Cristina Fernandez asked C24 for June 14 to deliver her Malvinas speech
Reacting to the massive media campaign displayed by Argentina, UK UN Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant revealed that it was President Cristina Fernandez who requested US the Decolonization Committee to schedule the annual discussion of the Falklands/Malvinas status on the anniversary of Britain’s victory 14 June 1982.
The Argentine president request of the 30th anniversary that ended the 74-day conflict is a move aimed at highlighting the ongoing dispute, but also to internationalize the dispute and “make a song and dance at the UN”.
Argentina has been intensifying its campaign to pressure Britain into sovereignty talks over the Falklands/Malvinas status for the last year, a theme it pushes in every international forum.
Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant also recalled that a decade ago on the 20th anniversary of the conflict there were a lot of joint commemorative events honoring the 649 Argentines, 255 British soldiers, and three islanders who died in the war and 'it was done in a very statesman-like way'.
“It’s very sad that this year the Argentines for obviously purely domestic political reasons have hyped up the rhetoric in a massive way and are using every opportunity to try to internationalize the issue and get support from the regional organizations and make a song and dance at the UN”.
Argentina invaded the Falklands and South Georgia in 1982 and occupied the Islands during 74 days later when they were finally ousted by a Task Force sent by then PM Margaret Thatcher.
The outcome of the Argentine operation was over 900 people dead, massive destruction, rattled other South American countries with border disputes with Argentina and definitively convinced the Falklands population Argentines can’t be trusted.
In effect since the early seventies, there were increasing communications and supply links between the Falklands and Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentine Patagonia, considered a long process of confidence building that was completely annihilated by the April 1982 invasion and military occupation of the Falklands.
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I hope we get to see the bunfight live: webtv.un.org/live-now/
VOmitive bastard!
The Falkland Islanders are British and still will be long after this womans is shoving up daisies. The more she behaves like this the stronger that opinion grows!
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Top ranking Dumb Fxxker.
I think we all know these are common traits amongst argentines.
“Reasons” that have not gone away, watch this space once the hysteria dies down.
God Save The Queen
I think it is irritating the ferk out of them, grovelling around the world, trying to drum up support for talks they are never going to get. Everyone seems to know that except them. Priceless, she would book a gig at the paladium if she thought it would help!
“he touched her throbbing inner thigh, near the shed for the livestock”
Who is this guy Betts?
Clearly since then no one has liked him and he fled to go and live in his new country Argentina, but he's basically a very very bitter man who just says nothing but bitterness.
KFC is on. She's about to talk nonsense.
I'm not really getting what KFC is saying. She's just saying things, but they don't seem to stick together.
It's very funny, disorganized, disjointed and makes exactly zero sense and is backed up by nonsensical evidence that makes no sense whatsoever.
She's talking about how far birds fly now and why the islands belong to Argentina because the birds don't fly to London! LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL!
Thanks CFK for not being anything anyone can take serious or respect.
War... 1983
Which part of that are they struggling to understand?
The date of Germany's surrender we do celebrate the date.
Is she an idiot?
Maxmio - could have been used a solider????? What on earth, with his gut he would be mistaken for a whale.
And now she's saying Argentina is a victim of the Junta, lol. She forgets the millions out in the street cheering the war. Sorry love, you're not kidding anyone.
She's an imbecile. He was forced to leave the islands because he was a traitor during the war.
You cant expect us to comply with a proposal in the 1970s after an illegal invasion.
Leader in human rights???????????
Demilitrised, funny I went through 5 road blocks when driving from Mendoza to Chile.
Rights of freedom unless you want dollars that is
Right of freedom of expression, except if you question the INDEC figures or want to buy dollars!
Liar, liar, pants on fire....
What a knob.
Energy- you dont have any
Food - is 30% higher due to inflation
science and technology - you dont have anything we want or dont already have
a) She did say she wanted the islands to be Argentinian, and then denied it.
b) She said she shouldn't focus on the past and then focused on the past.
c) She said she just wanted to talk, but their constitution says otherwise.
d) She said the secret paper only wanted shared responsibility and then said so it could be integrated fully with Argentina.
... lies, hypocrisy and conflicting remarks.
Not sure what you can take away from that.
Uncle Ban must be proud.
And will ignore it .
And demand they be taken off the list .
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Aaaaaand now the cubans are starting. this should be amusing
Well thats two worthless dictatorships down, wonder whose next?
Cuba just said it's all Argentine, and that they want negotiations.... clearly to resolve it to make it Argentine.
Hardly diplomatic.
Me too, they could all have stayed at home and lessened their carbon footprint. Why go all the way to New York, most of the buggers live next door to each other.
What a carve up though. Fuck em.
Bloody hell, argentina cant even get russia to hate on Britain!
Brazil says what? Pro-argentine statements? Gosh, how surprising.
So why do these people say they support Argentina's need to get the islands, and then talk about peaceful solutions, and then say there needs to be negotiations?
Did they not hear any of the Falkland islanders?
It's a bit like Taiwan really.
...or an appointment to keep at the bank
Chinas on at the moment
1806 and 1807 had ZERO to do with the Falklands and she and the world know it - so she just makes abigger arse out of herself!
And then its the Falklands Flag at 10 Downing St!!! Lady USA and Japan are no longer at war and are friends- had you not realised that yet??
Can you say the same about Argentina and the Islands in 2012? - err umm - and who is the cause of the current tension - who is threatening who? - err - umm?
And “ I am the grandaughter of Spaniards” - you are a mere colonial implant then lady - I have 2 more generations born here than you!
What a laugh - from start to finish!
And continue to be shafted? Carry on regardless.
Although China has not said much.
The bit about celebrating the end of WW2 and not knowing about D-day, Armistice day, etc.
Just shows she's not very educated.
Biased much??
@69 wondered when you would appear.
@68 they won't, never do
@72 Nica who?
they dont even know where they are,
pricks
It's pretty funny to watch this man talk.
Dear god, argentina's sole “strong” (as in barely interested babble motivated by anti west butthurt) comes from such pillars of human rights as Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Syria
Will north korea be next?
But seriously, a fucking syrian?
it seems to be ok for syria to murder woman children and babies,
i have never seen anything anti british like this shit.
tell to F.O
Lets see how he finishes
The falklands doesn't have nukes... they already said they'd just fire them from Plymouth.
I'm a long time lurker to these boards just enjoying the show at the UN.
Can't quite believe I'm listening the UK being ticked off by the Syrians. Is this what Kirchner traveled all that way for ? A pat on the back from the likes of Iran, Syria and Cuba ?
You literally couldn't make it up., she is one deluded lady if she thinks this is helping her cause.
Well done to the Falklands delegation, I hope the youngsters can see what they are up against now.
Should the C24 now be officially relaunched as the colonisation committee ? because thats exactly what they just voted for.
Thanks - your info about Betts answers a question I had about the Rattenbach report on Argentina's botched Falklands invasion, because as I recall, news was that it hid name of a Falkland Islander who had collaborated with the invading forces.
Although Betts today didn't say more than he left the Falklands because he was discriminated against for his pro-Argentine views, obviously, if he was an overt collaborator with the invaders, he should have left with them. However, saying one agrees with the Argentine invaders implies agreeing with the fascist Military Junta as well.
However, Penguin News deputy editor John Fowler dished on Betts that he left his second wife and kids in the Falklands so he could take up with an Argentine woman.
More on Alejandro Betts:
en.mercopress.com/2007/01/29/former-islander-running-for-mayor-in-cordoba-village
John Fowler in El Penguin News responde a Alejandro Betts:
www.malvinense.com.ar/smalvi/11/2059.htm
What chance does the world have with these?
And the Argies get upset when the West police these bastards!
Thank you for the link …
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Who pays there wages,
That was total anti British, and colonial,
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So what they really want, is to do away with this colonial shame, [always British]
And give the 16 colonies, back to whoever wants them, with or without there permission or rights,
It does not matter; it seems that they will become colonies of who ever takes them,
As long as Britain does not have them,
Totally crap.
Actually for the most part that committee simply nodded sleepily and droned a platitude about “settling things peacefully”, as was the reaction of Russia and China. Both Papua new Guinea and Sierra Leon supported the islanders, Brazil barely gave argentina anything other than asking britain to be nice to argentina, and the only nations which gave any real support to argentina were Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, which works quite nicely for us.
All in all it ammounts to a whole pile of nothing, with zero importance or credibility, especially given Syria's presence and babbling tirade.
It seems to be a common trait about people wanting to become argentine that they only think about themselves... they are narcissists who believe in Viveza criolla.
I'm not surprised all this nonsense was supported by a syrian.
You think the West is a democracy, or better yet, interested in the welfare of others?
The only difference between the C24 tin-pots and the West is the tin-pots just say things out loud; the West has the same set of values in their core but merely ensconces them in crude veneers of Enlightement propaganda.
The West is far, far, FAR, from the ideals of mercantilism, true liberalism, and intellectualism.
The mighty UN [ha ha ]
Cant bring Syria to heel,
Yet allows it to talk and support argentina,
Just Syria alone, embarrasses CFK beyond a joke,
Iran knocking at the door,
afghan doing the hari kari,
And CFK doing the tango with the loony four,
And this is what we cal the future of our world,
Shit, no wonder the bloody aliens stay away,
Would you come down and say hello ???????
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Dumb Fucker Score - 10
You should have advertised in the Papua NG Daily Tribe, don't you think? Only sane lot amongst them, don't you think?
Beacons? Do I seriously need to post the news today coming out of Europe?
You do realize NO ONE wants to migrate to Europe or the USA anymore right? Migration from Europe has REVERSED from South America. And there is virtually no one going to the USA. In fact is it so bad even the Mexicans have stopped going, first time in 40 years.
Quondam beacons, perhaps even not long ago. Now... those decades of debt have caught with you. The can is against the corner.
10 out 10 again! FXXKing Hell.
Argentina and most of the rest of South America is at least 200 years behind the west. Within a few years you will be declaring war on each other. Fighting over land. It's odd on that there will be another dictator is the pink house and other countries on that continent. Did you listen to your President? Totally outclassed by the FI speakers. A Fucking Pikey who couldn't string one coherent statement together.
Reference (page 5) C-24 Draft Agenda:
www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/AC.109/2012/L.2
Who are you? A gadfly? Don't make me swat my hand (of God).
Argentina is 200 years ahead of the West simply because it never had the atrocious history of warfare the West has had. Instead of talking out of your butt, why not talk from your other butt?
Why don't you post scholarly evidence to suggest “South America” will be going to war in a few years? Argentina at least won't, all our land borders are settled (one of a handful of countries in the world, compare the rest of South and North America and Europe which still have bureaucracies brimming with litigious border squabbles).
Can you string a sentence in French? Spanish? German? Portuguese? Does the inability to do so make you an imbecile? (or just a moron, going by the IQ chart)
Seriously, they should make a DVD of that committee.
They are so in love with the Afgans and Iranians and I cannot wait until they move in. They have a skill for growing poppies so they will be employable. Some of the 'Taliban' type who fxxking hate queers and other deviations that seem happen in that country. Hopefully they can blow up the Casa Rosada, something they like to do, is blow things up. Do the Argies have any other assets that they might wish to attack. Probably not.
Here is exhibit A of the “beacon” that is the West. Homophobia, borderline racism towards an ethnicity, crude stereotyping...
Par for the course.
Argentina is indeed a beacon of tolerance next to the likes of Falklands are British :)
And they helped free the Iraqi kurds from tyranny.
Those Argies, they love humanity.
Yes, now that your not “disappearing” them anymore!
What we don't tolerate in the west are Fat cream bun eaters with bad legs (because they're fat) that take $80'000'000 to fly around Argland with their gold throne.
Imagine Argentina creating a nation out of southern Ireland, Britain, and nothern France. Another one out of Denmark, western Poland and northern Germany. Another from Southern Germany, Swizerland, Italy and Albania; take Spain and plug it to Occitan and northern Morocco.
Even without such fantastical borders Europeans slaughtered each other for the initial 50 years of XX. Give credit to the Arabs, they've done much better given the circumstances forced upon them.
If you are Argentinian then you are almost certainly an ancestor of an immigrant from probably Spain, Italy or Germany and therefore your history is just as full of the red stuff.
You may think that you've got your borders sown up but others nearby might not have the same view of the world and you have a bit of a history in this arena. Just wait until another Galtieri or Pinochet comes along and they will. Realizing that he is living next to a load of cowardly pussies and wants to settle some old scores and that your country is run by some old Pikey.
The Taliban fxxking hate you gay boys. Live and let live is me.
Beacon of tolerance? Is this the longest period of democracy in Argentina's history? 29 years. Did you involve yourself in chucking pregnant women out of 'planes?
Yes, and maybe by the hand of God.
“Tyranny befell the Native La Pampa people because once upon a time a foreign power decided to carve out preposterous borders, and shoehorn facticious nationalities upon them.”
“Tyranny befell the Falklanders because once upon a time a foreign power decided to carve out preposterous borders, and shoehorn facticious nationalities upon them.”
You're so right!!!
@117 P.S. Being racist is referring to someone's land as 'our Latin america' when people you're talking about are not latinos, nor are they spanish speakers.
But then he fled the Islands having worked for your military police giving them names of islanders likley to be against them.
Your Govt has trotted him out at the C24 for years!!!! Once he even had his brother there who was an elected councillor on our side - i believe the 2 shook hands as one would expect.
Shame on that aloof infatuated bitch you have as President who preaches peace and reconcilliation - but refused to accept a letter from a group of young Islanders - young Argentines according to her speech!
“Argentine Foreign Affairs ministry resists the idea because ”you can't take to the ICJ a case over which you consider to have full rights“.”
- that is exactly the case one would take to the ICJ, a dead cert to be won - so why don't they show the world they have justice on their side?
Because Argentine president Domingo F. Sarmiento acknowledged in 1869 that Argentina the islands were not Argentine?
- thus making it a dead cert looser case.
(From the 2007 article “Former Islander running for mayor in Cordoba village” en.mercopress.com/2007/01/29/former-islander-running-for-mayor-in-cordoba-village )
The reason why the UPotRP garrison did not fight Onslow and co was because they refuse d to fight their British brethren!!! If this is true it just gets better and better anfd the RGs case more and more ridiculous!!!! LOL
Her mind is a scrambled mess. Maybe it's the medication or maybe her mind was distracted by the thought of all that shopping. I think we got a glimpse of a typical meeting with CFKC which explains the random nature of policy making in Argentina.
“Argentina is 200 years ahead of the West simply because it never had the atrocious history of warfare the West has had.”
Troll, yes, but truth_telling?
Get a grip on Argentine history.
Interspersed by at least 7 civil and military dictatorships Argentina has enjoyed:
una larga serie de sangrientas guerras civiles entre facciones y provincias (1820-1861)
Guerra con el Imperio del Brasil (1825-1828)
la Guerra de la Triple Alianza 1865-1872
Guierilla- and dirty war 1973-1983
la Guerra de las Malvinas 1982
All of them no doubt very peaceful bloody wars and dictatorships.
An academic would suggest she cannot construct a reasonable argument, but who cares when you're in front of the world's most ridiculous committee.
@126 I read something similar, based upon British mercenaries making up a considerable portion of the Argentine and Chilean navy's at the time. There are many occasions where they have refused to fire on fellow British.
Their history is a lie, they cannot even perform simple academic analysis of what is clearly outstanding historical fact refuting most of their comments.
Instead they have the words of a bitter traitor, a mills and boon author who clearly is upset that his family didn't get to steal the islands making him rich, and some ranting harridan.
I'm not listening to Argentines any more, they just tell lies.
Her speech was just utterly rambling nonsense. It was only saved by her personal rent-a-crowd, that she cannot go anywhere without clapping, furiously in a confused manner at the end. Then the Ecuadorian chairman said how proud he was that she could take lots of other people's land.
Completely undignified... but what do you expect from the UN.
Won again the squatters malvinensis..
uk is FINISHED,morally and economically!
www.facebook.com/Britain1592
who nothing for freedom , or democracy,
but will be the first to cry, when this all goes bang,
the leaders will leg it, with the millions, and the poor will suffer, and the deluded indocrinoughts, will just look even more stupid, than they do now .
If a real glutton for punishment you can get on the casa rosada site and hear her banging on in what passes for spanish in RG land ... but its pretty nasty....
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