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“Unlikely” Peru would back Argentina in a new Malvinas conflict
Peru’s former Foreign Affairs minister, Jose Antonio Garcia-Belaunde, says it is unlikely that Peru would back Argentina if there were a new conflict with the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands, newspaper El Comercio reported. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesGarcia Belaunde said, however, that Peru would likely stay on the sidelines in the event of another conflict. He said the relationship between Peru and Argentina was hurt as a result of Argentina selling arms to Ecuador to support a brief 1995 war with Peru.
Feb 08th, 2012 - 09:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0More evidence of the childish way South American countries (with the honourable exception of Chile) formulate their foreign policy. Peru should consider what is the truth and who is in the right and then proceed to actively support the Falkland Islanders' rights to self determination.
Another RG ally does a runner.........
Feb 08th, 2012 - 09:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0First Chile ,then Peru ,Brazil is brassed of at sanctions,South American support is suddenly........not there ! Come on Uraguay...tell em striaght.LOL
Feb 08th, 2012 - 10:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0So... when push comes to shove the RGs are left all by themselves...how sad...
Feb 08th, 2012 - 10:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0( we won't count Chavez as he doesn't count....)
My brother is in Peru,
Feb 08th, 2012 - 12:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He says that the Peruvians don't like the Argentines.
They consider them to be arrogant!
Well, dipsy-doo, Beth-may, who would've thought that?
@5 I hear that all over Latin America. I was in Buenos Aires last week and a local lass said to me, 'you know everyone in Latin America hates us'. Her explanation was their arrogance and belief that they are better than everyone else. They are well aware of it.
Feb 08th, 2012 - 01:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I see once again the article is not read correctly,and assumption takes over.Peru supports the cause.It will not help militarily.That's what was said.Argentina has no military ambitions so it equates to nothing said.
Feb 08th, 2012 - 01:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Peru supports the cause.
“Former Argentinean President Carlos Menem was found to be illegally trafficking arms to Ecuador leading up to and during that war.......”
Feb 08th, 2012 - 02:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Menen was used by the US to provide weapons to Ecuador, to balance the conflict. Everybody in the mother knows that !!!!!!!!
Lsolde and Elaine... A lot of people all over the world dislike the Brits, please do not attempt to deny this. What does that suggest?
Feb 08th, 2012 - 02:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0People who live in glass houses...
and I would go back to Peru every year to apologise for what Menen and Balza did ! Just my humble opinion.
Feb 08th, 2012 - 02:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 07 He didn't say that. He said it was “unlikely”. Get your facts right you pathetic little Argentinian worm.
Feb 08th, 2012 - 04:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 09 A lot of people all over the World like the Brits, I like the Brits.
10 Go on then - go back to Peru and apologise every year and then go to Britain every year and apologise for Argentina's Military adventure, naked aggression and war crime in 1982. Are you for real?
Be,
Feb 08th, 2012 - 04:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0you are mixing the issues. Argentina was the guarantor of peace in the conflict between Peru and Ecuador .... allow me to say that you are getting confused.
10 Artillero 602 First time ever I agree with you, that's scary :-)
Feb 08th, 2012 - 04:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0F#$%^ng Menen should go on his knees.
You said
Feb 08th, 2012 - 04:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I would go back to Peru every year to apologise for what Menen and Balza did !
I said
“Go on then”
Not much confusion there and anyway a little mixing of the issues is good - it guards against hypocrisy.
Not much confusion there.... if you say so.
Feb 08th, 2012 - 05:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@13
Feb 08th, 2012 - 05:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There is always a first time for everything Marquitos :-)
But in reality Argentina (Menem) stabbed Peru in the back, or rather shot them, by supplying arms to the other side.
Feb 08th, 2012 - 05:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Is anyone here (other than Argies) really surprised by this?
Chris,
Feb 08th, 2012 - 05:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He was told to do that ....
Artillero, in the end this all proves Argentina is better served to go back to how things were before the 1950s: Neutrality.
Feb 08th, 2012 - 05:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We should become Switzerland in geopolitic. No alliances, no shady deals. Not pretend we can influence the world wer are just not that big of a country. On the other hand, any time countries like the USA or European countries want our support in one of their murderous wars around the globe, we can promptly tell them to F-off. Eventually, they won't even ask just like no one asks the Swiss for support.
LOL, yeah, people from the UK get some stick but we were talking about the relationship between Argentina and the rest of Latin America. You know, dicussing their allies.
Feb 08th, 2012 - 06:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You know, I expected it, but have never personally experienced any anti-British sentiments anywhere on my travels in LatAm. Not directed at me or the UK. If anything it has been the complete opposite. I guess that proves that it is harder to hate when you actually know a person. Maybe that is why the Argentine government seeks to isolate the people and keep them looking inwards. Just a thought.
Let's be serious.what does unlikely mean.for some it means they will,for others it means they won't.for others it means something to comment about.Time-Waster
Feb 08th, 2012 - 06:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Elaine,
Feb 08th, 2012 - 06:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I am an isolationist, not for the same reason my government is, but it don't want Argentina involved much with other countries, especially Europe. And btw, I also have dealt with many foreigners and Latin Americans, I am nothing what whey expected me to be. Or do you think the getting to know people to change your preconceptions only works with Brits? It works with Americans, with Germans, with Arabs, Jews... yes even with inferior, miserable, treacherous argies.
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Feb 08th, 2012 - 06:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not a bad idea but in this modern world we live in is complicated. What Menen did in ' '95 was a direct result of 'playing ball” with the US. The source of my information is extremely reliable :-)
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Feb 08th, 2012 - 08:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The meaning is clear.
You are now squirming around like the worm you are, trying to justify yet another of your inane comments.
Get this. Unlikely doesn't mean “will” and it doesn't mean “will not”. It means unlikely.
Understandy?
23 And the Croatia illegal sale?
Feb 08th, 2012 - 08:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and the 155's to Saddam ?
Feb 08th, 2012 - 08:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and his own mother?
Feb 08th, 2012 - 08:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Interesting isn’t it,
Feb 08th, 2012 - 08:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The more CFK pushes it to a violent conflict,
The more of her support wanes away,
The more she pushes, the more her mates can see what will happen
The more she embarrasses herself, the more distant they become,
CFK you are pushing your country to a point where there is no return,
All because of your obsession and deluded stalking of the Falklands.
What will it take , before you learn .
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Feb 08th, 2012 - 09:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't know that one :-)
the divide and conquer britain wants to playyyyyyyyyyyy
Feb 08th, 2012 - 09:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0in south america. we already know all your tricks.
30 malen
Feb 08th, 2012 - 09:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0that’s a very interesting observance sir, where did you find it,
We all know that it is CFK and her government that is dividing south America, unless you are stating that the British have more influence in south America that CFK has,
Be careful now .
If you wish to lie,, at least make it plausible .
“the divide and conquer britain wants to playyyyyyyyyyyy
Feb 09th, 2012 - 01:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0in south america. we already know all your tricks. ”
It's so old, but it's alive and well since the US copied that tactic by the brits.
Argentinians are known in South America for being backstabbers.
Feb 09th, 2012 - 03:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0They lost one of their TRUE allies (Peru) due mainly to the stupidity and greed of former president Carlos Menen & Associates (including high ranked officers of Argentina's armed forces) during the Cenepa conflict of 1995.
Ordinary Peruvians now see this disgusting episode as a genuine act of treason and they don't want to know anything about supporting Argentina's claims over the Falklands.
The Kirchner-Fernandez dynasty is trying to involve other nations in that part of the world in order to make the Falklands issue an international concern; however, most countries in South America do not want to affect their economic/commercial relationship with the UK as a result of this nonsense.
In the end, Cristina Fernandez is just trying to keep her popularity ratings up by appealing to this unfounded territorial dispute and simultaneously, promoting the candidacy of her successor to the palace of Casa Rosada: Maximo Kirchner.
perhaps we are seeing the final demise of argentina,
Feb 09th, 2012 - 01:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 02012 may well be the year of the british, and the end of CFK .
24#Do you mean the word 'unlikely' means its unlikeyly to happen,take place,occur,ect and that is the likely explanation or is not the likely explanation,or what does it refer to.And any other form of time wasting exercise you care to address.Now do be serious about your interpretation of this crucially relevant word.
Feb 09th, 2012 - 06:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 033# I was beginning to think you were going to post a serious perspective on how others view Argentina's endeavour's to reassert it's governance of las Malvinas,but then you became paranoid about how the state of Argentina can make(yes make) the rest of the continent to support it's cause.A massive underestimation of these countries independent,democratic institution.And this to support your dislocated thinking,because you then want others to believe that this isn't the people of Argentina who agree with this cause,but because a dynasty is exploiting the continent and the people of Argentina with an imaginary cause for their own ends.
Now that kind of logic is the same kind of paranoid thinking that said Iraq had WMD's ready to be used in 45mins.Or to put it another way,deliberate and misleadly lies
ok there is no need to worry. Peru needs to keep their trade partners we understand, in other headlines not mercopress, Thursday 09 February 2012
Feb 09th, 2012 - 07:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Hugo Chavez has pledged that Venezuelan armed forces would fight alongside Argentina against Britain in any future conflict over the Falkland Islands at a regional meeting this weekend.”
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/falklandislands/9063065/Hugo-Chavez-says-Venezuelan-troops-would-fight-with-Argentina-over-Falklands.html
if mr hugo the bear is your only hope, mr pirate,
Feb 09th, 2012 - 10:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0then the gallow will come sooner than you think .
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