Ambassador Castro delivered credentials to Queen Elizabeth in ‘warm meeting’
Argentine Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Alicia Castro, delivered on Tuesday her credentials to Queen Elizabeth II in a meeting deemed as “warm,” that will help improve bilateral relations between both countries.
Castro, the first Argentine Ambassador in London in almost four years, told reporters that the meeting “was an opportunity to improve bilateral relations and understanding between both countries.”
The Ambassador also stressed the fact that the meeting was very warm and commented on the Queen’s sense of humour.
During the meeting, Castro said that it was an all-women ceremony, as her credentials were sent on behalf of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and the coach that took her to Buckingham Palace was driven by two women.
Castro also highlighted that Argentina is the Latin American country with the highest rate of British expats particularly the strong community of Welsh people living in the Patagonia.
Castro’s brief meeting with the Queen comes at a time when bilateral relations between both countries undergo a tense moment, particularly due to the Argentine claim over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty and the 30th anniversary of the South Atlantic archipelago dispute.
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Sweet!
The Queen does not need to be reminded about Britain's contribution to Argentina :
1811/17 : Argentine Navy created by British mercenaries
1820 : First country to recognize the Provincias Unidas de Buenos Aires
then :
Established beef /cereal/ sheep farming
Railways
Ports
Telegraph /Telephones/Gas/Electricity
Meat packing industry
The first underground outside the UK
The Bolsa ( Stockmarket )
Introduced football /rugby/cricket/polo/hockey/tennis
Timekeeping ( Hora inglesa )
Honesty ( Palabra de Ingles )
Till 1930 Argentina was virtually a British colony and the 7th richest country in the World.
1946 : Peron comes to power with an avowed anti British and anti American agenda .
1948 : He pays the British the equivalent today of U$S3Bn for the railways . Had he waited 2 years , they would have been handed over for nothing .
2012 : After 70 years of Peronism your flagship is held hostage by a 3rd rate African country because the country is too poor to pay the hedge fund that owns it .
Happy “17 de Octubre”.
Vivan los Ingleses .
BTW good news.
Argentina 2 Chile 1
Chile and Uruguay accepts Argentine pesos from tourist
Spain lifted the ban on Bio-diesel.
7D even closer
Viva Peron! ha ha
Nope, the Queen wore this colour as a mark of respect. That is the benefit of having an apolitical head of state...
They would be in real trouble if a member of the Royal family turned up to fly a Eurofighter.
@9
Quite possibly but as she keeps calling them the Malvinas the pilot would get lost and land somewhere else.
Libertad still stuck in Ghana
Most of Buenos Aires /La Pampa/Santa Fe flooded : No retenciones to live off next year , bio diesel or grain .
Inflation 30% and rising
Argentina's credit rating still the low
Still have to play Brazil , or will you switch the lights off again ?
Futbol para todos ? Futbol para nadie !
Please explain why she should have delivered her letter to the Prime Minister rather than the Head of State. You're wrong, but I'd still like to hear your explanation.
becouse
the virtual leader is Prime Minister not Queen in UK.
He does not have this power under our constitution
An Expatriate is someone who lives in a country they are not a citizen of! The Welsh Patagonian's are Argentine! They left Britain in 1865 and moved as far as possible away from the United Kingdom rejecting their British citizenship and eventually becoming Argentinian citizens!
It is not fair to count them in the Argentine British expatriate community when by their own decision they decided to move to Patagonia and become citizens of Argentina!
Ironically the Welsh Patagonian's want more links with Wales now...maybe they regret their decision now the Argentine economy is a basket case!
@8 What's your problem? The history of your cesspit started with two pirates. Jewett and Vernet. Aren't you proud?
@10 & 15 You are called “LightThink” because your non-existent brain weighs nothing?
Is there any country that takes Argentina seriously?
Every single one of your “contributions” is a provable lie, jajaja. You must be really desperate for some extoling gestures from Argentines. ]
Half of those “contributions” are very simply such a stretch that it's painful to read, how a lowly brit is trying to aggrandize his importance in argie history. Seriously... “English timekeeping”? Anyone ever heard of that? An then, ports, honesty? British contributions? Tell me who is the Brutish officially credited with inventing honesty and “ports”? Hahahahahaha.
And the other half of that list were indeed contributions, contributions of the Argentines to the British, since things such as railroads and the others were a simple matter of privates seeking profit, nothing bilateral about it.
We have an anti-American, anti-British agenda because we Latins can't stand you, the lying, murderours, hypocritical, and pervish people that you are, in Central America you are dispised as well. Why can't you just accept that and move along? Do I need to gouge your eye ball with my desert spoon to make you an example?
Oct 17th, 2012 - 01:35 pm
I am not sure Argentina takes Argentina seriously.
Whatever you Motel-Sheet skins say, you still writhe with frustration that no one in Latin America likes your kind.
Your last statement makes no sense because you cannot do that. Go back up your sa jungle tree and eat a banana. What tribe are you from elio?
Sure you work you Casper Pelt, we work to produce the coke and heroin that you gringoos sniff by the ton, then you work it out in your offices, killing some of the coworkers in the process, and then go to the bar get drunk go home eat Cheetohs, beat the wify, then do it all over again the next morning.
Enjoy your life Casper, we latins are laughing to the bank and you'd probably die from OD like all gringoos, and I'll still be making my cash and travelling the world, thank you AmeriKKa!
It is very very sad
and it will only get worse as the economy continues into its depression
“you still writhe with frustration that no one in Latin America likes your kind.”
No we don't. We laugh at Argentina because although you are a great county with great resources and potential, you spend more timem trying to steal other people's land tahn trying to run your own country competently therefore a tiny government (FIG) with 3000 people can run its country better than Argentina, though to be fair Chile and Brazil do OK.
It's not sniffy time yet. Oh and let me be the first one to let you know we've decided to jack up the price by 40%. I know you'll pay anyway... thanks for that, I needed another vacation. I love Santa Ana, El Salvador but Cozumel does beckon.
SuzzieUSA is impositor, stealing my identity.
Ingnore what this wimp says. I am never be rude about the Queen. I love her with her nice dresses and hats and tea parties. Maybe she could help Alicia with her wardrobe style next time.
Oh dear, I will probably go off my food and start suffering from insomnia, worrying about what he/she thinks about me.
Nah, serious though, what makes him/her think I give a flying fuck! about what he/she or anyone else thinks about me.
New identity Mr TTT?
@34
Hey Sussie! I can see you!
Funny these new nicks are only lasting a couple days now. He must be getting tired of keeping the stories straight.
I find it very odd Uruguay is selling their Embassy in BA, Argentina is their largest trading partner. Seems odd to downsize and sell the building. I wonder what they are seeing that we don't. Cutting ties one by one? FTA with USA? Hmm I wonder....
Hhhmmmm
You say British Prime Minister is nothing.
You,English have character problem.
Oct 17th, 2012 - 04:38 pm
I think that Pepe realizes that if he can flog the Uruguayan Embassy before the bottom finally falls out of the market, he can rent another place much cheaper than the upkeep on the building they've got!!!!!!!!
www.gregpalast.com/the-globalizer-who-came-in-from-the-cold/
I hope she told the queen to get the british illegal aliens out of Islas Malvinas Argentina and allow them back into UK as any good diplomat would.
I knew many of you had to be when I saw how lines of attack against Argentina suggested in comments would then appear “magically” as new stories in their own right. I even suggested such a story putting Argentina negatively once, and behold it then appeared later in the day!
hahahaha. I'm not saying it's bitter Brits but...
Mr TTT Why don't you just stick to the one name?
TTT has the rights to do anything he wants...
....why don't you learn to express your comments in english like he does?....
TTT english is very impresive....the best!
Viva TTT!
You really are sad aren't you? Don't bother answering that or replying in any way, your existence is a drain on my thinking time.
No one cares what Isolde= Conor= says....
or what the UK Team says...
The UK Team has made this mercopress web page = a Port-A-John = to dump crap.....
heheheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Just for the record, Argentina is now in third place. Uruguay's most important trading partners are Brazil and Venezuela, by quite a large margin. The less we depend on trade and tourism from Argentina, the better off we'll be. Even Venezuela is preferable as a trading partner, notwithstanding the distance and comedy-politics.
Oh! my....what? a bigger crap yet?
puuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuf
The UK team STINKS!
Either they are incredibly resourceful, or those other countries produce absolutely nothing necessary for humanity to survive.
do we spend money so this woman can buy this things???
perhaps it was hired.
Like the Argentine ship that a month ago threatened an unarmed civilan fishing boat in Falkland waters but ran away when the lightly armed Falkland Islands patrol vessel challenged it.
Peaceful? Pah!
She is the epitome of elegance in the face of Argentine crap.
That's just a lie I've been to Chile half a dozen times and got on famously with the people, also I've only met one that thought the islands should belong to Argentina.
“I hope she told the queen to get the british illegal aliens out of Islas Malvinas Argentina and allow them back into UK as any good diplomat would.”
And as a 'great' respector of human rights and indigenous populations, about 90% of Argentina will be repatriated to Europe leaving the Amerindians their rightful country-if Europe will have you back....
lol
Hey i agree i said skur da UK kueen 2
lol
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