MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Chile supports Malvinas claim but underlines ‘special relation’ with the UK
Chadwick, the Foreign Secretary is most welcome to visit Chile “Chile’s support to Argentina’s claim over the Malvinas Islands is a state policy for our country” said Chilean Executive secretary Andres Chadwick, but it does not mean any impediment to that “very special relation we have with the UK”.
“There should be no impediment or damage to our very special relations and excellent friendship we have with England”, said Chadwick in a brief interview with a Santiago radio station.
Further more, “if the Foreign Secretary wishes to visit Chile, as has been announced by the media, we will very pleased to receive him, welcome him and Chile will listen very carefully to all his reasons (in the dispute); Chile is not against anybody”, underlined the most powerful man in the Chilean Executive after President Sebastian Piñera.
Chadwick added that Chile hopes the conflict can find a solution through a constructive dialogue and that it does not escalate since “we are not looking at a war-kind of situation o anything like that. We hope all this is managed along strict diplomatic discussions, negotiations, dialogue between both countries, because Chile as a neighbouring country, and very good friend of the UK, wants to collaborate in that sense”.
The Chilean Executive official statements follow on information from Argentina that President Cristina Fernandez is planning to visit Chile in the near future as part of her offensive to recover the Falklands/Malvinas Islands.
Cristina Fernandez was scheduled to visit Chile at the end of January, early February but the event had to be cancelled because of the thyroidectomy she underwent early last month following on an original diagnosis of cancerous nodules.
At the time there was speculation that the Argentine president would press of her peer Piñera on the Lan Chile commercial link between Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile and the Falklands, as she had anticipated before the UN General Assembly last September.
The weekly flight is the only scheduled link between the Falklands and the South American continent, and not only is useful for the Islanders but also vital for the 300 Chileans that work in the Islands and virtually the only way for the Argentine veterans and next of kin to visit the Argentine Memorial at Darwin since the Lan flight one a month calls at Rio Gallegos.
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Read all comments“What incompetent country is uk..MY God...179 years,Without solving a simple problemmmm”
Feb 06th, 2012 - 07:49 pm +1Lmao, so ironic.
The problem isn't ours, We have the islands. Argentina is the one who's been unable to solve it's “problem” for 179 years.
Malvinero1/we know all about your hatred for the British, and your anti British rubbish on the [topix web site]
Feb 07th, 2012 - 12:00 am +1And why do you persist with insulting the poor chimps,
Or is it because children can’t tell the difference,
That you probably decent from one ,
So sad, are you ,
24 nitrojuan
Illegal Falklands Legislative Assembly..... what is the important of their opinion
[well without it, Argentina cant and wont get anything]
That’s what is so important,, perhaps the truth is=what is the importance of Argentina in this matter, and the answers, nothing, absolutely nothing ,
And by the way, if you believe Argentina will get the Falklands before the end of the century,
Then may we suggest, you save your celebrations until then, if you are still alive,
30 Malvinero1
Feb 07th, 2012 - 05:55 pm +1In the West we wonder over the maturity of the average Argentine, which apears to us to be more like that of an average 6 year old in the UK.
I've copied this from my Falklands Blog, it's time to wake up Argentines, you are not very bright.
The Argentines are not a real nation, their country has only existed for about 175 years. Most Argentines trace their family history to Italy, Spain, Germany and the British Isles. The only real Argentines are the Amerindians and their nation is the entire continent of America.
The Argentines I know have Italian mothers, English father, Spanish grandfathers, German grandmothers, Welsh great great uncles. It's technically impossible to claim Argentines are a nation.
They also have the most comically fascist like government on the entire continent. Their entire policy agenda revolves around a group of islands they work 24/7 to alienate the population of. While spreading lies and peddling rants about “the British” that make Mugabe look normal by comparison.
Latin Americans find Argentina an alien culture, its a colonial relic, a piece of Europe transplanted onto a continent thousands of miles away. The culture is Latin European, with a touch of English and Welsh. It certainly bears no resemblance to its neighbors in Paraguay, Bolivia, Venezuela, or Peru.
Even the Argentine honour guards wear colonial uniforms copied from the British and Spanish Imperial era.
They are a throwback to another age. An age of fascism.
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