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Falklands' defense expenditure increase' will be taken before the UN, says Argentina

Thursday, March 26th 2015 - 07:48 UTC
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Argentina will take the United Kingdom before the United Nations Decolonization Committee following London's announcement it was increasing expenditure on the Falkland Islands defense, said Foreign minister Hector Timerman on Wednesday. Read full article

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  • Redrow

    Take it to your impotent cronies on the C24 if you wish, but it's the ICJ that could theoretically help you - should you ever actually have a case of course.

    I wonder did the C24 take up the FIGs kind offer for them to come and visit the Falklands to see how they could help the islanders achieve, or even just confirm, their decolonisation? Or do the C24 just prefer to meet with each other year after year, wasting time and resources - condemning the people who pay their dinner and hotel bills while obstructing and being condescending to the very people they are supposed to being helping? It's suprising that they aren't more embarassed about this.

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 08:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Martin Woodhead

    The UK is continually in a state of war take note and remember that for all your jingonistic actions. The veiled threats the new note the plastic dolly you worship the buying s/h bombers.
    Cool and unsympathetic minds across the sea have taken note and drawn up their plans.

    ,

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 08:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Jo Bloggs

    Timmerman

    Not that it will do you any good but while you're at the C24 do make sure you explain to them why your government cronies took the time to explain that the new battle ships you plan to get from China will be called 'Malvinas Class' and that the bombers you hope to get from Russia will have a range capable of reaching Stanley.

    The whole world knows you gutless wonders would be in here the day after the Mt Pleasant garrison packed up. Just like 1982 when you thought you'd overrun the islands and nobody would come to do anything about it.

    If you had any real claim you know you'd take it to the ICJ.

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 09:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CKurze30k

    They can take the UK before the C24 if they wish. I'd like to see the UK representative offer ICJ arbitration at that meeting and watch Timerman squirm.

    Argentina has refused ICJ arbitration precisely because they have no legal, historical or moral case for their claims over British territory.

    The legitimate inhabitants of the Falkland Islands voted on their future not too long ago, in free and fair elections. As such, they have achieved self-determination and decolonisation. The C24 is an inappropriate venue for complaints about Britain excercising its right to defend it's sovereign territory.

    “...insists that the UK must comply with the forty UN resolutions and sit to talk about the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty...“

    And so we did. The UN resolutions require that the interests of the legitimate inhabitants of the Falkland Islands be taken into account. We did this in the fairest way possible, by having members of the Islanders represent their interests.

    Argentina's ambassador refused to even be in the same room as those representatives. It is fair and truthful to say that *Argentina* is the one refusing to abide by UN resolutions, not us.

    Argentina also refuses to negotiate in good faith. Their constitution was rewritten to push their fake claim to the Falklands, and insist that any ”negotiation” end with them taking the sovereignty they've tried and failed to usurp twice already.

    These measures ensure that a reasonable settlement cannot be negotiated.

    There are only two outcomes that are fair for all sides in the dispute:

    1 - Argentina accepts ICJ arbitration and attempts to prove its case. They'll lose, but at least it's taken to the appropriate venue.

    2 - Argentina drops all of their claims, acknowledges the undisputable truth that they've lied all along, and apologises to all of the UN for wasting their time. That would take a modicum of honour and honesty their politicians lack.

    It's their choice.

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 09:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    Bwahahahahahaha!

    This is so funny. The Argentine Govt is all in a tizzy about this. Watch them spin and splutter!
    Lol!
    They scream and shout, then stamp their little feet.
    Yet to no avail.
    No-one cares about them and their toddler temper tantrums .

    Meanwhile Great Britain quietly and determinedly carries on with exactly what they were going to do anyway.

    Argentina isn't going to be “taking anyone to the UN” , they couldn't take choripan out of a bag without support.
    Laughable!

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 09:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Lord Ton

    The UN? Wow?

    :-)

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 10:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    Warning!!...Double negative alert...
    “Argentina has no interest in being involved in an armed conflict” with nobody”

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 10:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Rufus

    @1 Redrow
    “I wonder did the C24 take up the FIGs kind offer for them to come and visit the Falklands to see how they could help the islanders achieve, or even just confirm, their decolonisation?”

    I think it was on their schedule of things to do, right after attending the opening of the first ice skate store in hell.

    What I'm wondering is how long it's going to be before the NSGTs get together and loudly and publicly have a vote of no-confidence in the C24...

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 10:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    I thought that the picture of Anibal Fernandez looked like Hitler's younger brother.

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 10:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Room101

    Get an answer from the question “Why?” and the motive is obtained: Why does Argentina want bombers and other fighter aircraft?
    Who do they perceive as a potential enemy?

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 10:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Buzzsaw

    Just out of curiosity, can Argentina force the UK before the C24, i don't think they can, or is this for internal consumption. Are they hoping that the great unwashed are gullible in thinking that they are forcing a resolution from the UN. The C24 is bound to side with Argentina's flawed logic as it is the old boys SA club, will this be put forward to the voting public as a great victory at the UN.

    The embarrassment for Argentina is that for all their bravado, bluster and talk about new Malvinas Class Ships, fighter/bombers that can reach Stanley, they are just that empty words and threats, when someone reacts to it, they don't like it.

    Typical bully boys tactics from the Arg Government always the first to cry when confronted.

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 10:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Falkland Islands

    why are they hell bent on trying to get us to reduce military all the while Argentina is expanding theirs, we are not stupid!

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 10:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Britworker

    It reminds me of their attitude towards the Belgrano . Starting a war, sending their ships into battle and then 'shock horror', we sink it.

    They seem to think that they can go ahead and upgrade their military and we will just sit back and think nothing of it.

    They should be very concerned about the new air defence system, the FLAADS, a land-based air defence system. The missiles from the system would be able to travel at 1,000 metres per second and defend against threats, including jets or cruise missiles travelling at supersonic speeds.

    I suppose they will react the same way as the Belgrano when they send their new shiny jets to attack the Falklands and they end up in the sea on the edge of the EEC.

    The Falkland Islanders can go to bed a night under attack and wake up in the morning after a sound sleep to the great news that their air defence system has wiped out Argentina's entire air force

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2911169/Ministry-Defence-orders-228m-super-missiles-protect-Falklands-Argentina-strengthens-air-force.html#ixzz3VUCmEEnf
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    Mar 26th, 2015 - 10:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Jmackiej

    The UN C24 is a standing joke.... bahahahaha. They are full of old Spanish colonialists trying to grap territory and squabbling amongst each other.
    They are collectively responsible as nations for the mas genocide of the South American indians through torture, poisoning, death camps, and forced labour.

    Waste your time Timmerman and make yourself look like a joke. At least we dont buy off Iranian terrorism.

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 10:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    This is really childish and provocative on democracy,

    its abt time the British held its breath and told Foreign minister Hector Timerman to get lost and remove these territories from the C24, its certainly not helping our cause, and just gives the stupid argies something to use as ammunition.
    just my opinion.

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 11:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    “over the next ten years £180 million will be allocated to improve and modernize infrastructure, including military accommodation upgrades and a new primary school.”

    We are building a new SCHOOL!

    That's what all the fuss is about: all the children of will learn the TRUTH about their psychotic neighbours and the intentions they have had since 1982 towards throwing them off the islands “AND ALL DONE IN THE BEST POSSIBLE TASTE!” © Kenny Everett – long live his memory.

    The argies are witless if they think all their sabre rattling is going un-noticed.

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 11:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Islander1

    Think0 Axel- Marcos- Paul- Voice - anyone over there?

    Please can you tell Twitman he needs to learn to COUNT- basic maths- UK is NOT increasing spending on military in the Falklands - all they are doing is saying what bits of kit and buildings they are REPLACING as they are old and getting out of date!!
    We used to have Chinooks- they were taken to use in Afghanistan - now they are being returned to the islands!
    Yes there is a new bigger school for the kids of the military families being built A SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!
    No come on Paul- even you can see that a School is not an atomic missile!!!

    We look forward to yet another event where Argentina is laughed at by the world- and the world,s press and media fall over laughing at them.

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 11:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • LEPRecon

    @17 Islander1

    Maybe the UK should buy a CT scanner for the Falklands as well as building a new school, as I know concern about the supposed 'lack' of these 2 things keep paulcedron awake at night.

    All Argentina will do is humiliate itself AGAIN before the whole world. But as we know all of these 'bluster' is for domestic Argentine consumption so people like Think-Axel-Marcos-Paul-Voice actually believe that there is 'movement' on their spurious attempts to steal the islands, when everyone with half a brain knows that Argentina that only 'movement' is them slipping backwards in their 'claims;

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 11:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    17
    Count...?
    That would be, basic ARITHMETIC...seems you do need a new primary school...

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 11:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    Ahh! A school!
    Now I get it.

    All dictatorships fear truth and education.

    Missive from the Pink House.
    “The UK is educating the South Atlantic. They must be stopped. Argentine children could be next. They might learn the truth !! Aaaaaarrrrrrrggģgggghhhhhhhh! ”

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 11:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    nit picking,

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 11:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • knarfw

    All this over 2 helicopters, some new carpets in the barracks blocks and a kid's school?

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 11:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    Argentina should give us back all that money we give them,

    bunch of bananas could run their country better.

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 11:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    @22
    Yep!

    But what larks to see the Argentine Government get its knickers in a twist about it all.
    :-) ))))

    Imagine if the UK seriously militarised the South Atlantic, you know built a Camp Bastion style fortress and installed some missile silos?
    Just imagine. Those are Argentines would die of apoplexy !
    :0

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 11:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    they would probably have a national day of crying.

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 11:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • knarfw

    Even the chinooks are just replacements for the sea kings that are being retired across the RAF. They are a tad larger mind.

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 11:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Ramon

    So if Argentina buys fighter jets from China, then that's OK, but if the Falkland Islands reacts with increased defence expenditure, then ......

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 11:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    17/24
    Atomic missiles...missile silos...?
    Inform yourselves...the UK has no land based delivery system for Nukes and hasn't for decades....
    arff...

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 11:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • dsullivanboston

    Argentina wastes their energy bullying a small group of people living in peace. It is part of the reason why Arg is in steep decline and currently the 4th largest economy in SA and falling.

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 11:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    Won't someone please tell these Kidiots that nobody listens to the UN.

    Gads give it a rest.

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 12:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • lsolde

    They are a joke, but it is starting to wear thin.
    Time to get real with the macho-idiots.
    Time for Total-war(if necessary).

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 12:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • LEPRecon

    @28 Voice

    Well according to your deluded government the Falklands are already a base for nuclear weapons.

    Of course the UK doesn't need to park nuclear weapons off Argentina's shores. If we truly wanted to make Buenos Aires 'glow in the dark' we could just as easily do it from Scotland than from the Falklands.

    Aren't you embarrassed that your government will be taking this non-issue, to an impotent 4th rate committee of the UN?

    Not that it matters who they go to at the UN, whether it be the Security Council, General Assembly or the International Court of Justice, because NONE of these bodies have the right to interfere in the internal sovereign matter of defence or economics.

    So the usual will happen. Argentina's 'lackeys' will make a few soothing noises, Argentina will come out with a stupid 'the whole world supports us' statement, and the British will build the school and modernise its defences.

    And Argentina will still be as ignored and as impotent as ever.

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 12:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    32
    “Well according to your deluded government the Falklands are already a base for nuclear weapons.”
    Wow I didn't realise the Scottish Gov. had an opinion on the Falklands...
    You live and learn...

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 12:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    Has anyone ever taken the time to diagram out when which Sistah is supposed to post?
    If its a Falklands issue its____ posting
    Arg Gov't issue its _________posting
    If one of them needs support on arguments the call on_______

    and so on.

    I'd be really curious and it would be fun to start predicting whom will be resurrected on which thread.

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 01:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Alberto Bertorelli

    Que?

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 01:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    34
    As all your predictions are always wrong...it won't be you...

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 01:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    I look at this board on my phone and if I slide over and cover the names most of the time I find it impossible to tell the Sistah apart other than the topic they are brought out to post.
    I'm sure I'm not the only one.

    I predicted the Scottish Independence vote would fail. Oh wait so did you at Midnight on the night of the vote.
    I predicted NML would win the appeals
    I predicted the Auto industry would fail
    I predicted Soy sales in 2015 would be abysmal ( just wait)
    I predicted a deep recession last year
    I could go on and on

    Silly fool.

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 01:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    You missed Singer & Co. intercepting Gas Tankers in International waters....How's that one coming along...?
    Oh and the sun will rise....

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 01:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    I think you often mistake my wishes with my predictions.

    I think you often have trouble wth what most people consider reality.

    Maybe it would be easiest if you diagrammed out the persona posting methodology.
    Come on give it a try

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 01:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Voice

    No... I think you call your wishes... predictions...

    why don't you give it a try...and we'll see how wrong you are...
    Step up, the platform is yours...

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 01:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    I predict a HUGE balance of payments problem in 2016.
    How's that.
    Mark it down.
    Remember I told you first

    BTW Arg is required to give a list of State assets to Griesa shortly. After that they will be able to start to seize them.

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 01:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    “Well according to your deluded government the Falklands are already a base for nuclear weapons

    Documentation please,

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 01:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    You know I was just remembering the chats I has on here predicting ( yes V predicting) that the Auto export business would fail.
    And I was the ONLY one on here saying that, arguing back and forth with the Kidiots that Brazil would always buy yadda yadda yadda

    Maybe if you listened to me you could afford to move out of the redneck areas you love so much.
    Although I doubt you'd ever be accepted in polite society.

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 02:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Zool

    “UK must comply with the forty UN resolutions and sit to talk about the Falklands”

    Sorry Timmerfool but their are no UN resolutions whatsoever requiring anything of the sort nor does the UN have any mandate or power over military defense & Britain is only replacing old equipment with it's modern equivalent however your plans to equip Argentina with new war ships, new long range missile systems & long range bombers seems to indicate your desire to once again revert to military aggression.

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 02:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Terence Hill

    “must comply”? “there is no obligation in general international law to settle disputes”.Principles of Public International Law, third edition, 1979 by Professor Ian Brownlie
    UN Charter
    7. Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state or shall require the Members to submit such matters to settlement under the present Charter; but this principle shall not prejudice the application of enforcement measures under Chapter VII.

    United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2131(XX). Declaration on the Inadmissibility of Intervention in the Domestic Affairs of States and the Protection of Their Independence and Sovereignty
    Ref.: 2225(XXI) The General Assembly,
    Deeply... ...without distinction of any kind,
    Reaffirming the principle of non-intervention, proclaimed in the charters of the Organization of American States, the League of Arab States and the Organization of African Unity and affirmed at the conferences held at Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Chapultepec and Bogot , as well as in the decisions of the Asian-African Conference at Bandung, the First Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries at Belgrade, in the Programme for Peace and International Cooperation adopted at the end of the Second Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries at Cairo, and in the declaration on subversion adopted at Accra by the Heads of State and Government of the African States,
    Recognizing that full observance of the principle of the non-intervention of States in the internal and external affairs of other States is essential to the fulfilment of the purposes and principles of the United Nations,...
    ...Mindful that violation of the principle of non-intervention poses a threat to the independence, freedom and normal political, economic, social and cultural development of countries, particularly those which have freed themselves fr

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 02:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • BOTINHO

    Looking at the expressions in the photos, the announcement certainly got under the skin of Srs. Timmerman and Fernandez.

    Our hot-head neighbours to the South again. Better not to think about it and just get a bucket of ice-water so two heads ( one bald, one grey ) don't catch on fire.

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 03:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    @31. Do you know, I think you have a good idea. I'll write to my MP, who happens to be a Secretary of State, and map out a live fire exercise. Let's see now. Completely mobilise the British Army, Royal Air Force, Royal Marines and Royal Navy. Practice obliteration of Buenos Aires. Do you think we could have several tries?
    @32. Of course there are nuclear warheads on the Falkland Islands. What are we? Stupid? Think about how we suddenly reduced the number of warheads. What did we do with them? These things are expensive. So we ship them off to where nobody would think to look. More on this subject. Remember how the argies complained that British warships sailed into the South Atlantic in 1982 with nuclear weapons aboard? They were off-loaded. Where? Which British warships could use them? Shells with nuclear warheads? Nuclear depth bombs. Nuclear sea mines?

    Important words for argies to bear in mind. 'Deterrent' and 'threat'. If argieland starts something, will it find that the Falkland Islands are surrounded by remote-controlled nuclear minefields? Will its submarine be destroyed by a nuclear depth bomb? What British military equipment can fire nuclear shells? Can a nuclear warhead to be fitted to a CAMM(A) type surface to air missile? Imagine an anti-aircraft missile that can destroy every aircraft within 50 miles of the detonation point.
    @34. Are you bored? Think of today as Shoot-a-Slug day. SS day for short.
    @44. Quite right. Wonder why argies have trouble with the knowledge that ALL General Assembly resolutions are NON-BINDING. Therefore there isn't ONE single resolution that the UK has to comply with. Isn't Security Council resolution 502 still extant? Requiring argies to get off the Islands.
    @46. Ice-water? I understand that a swan dive into the Rio de la Plata from 5,000 feet has quite an effect.

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 03:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CKurze30k

    Serious question for the adherents to the Malvinas Lie:

    You insist that we have “usurped” your territory, and that the legitimate inhabitants of the Falklands are in fact “squatters”. Both you and I know neither of those claims are true, but for the sake of the question, let's pretend they are.

    In that case, you'd be able to prove your claim of sovereignty. The *only* place that can arbitrate on matters of sovereignty is the ICJ, not the C24.

    If you are so sure of your claims, why have you never agreed to ICJ arbitration over this dispute? Heck, if you win, you could get what you've wanted before the year is up.

    Why continue insisting on bad-faith negotiations when you can resolve this far more quickly at the ICJ?

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 03:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    I personally think that the Argentine government has all the right to feel threatened by the UK funding improved educational facilities got the island inhabitants.

    After all, the more the next generation learns about just how corrupt and evil the Argentines are, the less the'll ever want to associate with the criminals...

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 05:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Englander

    The histrionics from Argentina demand that the UK Govt thinks again and sends more troops, backed up by more warplanes and more warships.
    Any invasion force from Argentina must be met with the maximum force possible using conventional weaponry.
    If that double negative was intended by Timmerman then he is a bigger fool than previously thought.

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 05:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Leiard

    We should fund a few educational cartoons like this one.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKkcTpCur7g

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 06:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • reality check

    Their entire country is a cartoon!

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 06:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    Tom And Jerry.

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 08:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    #51 Leiard

    As a Chilean, I completely agree that your video perfectly explaines the Argentine mentality and I HIGHLY recommend everyone to view it.

    Argentines live in a fantasy, childish delusion that their sacred “Malvinas” is a crusade to recover their national honor and God given right.

    The cartoon is EXACTLY why you can't reason with the deluded brainwashed idiots... Our solution in Chile is to be able to overwhelmingly kick their arse if they try attacking us and I think it's very prudent for the FIG and UK governments todo the same.

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKkcTpCur7g

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 08:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    51/54. Wow I hope that video isn't really for children! Its so sad to see how these horrible people are indoctrinated from birth,
    They have one of the most productive, rich and large land masses in the world and yet they are squandering but want more.
    Its so very sad.

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 08:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    Normal people, run by deluded asylum escapers...lol

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 08:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pete Bog

    ”insists that the UK must comply with the forty UN resolutions and sit to talk 2

    We offered.

    Islanders were to be present as they were at pre 1982 talks.(Ref: Frank's Report).

    You shat yourself and ran.

    Your problem Gollum.
    And on a flippant note, could Chris R please inform us, has Bogbrushes
    brush increased in size due to more bogs being cleaned?

    “On Wednesday Argentina's cabinet chief said that Britain’s decision to increase its military presence in the South Atlantic is an “inappropriate” move.”

    Ever heard the expression if you don't like being burned, don't put your fingers in the fire?

    Argyland: We'll arrange to lease Russian aircraft whose role is only to attack something .

    UK: We'll upgrade our ability to shoot down attacking aircraft.

    Argyland: NOT FAIR! Like it was unfair for you Gringos to boot us out in 1982, after all, our only crime was to attack you!

    “and countries such as the UK want “the subordination, submissiveness of others, ”

    Only when you invade us.

    “ or rather a mentality that accepts you must be a second category country”.

    The UK doesn't make Argentina a second category country, you manage to achieve that yourselves by having even worse politicians than the UK possesses, and the ability to create a clusterfuck better than the UK can.

    ”However Fallon said two Chinook helicopters would be recalled to the Falklands by the middle of next year”

    As there were in previous years-note Golum not four Chinooks, but two.

    I saw two Apaches pass over today-they should be deployed in the Falklands.

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 08:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Chicureo

    Pete

    May I kindly ask where yo saw the helos

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 09:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    56. You are mistaken. Argentinians are not “normal” by our standards. That's why there is so much miscommunication.
    The only thing they understand is violence.
    A nice logical debate in speaking voices won't get you anywhere with them

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 09:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    44 Zool and 45 Terence Hill

    “UK must comply with the forty UN resolutions and sit to talk about the Falklands”

    My Friends,

    I need not remind you that the UK HAS sat down and talked about the Falklands. It was in 2013 at the Foreign Office when Titman WAS in London, but not at that meeting 'cos members of the Falkland Islands Assembly were there as well, but there was an empty seat where titman was SUPPOSED to be.

    No, he was giving an interview to the BBC :-

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21341578

    ahhhhhhh yes!!! Argentine diplomacy at it's best!!!

    By all accounts, we have done what we were supposed to do. Nothing to see here!!! Move along, move along!!!!

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 10:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    @ 57 Pete Bog
    “And on a flippant note, could Chris R please inform us, has Bogbrushes
    brush increased in size due to more bogs being cleaned?”

    I'll have you know I take this very seriously and I constantly monitor the vertical size of the bristles on this magnificent excuse for a human being.

    Boss Eye has lost the crown to this swivel eyed idiot, that's for sure.

    :o)

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 10:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pugol-H

    Not the C24, oh please not that, ok ok we give in!!!!!!!

    Love the pop psychology on what the UK wants and thinks, truly awesome.

    A leader of a government being influenced by upcoming elections would never happen in Argentina.

    As for “cheap nationalism” and “society on the edge”, outstanding really out done himself there.

    Of course Argentina is not a threat, every single thing they have done and said in the last ten years proves that beyond any doubt. All sweetness and light.

    Someone over there is going to have a heart attack when they find out about the secret deployment of Tornadoes and Apaches.

    Mar 26th, 2015 - 10:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • downunder

    “Argentina will take the United Kingdom before the United Nations Decolonization Committee following London's announcement it was increasing expenditure on the Falkland Islands defense, said Foreign minister Hector Timerman on Wednesday.”

    So, once again Hector is off to the UN to whinge and whine and highlight Argentina’s powerlessness with regard to its colonial ambitions in the Falklands.

    How predictably pathetic, Argentina needs to realise that British defence expenditure is:
    a. None of its business,
    b. None of its business, and
    c. None of its business.

    And, by the way, a tin pot miserable little country like Argentina, doesn’t take the UK anywhere, they can make representations and complain as much as they like but that’s as far as it goes.

    Mar 27th, 2015 - 12:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    I personally enjoy the statement that, ” Argentina will take UK before the UN...'.
    Funniest thing I have read in a long time!

    Absolutely ridiculous to think that Argentina could possibly 'take' the UK anywhere it doesn't want to go. Especially comsidering that the UK is one of the PERMANENT members of the UN Security Council and Argentina, is well, to be polite, a mere, bit-player...
    Like Namibia, or Ecuador...
    haha! You are not even Spain or Italy....

    You think you can tell the UK what to do?
    This must have been for the domestic audience, but makes you look more stupid on the world stage,,,
    idiotas!
    Thanks for the lolZ!

    Mar 27th, 2015 - 02:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Anbar

    “”“Argentina will take the United Kingdom before the United Nations Decolonization Committee”“””

    ermm so Fcuk-ing what?

    Mar 27th, 2015 - 02:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    The UK is confident in its own power and status.
    Where as Argentina has to scurry off and start beseeching the UN.

    Which
    a) has no authority over sovereign defence expenditure
    b) doesn't really care about Argentina's repetitious bullshit complaints

    Mar 27th, 2015 - 11:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • gordo1

    1. Argentina has no business with the internal decisions made by the democratically elected British Government.

    2. Britain is quite to hold discussions with Argentina - but Argentina must agree to talk to the Falkland Islanders as part of these discussions. Sovereignty MUST never be an issue.

    Mar 27th, 2015 - 12:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    The UN don't help itself,

    it should post a great big note on its doors,

    Dear Argentina go away,
    or soddy offy,

    or even CFK not welcome.
    just a thought

    Mar 27th, 2015 - 01:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Philippe

    Because Argentina is a constant 'live threat' to the free Falkland Islands, the UK should submit a formal complaint to the UN Security Council.

    Philippe

    Mar 27th, 2015 - 07:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    Falklands' defence expenditure increase' will be taken before the UN, says Argentina

    Will they also complain abt the rise in military expenditure of?
    China, Russia, Germany, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and ISIS,

    Or is this just another typical Anti British rhetoric again.

    Britain should take Argentina to the UN for harrasment.

    oh and of course themselves, Argentina is also increasing its military..

    Mar 27th, 2015 - 08:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pete Bog

    @58 Chicureo

    Yes-over my farm in Staffordshire-and they were low!

    I also got two Hercs over, just over treetop height, but the bastards fly so low and fast I never have the chance to go in and get a camera in time!

    @59 Yankeeboy
    “A nice logical debate in speaking voices won't get you anywhere with them”

    Sad but true. The UK were reasonable (too soft) with the Junta pre-1982 when we tried to see their side and the reward was to be disrespected and initiate an illegal invasion.

    In fact, when Britain gave out a warning on 23rd march 1982 that any Argentine forces anywhere, interfering with our forces would be liable to attack, Galteiri, pissed on Scottish Whisky, laughed at the warning.
    He was not laughing when the Belgrano got hit (his/Alien- face Anaya's fault), and soon shit himself when he realised the UK was not bluffing but playing its ace cards.

    I note that despite being a serving Army General, Galteiri did not personally command the Falklands garrison, but stayed 1000 miles away getting pissed, while his men got hammered.

    The Argentines have not changed.

    They are happy pelting an unarmed TV crew with stones but they would shit themselves if Clarkson and Co had shot back with rifles.

    Same thing-Galteiri, fine when Argies were killing unarmed civilians but not quite so good when the Brits turned up to the party.

    Nothing has changed-same with Rivero in 1833/1834, same with Mestivier's men in 1832-1833. against unarmed civilians fine, but when lightly armed Brits turned up, time to get out the white flags.

    Mar 28th, 2015 - 04:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Usurping Pirate

    I think Argentina should take the Mapuches to the UN .
    According to “El Malvinense” they have declared war on Argentina , “usurped ” vast quantities of territories and run families off their land .
    http://www.elmalvinense.com/spolitic.htm

    Mar 28th, 2015 - 07:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    “We repudiate the war-mongering and militaristic attitude of the UK”

    There is SO MUCH that we repudiate in the general attitude of argentina, but we won't list it all here...........

    I haven't got enough characters, time or will.

    Mar 28th, 2015 - 08:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • PDG0192

    Where are all the malvinistas? They appear to be conspicuously absent in this discussion.

    Mar 29th, 2015 - 12:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • kelperabout

    What a laugh Argentina suggesting taken the Falklands and Britain to the UN given that they are also trying to rearm their forces. Surely it is a principle right to match potential force build up of any aggressive Country who's only intention is to steal another's home. Will be quite interesting to see the outcome of this latest plan.

    Mar 30th, 2015 - 11:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0

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