Americas’ defense ministers’ summit rejects addressing Falklands’ issue
Argentina’s intention of having the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty issue included in the agenda of the Americas Defense ministers’ conference currently taking place in Uruguay was rejected, mainly because of the positions from the US, Canada and several Caribbean states.
The issue had been debated by an ad hoc committee during the weekend by South American countries on the initiative from Argentina with the purpose of creating “a peace zone in the South Atlantic”.
“These are formal issues but also make, somehow to the essence of the real issues” said laconically Uruguayan Deputy Defense minister Jorge Menendez and pro-tempore secretary of the Xth Ministers of Defense from the Americas Conference which is being held under strict security measures in the Atlantic seaside resort of Punta del Este.
Among the participants of the conference is US Secretary of Defense and former CIA chief Leon Panetta who agreed with Uruguayan authorities to upgrade a bilateral accord on defense cooperation dating back to 1953.
“The agreement will modernize the framework for a future cooperation in defense between the US and Uruguay” said the Pentagon spokesperson George Little following a meeting of Panetta with Uruguay’s defense minister Eleuterio Fernandez Huidobro.
“Uruguay is crucial partner of the US in defence affairs”, said Little.
At the opening ceremony Minister Fernandez Huidobro called for world peace and criticized the Inter-American defence system as outdated and belonging to another era.
“I belong to a generation that was born and grew up under the nuclear threat and current technology can destroy in seconds any vestige of life on the planet” said Fernandez Huidobro who added that the Inter American Defence Board created in 1942, the same year he was born, “is an old institution, as I’m old and was born at a time when very ugly things were happening in the world”.
But nowadays there are two worlds, “the rich and the poor, but these two spheres have left behind the old concept of prosperous north and underdeveloped south”.
“There is no longer a south versus a north, because in the south there is a north and in the north there is a south; no offence but we could think about the Bronx”, said the Uruguayan official.
The Uruguayan minister identified economic inequality “as the great problem underlying and over flying all the other problems and, all the military in the world are not going to be enough to solve it” because it is not, and can not be, a military problem”.
He questioned the global financial system as one of the greatest “trans-national delinquency organizations worse than those trafficking drugs, weapons, people, human organs, toxic residues and terrorism”.
“There is no better and greater product to which we must be committed than to peace, trans-national, national, hemispheric and world peace”.
Finally if Uruguay is the world’s main contributor per capita to peace missions “it is because there is war or has been…and huge military spending”, said the minister.
Besides Leon Panetta and Fernandez Huidobro, other ministers include Peter McKay from Canada; Guillermo Galván, Mexico; Brazil, Celso Amorim; Argentina, Arturo Puricelli; Chile, Andres Allmand; Ecuador, Rodrigo Carvajal; Juan Carlos Pinzón, Colombia; Pedro Cateriano, Peru; Maria Liz Garcia, Paraguay and Jean Rodolphe from Haiti. Venezuela sent a delegate but not with formal Defence representation.
The official agenda includes natural disasters, peace missions and hemispheric security.
The next conference is to be held in Peru, and the following in Jamaica. The previous defence ministers’ conference took place in Bolivia.
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You can’t tell other countries to demilitarise,and their land or the water around it,
Were would it end
Mexico demanding the USA de militarise the pacific and the gulf of Mexico and tell her to disarm,
Japan telling china, to disarm and demilitarise the south china seas.
We know, the UN telling Iran or Syria to demilitarise the middle east.
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Please CFK go home and re charge ya plastics the drips are showing….lol.
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I dont understand? The Malvinista trolls told me several times that the whole world was supporting their claim!
I feel i have been lied to :-((
Another year ! Will there be a Resolution ?? We'll know tomorrow maybe :-)
haha the world supports us , its a global issue jajajajajaja
Cristina: “so we have your support on the Malvinas?”
Clinton: “seriously, what drugs are you on?”
Argentina's government is seen as anachronism; curiously colonial.
That is why their claims are ignored except for some diplomatic platitudes that are intended to sooth a neighbour's quite unnecessary and often irritating noises. The Democratic approach.
CFK has thrown her rattle out of her pram, and although she keeps crying for it, no one will pick it up for her. There. there...
oh no....... FFS here we go again!!!!!
Hahaha.
Yeah, they have REAL issues to deal with. Unlike the falklands. Which is clearly just a formality to shut Argentina up.
If we say it, it must be true !!!!!
“Only sudamerica matter, the rest does not count, are also a threat!!!!!!”
One minute Argentina screams 'it's a global issue' then when they don't get the overwhelming gobal support they claim, they fall introspectively into an 'only South America counts' position.
No wonder other countries reciprocate by telling you 'we support your position over the Falklands' and then go on naval exercises including the UK.
Lol.
Argentina's economy is declining, inflation is rife, dollars are banned, foreign investment is declining and the state is snatching businesses from the private sector. It is a downward spiral and you are blinded by nationalism over some islands. Get a grip. But tell us all again how wonderfully positive Argentina's current and future positions are. Go on, I am listening.
1) She's had her flagship impounded for debt.
2) She was made to look an idiotic autocrat by students at Georgetown an Harvard.
3) She didn't get the FI question incorporated in the final statement in Colombia.
4) She didn't get the FI question incorporated in the final statement in Peru.
5) She didn't get the FI question incorporated in the final statement in Uruguay.
As one can see the taxes which we pay to our avaricous government are very well spent as far as foreign policy is concerned (just in case anyone needs a hint, I'm being sarcastic).
I have a dog whose name is Clarence
Each time he craps he loses his balance....
I would be entertained to see if you have a solution to that problem
That is what your President wants to do to us- COLONIALIZE us!!!!!
PS - dont forget- we have formally through your Embassy in London offerred to sit and talk with Buenos Aires across the table -- Why is there still No Answer from your President after several months now?
Who is being the Hipocrit in saying all she wants to do is sit and talk!!!!
She clearly does not want to!!!!
Welcome to 21rst century conflict management. Dysfunctional person A raises a stink by leaning on person F so as to get person U in a position to acknowledge and “validate” A because F would rather work with U because A is a jerk and A blames U because U is less of a jerk than A to work for.
A has been incessantly harassing F, often by passive aggressive means but once she went totally crazy and squatted F's cubicle for a week and when U came to help F when he came back in town from travel, she vandalized it rendering parts of his workspace unusable to this day. A blames U for happened and when confronted what she did says that she was on meds that week. However, no one is really buying it since she has pictures celebrating her little adventure on proud display in her desk and frequently says she wants to do it again but U is bullying her by doing nothing more than sticking up for F.
The people in A's section at the office know that to get any work out of A they have to pander to A and therefore have to pretend that A's beef with F and U is valid, not work with F, but enjoy a good working relationship with U so A takes it out on F more still.
Did I mention that A fancies herself as being in a workplace-protected classification (though jerks are not covered by anti-discrimination law) she cries harassment, sexism and racism whenever someone doesn't give her what she wants?
U agrees to talk with A but insists that F be at the table to make F's stance to A very very clear that F is sick of A and likes U better, but A screams “you just don't get it!”
(Guess who has had to deal with this sort of thing before :-0) Working at an all-girls middle school or a daycare center is better. But of course in the real world, you can fire A!
@20 You have more problems than that. You're effectively broke. Your currency is only good as toilet paper. You're queer. You're full of druggies, paedos, murderers. You're losers and cowards.
@30 Happy choice of letters. Do they stand for F**k U All? Or just F**k U argies?
No support for Argentina’s colonial ambitions outside SA, varying degrees of support from inside SA.
An important defeat for Argentinian diplomacy on this issue.
And the jealous ,,green with envy throws distraction to cover up their own mess.
You very badly need a remedy [fast]
May we suggest a new leader?
Hopefully a person who has something between its ear holes, and not its nose.??
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Is it Really THAT simple?
Here we have a man who knows stuff. KFC would do well to listen to him, listen and act on what he has got to say.
But, alas, I don't think that she will and it will be a case of another day, another humiliation.
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You've got to laugh though.......right?
It is difficult we have to play against great teams of our region and going to play in Estadio Malvinas Argentinas, ejem ejem, cof cof, of Mendoza
www.youtube.com/watch?v=foQUk80J0iw google if it doesnt appear
you translate as
losers play loser,
and the losers lose...
“Argentina colonial”
Yes Malen, and imperialist.
Adorable and now [ 3 SusanBoyle_loves(a)yankee (#) ]
She is envy with jealousy,
You can play in a “Malvinas” stadium anywhere in Argentina, or the moon if you so wish, but you will never get to play in the Falklands.
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