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UK dilemma with Malcorra at the UN, “a candidate favoured by Washington”
Britain is facing a diplomatic dilemma since it seems quite clear that the US administration of Barack Obama favours the Argentine candidate and current foreign affairs minister Susana Malcorra as the next UN Secretary General, according to an article published on the Sunday edition of The Telegraph and written by Peter Foster, Europe editor and Harriet Alexander, New York editor. Read full article
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Jun 06th, 2016 - 08:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Dear Susana,
Jun 06th, 2016 - 08:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0Usurpation!
UN Resolutions!!
https://www.academia.edu/21721198/Falklands_1833_Usurpation_and_UN_Resolutions
Sorry to spoil your day...
Far be it for me to cast doubt on an article my Peter Foster in the Telegraph but am not absolutely sure that the UN has ever demanded that the Falkland Islands be handed over to Argentina.
Jun 06th, 2016 - 09:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0In any event UK must use its veto to stop this Obama proposal.
Will be good to see the back of the worst President in US history.
Fecal Incontinence is treatable, don't be embarrassed, just get your mother to change your nappy, there's a good boy.
Jun 06th, 2016 - 09:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0Far be it for me to cast doubt on an article my Peter Foster in the Telegraph but am not absolutely sure that the UN has ever demanded that the Falkland Islands be handed over to Argentina.
Jun 06th, 2016 - 09:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0In any event UK must use its veto to stop this Obama proposal.
Will be good to see the back of the worst President in US history.
I didn't know of a leaning tower of Westminster but must be true as photos don't lie unlike Argies. If the midget Malcorra ( should call her “Mal suerte ” ) does become Secretary General then we will truly see her true colours as regards the Falklands. Personally do not think the question of “ self determination ” will change though.
Jun 06th, 2016 - 10:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0@1. Not surprised. Told you the other day it oozed out of your every orifice.
Jun 06th, 2016 - 10:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0@3, 5. Peter Foster is the U.S. bureau chief for the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph. He previously spent time as a correspondent in Beijing and the Indian Sub-Continent. Does this tell you anything? If you want to prosper as a correspondent better not to be particularly incisive. Also likely, when immersed in other cultures, to see their “point”. And then to go to the United States? Might be a plum for a journalist, but who staffs the “bureau”? Americans? Unfortunately, the U.S. doesn't see any issue as really relevant unless one or more Americans are involved. Despite the WW2 partnership, we British are not best served, with reference to the Falklands. In my experience, few Americans read more than their local newspapers. I recall visiting a friend there for several weeks and was amazed at the 3 inch thick pile of newspapers and magazines that arrived regularly. There's no real interest in international news. So cultural “values” persist. So Americans might well see a similarity in argieland trying to wrest the Falklands from Britain and their own time of declaring independence.
It would be far better to emphasise the fate of American fishing and sealing boats, and their crews, when argentina was making its first attempts at imperialist colonialism. Also mention the despatch of the USS Lexington to root out argie pirates. We might mention that, although the US took part in both world wars, argieland didn't. It just sat on the sidelines. We might mention the similarities between the argie sneak attack on the Falklands and the similar Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Someone might take the time to research what argieland actually did during its recent temporary seat on the Security Council. Presumably Kirchner and her cohorts couldn't find any opportunities for grandstanding!
Ģeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.......
Jun 06th, 2016 - 11:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0This article is just typical MercoPres wind up...
Ms. Malcorra has virtually NO CHANCE to become elected for this post...
@ 8 Lunatic
Jun 06th, 2016 - 11:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0LUNATIC! What's wrong, this is the very first time I have agreed with one of your posts?
I know I am becoming Uruguayo, but argie, heaven forbid (from an atheist).
Anyway.
The Malevolent Midget will hopefully see the error of her ways if she reviewed her time of the idiot Ban Ki-moons CofS.
If not, and if Camoron is still in power (seemingly another long shot) will he have the guts to VETO her. NFC.
VOTE LEAVE.
Remember the Security Council permanent members have a Veto.
Jun 06th, 2016 - 11:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0Last time round China told everyone they would veto everyone who wasn't from Asia.
So with the precedent set: Simple solution...
US can Veto the Bulgarian candidate
and we can veto the Argy.
@ 8 Think
Jun 06th, 2016 - 12:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Unbelievable, for once we agree, no chance even before the inevitable veto would come into play.
Thank God the UNSC has five (5) vetoes. Ms 'Malacorra' has little or no chances of “swimming” there.
Jun 06th, 2016 - 12:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Philippe
If anything, it's a Sunday Telegraph wind up.
Jun 06th, 2016 - 12:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This situation has been blown-up out of all proportion and, in any case, knowing what Argentina's views were on the Falklands long before Ms Malcorra's so-called questionable appointment to the UN. What would have been disconcerting is if the opposite representation had taken place . Most of this “news” is cobblers.
Jun 06th, 2016 - 01:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”which both Argentina and the UN say must be “decolonised” and returned to Argentina”. Just when has the UN declared this?
Jun 06th, 2016 - 03:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@15 MALVINERO SUPREMО's UN C24 Committee
Jun 06th, 2016 - 03:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But :- The Decolonisation Committee is a subsidiary body of the United Nations General Assembly, it has NO decision-making powers. Any resolutions that it passes have no legal significance and are irrelevant unless they are endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly.
It is funny to see British commentators write about this issue as if they were independent and had any say in this matter. Sadly, the UK's decision is tied to whatever is decided in Washington, so there will be no veto if so is decided at the White House. You can't fight the US and pretend to vote for a Brexit at the same time.
Jun 06th, 2016 - 05:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@17 MatGz
Jun 06th, 2016 - 06:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Watch this space, the BREXIT is probably going to happen, the veto, in the very unlikely event it ever gets that far, will certainly happen.
You heard it here first.
#1 CHICKEN SUPREMO “Comment removed by the editor.” Is the nicest thing you have ever said here...
Jun 06th, 2016 - 06:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0JAJAJAJAJAJAJA
Ms. Malcorra has virtually NO CHANCE to become elected for this post...
Jun 06th, 2016 - 07:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0besides she has conflicting interests,
so I agree she has no chance.
@17 MatGz
Jun 06th, 2016 - 09:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't you know Britain is ruled by Europe these days? Washington being in charge is so last decade.
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Jun 06th, 2016 - 10:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I shit in my pants.
So she knows the truth about UN law, but still believes in Argentina's native cunning to attempt theft by deception and lies. To avoid the wars she will stir up, VETO must be used.
Jun 06th, 2016 - 10:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0*shrugs* When all is said and done, the principle of regional rotation is well-established and it's Europe's turn.
Jun 07th, 2016 - 03:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Not quite sure if Malcorra is seriously expecting to win or if she is putting down a marker for two terms down the line, when it will be the turn of Latin America & the Caribbean again. She probably needs to consider that putting down a marker last time round doesn't seem to have done the Latvian president any favours.
@17. You have some very strange ideas. As if Washington “rules” the UK. The truth is that the UK and the US have a lot of cultural values in common. Values that Europe doesn't share. For example, there a places in Europe where, if accused of an offence, you are guilty until proven innocent. Unfortunately, some European “values” are creeping into the UK. Remember Amanda Knox? Tried by the Italian media and Italian public opinion. Time was when speculating about the guilt or innocence or on the evidence would have been contempt of court in the UK. So it's not surprising is the UK and US often see things the same way. But there are exceptions. In 1955, the US wanted the UK to go with it to Vietnam. Just as the US usually wants to be accompanied by the UK. You don't find the US pulling out all the stops to get the French, Germans or Italians to go with it. So the UK declined and we didn't go to Vietnam. Equally, the UK often proffers exceptionally good advice. For instance, in 1942, the UK kept advising the US to have its merchant vessels sail in convoy. It also recommended blackouts for coastal towns and cities. These ideas were rejected by US Admiral Ernest King. As a direct result, hundreds of American ships were sunk. Operation Torch was another fateful American cock-up. Britain had already won the North African campaign. Torch was seen as a means of “blooding” untested and largely poorly trained Americans who were gung-ho to get at the Germans. It led directly to the American massacre at the Kasserine Pass.
Jun 07th, 2016 - 02:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Guess what? We can do whatever we want. Much like the Americans tried to smooth things over in '82. Didn't work, did it?
@22. You have made an ERROR. The word “am” should go between “I” and “shit”.
@22 Chicken Supreme
Jun 08th, 2016 - 12:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“I shit in my pants.”
Try googling, toilet, lavatory or WC.
It'll save you having your washing machine on permanently.
It is sad but in all fairness she must be vetoed and that is it.
Jun 08th, 2016 - 07:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We can't take the risk of having the UN Secretary General against the UK.
Francisco had no problem in breaching protocol agreements and getting involved in the Falklands dispute asking for dialogue without the Islanders backing Cristina!
What Francisco did was against the agreement of the Holy See and the Crown. We can't afford to have another one.
Francisco is a peronist first and foremost, and Malcorra has also been indoctrinated and will push Argentina's lies because that is what they taught her to believe in.
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