Britain rejects US offer to help UK and Argentina resolve Falklands’ dispute

Tuesday, March 2nd 2010 - 19:53 UTC

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Downing Street has rejected an offer from the United States to help the UK and Argentina resolve their latest dispute over the Falkland Islands. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made the offer after renewed tensions were triggered with the beginning of a round of exploratory oil drilling in the Islands’ waters. Read full article

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Beef
Your move Argentina. Clinton was “not interested” the UN have offered an “office” and Brown has stuck the British two fingers up to you. You have no more cards to play with! Looks like the UK will be talking on it's terms if we could be bothered at all. I wouldn't fancy wasting time talking to the wall. Time to get on with the job at hand and find that oil and hopefully make a lot of shareholders and Islanders happy.
Mar 03rd, 2010 - 12:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Hoytred
Rhetoric without substance. How Argentina can claim some kind of diplomatic coup is beyond me. There will be no discussions regarding sovereignty as the islander's views remain paramount.
Mar 03rd, 2010 - 01:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Bubba
Spain and the EU say it is bilateral.. Time to face the fact that, barring another invasion, the islands are spoken for.. By the way, saying you have Hillary Clinton on your side is like saying the French are your allies..
Mar 03rd, 2010 - 02:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Nicholas
Good job Britain, tell that bitch of hillary to stay out and mind her own business.
Mar 03rd, 2010 - 02:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Bubba
When you control the media like Chavez and the K's, you can spin anything anyway you want and make a victory out of it.
Mar 03rd, 2010 - 02:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Bubba
Bubba, u are not well informed. You say “When you control the media like Chavez and the K's”, which is not true. No govenment in argentine history had its country press against it as nowadays. Probably 1% of the media in argentina is pro-K's. The other 99% are against them as they are just a couple of monopolies with different interests. Please if u are going to give an opinion get well informed and try not to be so ignorant. Otherwise this is just a bunch of people spiting wrong ideas of populism and nationalism without a good reason. It0s not a conditio sine quanon to be southamerican to have pupulist comments. As we can see here many brits (not all of them) are also not well informed of anything and comment as if it were a soccer match issue.
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