perspective for once?
So what is your hypothesis then? that socialism works? You quote China and Russia , as I did. Surely you have have to agree that it failed there. If you are saying that there is injustice between the rich and the poor in the world, I would agree with you. However socialism has not solved that problem and it never will.
Lovely legal latin words Prima Facia, I prefer Mens Rea or the alternative Actus Rea. I agree with you about smaller countries in area and population, the only trouble is there is always, always someone at the top and therein lies the problem. Most will arrive there by championing their citizens and most will open a Swiss Bank Account, it is an horrible fact of life.
That may all be well and true, but this has no effect on the fact capitalism cannot work in a country the size of Argentina, thus there is no economic system that can maximize the growth of the country. It is what it is.
Yet historicaly Argentina was one of the major contributors to the world economy. She was one of the breadbaskets of the world. She still has that capacity. I struggle to understand why things have changed. Unless of course you are saying that in those times, the wealth and benefits of that wealth were in the hands of a few and not the many. I hold the view that the hard work and the prosperity of a people should be passed back to the people. No these are not socialist ideals. They are democratic ideals, it follows that those placed above us to deliver these ideals, should deliver them or be replaced, by those who will.
Argentina is far away from major markets and has an internal market that is not big enough to by accretion attract investment, and if you don't have a large internal market or are close to central economies, it is not an attractive place to invest. Publications like the Economist, WSJ, FT, et all may deny this till crickets can't stridulate, but capitalism failed in Argentina, not because it is necessarily a bad system or because it was poorly applied, but because capitalism today is not interested in countries like Argentina.
Since the country is too big to rely one one sector or industry like places like Uruguay, New Zealand, Norway, or the Falklands can, it can't take that track either.
I call it the “brown dwarf” effect. Too small to fuse and shine into a star, to big to be a planet that can sustain life. Argentina is a brown dwarf and the current economic systems do not have an answer for how to bring long term growth.
- Argentina has been winning public pronouncements in its favor at previous Latin American conferences and OAS general assemblies but Buenos Aires hasn't been equally successful in securing strategic or material support for its campaign.
- “President Obama made clear that the U.S. was content with the status quo, under which the Falklands remain a British overseas territory,” Cameron said.
“Special Reports - OAS dragged into Argentina-Falklands row”:
www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2012/06/01/OAS-dragged-into-Argentina-Falklands-row/UPI-25691338568473/
Because capitalism is not a panacea. It actually does not work in some circumstances. If you don't grow your population fast enough the system falls apart (in Argentina it was not customary for immigrants to have 10 children like it was in the USA, since the immigrants to argentina were more urban-centered and from wealthier backgrounds, while those to the USA more farming oriented from poorer backgrounds).
Your on dodgy ground. My mum was one of 13, my dad was one of 12, they lived in a city, my grandfathers were labourers, workers, none of parents siblings ever went hungry and weere happy, they still are. Do not make the mistake of judging others by your own standards.
:-)
Shit, good job it was not in the SUN or it would have been true, Phewww!!!!!!
American by Birth southerner by the grace of god... How'd ya like them apples?
read some of the interesting comments from the good people of the USA
73 Argentina has plenty to offer the Falklands like the pig you keep in your country? (most of which are in government....)
“ it is the english that insist in having a problem with an argentine territory that they are going to give up,sooner or later!” The British government does include England but also Wales Scotland and northern Ireland plus all our overseas territory's and dependency. Which Argentina territory are you talking about? because the Falklands are firmly British and have been for over a century nearly 2.
and assuming you are talking about the British Falkland islands then prob later much much later when the would is integrated into one big country
when it come to what things each country can offer the FI UK wins hands down. United Kingdom offers Freedom Argentina offers Oppression. simples!
“Argentina has plenty to offer the Falklands ”
Like what, exactly? Don't forget that we have already established that we don't need your schools, hospitals, 3 flights a week to BA and Spanish lessons.
Falkland islanders rule!!!
Argentina well can moan all they want its mildly entertaining :)
THAT is why “argieland” doesn't get as much capital and investment as it would like. Because it can't be trusted to even comply with its own laws. Who is going to invest their money in some place that can “take” their capital and investment at a stroke. Corollary: If you have x amount of money, do you invest it in an established, dependable enterprise or a guy who knocks on your door, describes rosy pictures and puts your money straight in his wallet?
Argieland is now suffering for its own untrustworthiness. You have only yourselves to blame.
@73 You need to get back to your padded cell and take your meds.
@78 Always good to note what “argieland” has to offer the Falklands. Crime, narcotics, corruption, “government” lawlessness, a failing economy, poverty, elitism, depravity, insecurity, psychosis, oppression. Who could fail to be attracted by such a prospect?
This statement shows just how ignorant the State Department spokesman is - England, alone, is not a political entity which can represent the United Kingdom in any international forum.
The British government and the Falklands islanders are quite happy together [thank you]
There is no problem,
Never has been , never will be ,
Unless you happen to be argentine CFK , then she has a problem
[WITH EVERYONE]
But it s ok. Those are the people chosen by the people we voted for.
I still believe that we need to worry about what goes on inside our own country.
@33 Please taked an overdose.
imbecile,conquered.THE reality is uk is FINISHED! PUNK!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbLfje8_jgI
mmm
“False Falklands History at the United Nations: how Argentina misled the UN in 1964 and still does”: falklandshistory.org/sites/default/files/false-falklands-history.pdf
@87 Great Link
What exactly??????????????????
Debt?
Incompetent Government?
Airline links with an aircraft with one of the worst safety records?
Spanish Teachers?
This is one of the funniest jokes I have heard in years.!!! Lol!
That said, Argentina's claim to the Falklands has no basis in 21st century international law. Argentina's legal claim is completely bogus, but Argentina has a good political case and will continue to do so until the last vestiges of colonialism are stamped out of the Falkland Islands Constitution.
I think you maka a mistaka (in Italian accent). Itzz the Argie constitution.
You have to make a joke of that crass statement.
www.StopFundingArgentina.org
Anyone reading this outside of Argentina sign THE FORM NOW.
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