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Caruana and Bossano set to face Argentine hawk at UN

Jorge Arg?ello, the man who founded the “Malvinas Observatory”

He is one of the last people Gibraltar – less still the Falkland Islands – would have hoped to have seen nominated. Jorge Argüello, Permanent Representative of Argentina to the United Nations, is the new chairman of the Fourth Committee, the Special Political and Decolonization Committee. He is set to be addressed in a fortnight's time by both Chief Minister Peter Caruana and Opposition Leader Joe Bossano.

When in 2006, as deputy chairman of the Argentine Congress' foreign relations committee, Sr Argüello visited London to speak to the British-Argentine All-Party Parliamentary Group, Sr Argüello told British politicians that he and his colleagues were studying the terms of the then recent Gibraltar agreements under Cordoba – these have just celebrated their second anniversary. His appointment as a UN Ambassador in 2007 was accompanied by a statement locally from the GSLP/Liberal Alliance which warned that a tougher line was likely to be taken on the Falklands question. The Fourth Committee session is due in the first week of October and it is at this session that Britain and Spain draft a joint statement or, more often, simply reiterate the existing one, as is likely on this occasion, so as to avoid conflict and complicated discussions. By Dominique Searle – The Gibraltar Chronicle