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Argentina president of the United Nations Security Council
Argentina assumed on August first s the rotating Presidency of the United Nations Security Council. Argentina was elected as a non-permanent member of the multilateral body by the General Assembly for the 2013-2014 term rallying unanimous support among Latin American and Caribbean nations. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI think we all know what this means, endless speeches about anachronistic enclaves, militarising the south atlantic and calling for talks which exclude the people they want to talk about.
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 04:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0There we are, Argentina's one year presidency in a nut shell.
Apparently most of the ambassadors have their annual holidays scheduled for August.
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 04:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Now its crystal clear why Aerolinas is resuming NYC flights - so that Gollum and his mates can commute.
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 05:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0Opening speech......
Sssssss..... Gollum Gollum , I wants it, I must have it, nasty British stole it........ Yaaaaawn
With all the serious problems going on in the world, I doubt there is going to be much tolerance for Argentina trying to pursue their own selfish agendas, day in day out.
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 05:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0With any luck they will overplay their hand as they always do, its pretty much guaranteed.
#4 maybe Argentina will be the first impeached member .........lol
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 05:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0@1
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 06:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0The presidency of the Council is held by each of the members in turn for “one month”.
Argentina has got August - as previously posted the quietest month of the year.
Argentina 's Foreign Ministry stated -
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 06:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0'Argentina will continue to promote multilateral actions, the non-intervention in domestic issues, the transparency and democratization of the United Nations with full respect to human rights and humanitarian law being convinced that long-lasting peace is built in truth, justice and equality as well as in socio-economic development and social inclusion'
What would Argentina know about 'non-intervention in domestic issues',
'full respect to human rights ' and ' truth, justice and equality'
It's not April 1st is it?
We see what's said on the 5th August , will we see Statesmanship or comedy act this could be the time when we see a politician on an international stage play to the pennant gallery and be humiliated internationally or we might see some real politics of not starting a fight you are sure of the out come. Mind you it is August everybody is on holiday or in holiday mood but the press have a real shortage in news stories so one wrong word may spiral into an inferno.....problem with infernos you can not predict who will get burned and only intentionally ignited in desperation .....we shall see
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 08:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0Let's see what Timerman and La Kretina can get on the Security Council agenda for the rest of this month!
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 08:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0Congratulations, Argentina......Pope, Security Council! Wow, this world is yours!
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 08:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0@10. Yes welcome to the adults table. What an eye opener it will be for the eternal teenagers to see the real troubles of the world and how not everything is about them.
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 09:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0The seat is taken by the senior political appointee present from the State that holds the Chair. Guess who is intending to go to the Security Council Meeting on Tuesday ??
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 10:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0Not that anything will change :-)
Let's see, with China grabbing territory in Southeast Asia, Iran working on nuclear bombs, North Korea starving it's people with threats of nuclear war, Cuba supply ancient arms to North Korea, starvation in Africa, Terrorism (Argentina's allies) growing, the world economy in general and global climate shifts.........yes I wonder if Argentina will act like an adult in August.
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 10:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0I believe August will be an 'interesting' month at the SC but only time will tell on exactly how 'interesting'.
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 10:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0I do believe however that Argentina will attempt to 'air' its 'problems' with the Falklands in some manner. Just let us wait and see how.
7 darragh
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 11:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0“It's not April 1st is it?”
Only every day of the year in The Dark Country.
:o)
She will present the petition of 1 million signatures for the Argentinian sovereignty of the Falkland Islands.
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 11:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0@10
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 12:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I read that comment as sarcasm....... beware......Yanks don't do sarcasm.......sails right over their heads.......comment 11?
@16 agent999
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 12:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0She may but the SC cannot 'grant' sovereignty, they can only advise her to take it to the ICJ. As per the UN Charter.
Darragh...the Irish man.
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 01:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why are you here? Siding with the people who colonized your country and starved your forefathers.
Ever been to the 'dropping well' pub in south Dublin?
I hear Ireland still is 3 million human beings short of its pre-colonial days.
#19
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 01:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Careful now there.
This from Vestige a supporter of colonist implanted in south America . Telling others how to behave. Typical colonist nastiness.
Argentina’s implanted colonizing population is now 42.000.000+ and still wants more of other peoples land. Nasty.
@19 Vestige
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 01:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Unlike Argentina, Ireland doesn't live in the past.
Very few people blame the people of today for deeds done by people long dead to other people who are also long dead.
And at least 10% of the British population has at least 1 Irish grandparent. That's about 6.2 million people.
I am one of those people.
So why would the Irish hate people who are descended from Irish people?
Only sad people like you hate, Vestige.
As for the news article, it'll be interesting to see if Argentina lives up to it's responsibilities on the UNSC, or whether they're going to try and abuse the trust of the UN by banging on about a complete non-event that happened in 1833.
“Only sad people like you hate, Vestige”
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 02:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0lol.
And tell me Vestige during the famine what did Argentina do to help the Irish?
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 02:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh I know - nothing.
And what did your ex-colonial masters, Spain, do to help the Irish?
Oh I know - nothing.
You ought to try reading some history Vestige then you might learn that Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland and thus not a colony.
Some of us have grown up and don't whinge about things that happened 150 years ago.
At least Britain has moved on from imperialism unlike Argentina with it's desperate attempts to create an empire in the Southern Ocean
What do you expect ? Money transfers ? Atlantic ocean in the way. Some 8000 miles of sea.
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 02:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I do know how Britain helped the starving Irish though...they exported the food farmed by the Irish on land stolen from the Irish, which they charged them to live on...in the middle of a famine.
Oh I know about what Britain got up to in Ireland. “Thus not a colony”. Dear god. ....no no its ok if you plant a flag first.
Britain might have moved on from imperialism ... the campers it left behind in the north of Ireland and Gibraltar and 8000 miles away in the south Atlantic haven't. They generate nothing but trouble.
The irony - their purposes were to generate wealth and enhance reputation, yet they generate only enemies and both directly cost and indirectly cause, Britain to lose billions.
Are you here to uncle Tom your starved forefathers ? ... oh yessum mista kelper sir.
#24
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 02:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nasty Vestige colonist supporter gets upset and thrashes about frothing at the mouth. Nasty.
raaaaaarrrr
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 03:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0raaaaaaaaaaaarrr!!
#26
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 03:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That'll be the sound Dopey aka Gollum will hear when he gets back from New York early September from KFC mouth.
Vestige - descendent of colonist, or recent colonist, supporter of invasion, conquest of wealthy, peaceful, crime free little bit of England's in the South Atlantic. Twat doesn't realise how many Brita have a bit of the blarney in them.
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 03:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Gollum will see this as an ideal opportunity to spew even more bile at the UN. All civilised nations have the measure of the sad country RGland has become - raging inflation, crime ridden, rubbish stewn streets, propaganda posters everywhere, corrupt government and police. Yet this twat comes on here criticizing Britain and the Falkland Islands. Vestige you are a heap of shit
The squatter isles .... winning Britain friends since 1833.
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 03:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@19
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 03:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Unlike Argentina's fixation with the 19th century Ireland have moved on.
Perennially blaming the British for what they did in the past is not going to help Ireland, so instead they get on with their lives and for a population of 4million I reckon they do alright by focussing on the future.
Tony Blair apologised to Ireland for the factors surrounding the potato famine, but Argentina do not have the bottle to apologise for starting the Falklands war and imprisoning Falkland Islanders without proper food, drink and toilet facilities at Goose Green. Not to mention the use of napalm and laying unmarked land mines.
@1
and @13
I would actually be amazed if Argentina looked at (and even presented ideas to solve) issues that concern the whole world especially Syria. The comic thing is that most of the world's trouble makers are their mates (smart that eh?).
They tried to rope the pope in over the FIs, but don't' get it' that his role now encompasses world problems rather than 'mountains out of mole hills.'
I went to put a bet on that Argentina would raise the Falklands at the UN during their presidency but the betting shop manager told me to take a hike.
#29
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 03:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thats it! Thats your best! Really?
TWIMC
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 03:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The English way to deal with ilegals:
“Go home or face arrest”…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p95k_xcIrNM
The Argie way to deal with ilegals:
Kelpers go home... and have a nice life…..
#32 Yapper
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 03:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0'Kelpers go home... and have a nice life…..'
They are home and having a nice life in their Falkland Islands.
Yep, for generations to come.
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 03:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@32 Think
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 04:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina doesn't have illegals - who would want to go there!
'The protection of civilians and Haiti focus Argentina president of the Security Council of the UN ~ ...Asked about the issue of the Falkland Islands, Perceval said that “everyone” knows that it is a sovereignty issue facing their country with the UK, but that does not correspond to the Security Council and rule on the matter being discussed in the Decolonization Committee of the United Nations....'
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 04:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.eldiario.es/internacional/Haiti-presidencia-Consejo-Seguridad-ONU_0_160284626.html
OMG Think, the puss dripping sadness has risen from his pit. Do you 'Think' that if RGland ruled the Falkland Islands that it would improve the quality of life of its inhabitants. No, they would be plunged into the same pit of despair that RGland is in. Who in their right mind would wish to be part of RGland? No doubt Gollum will be promoting RGlands attractions at the UN. But, Gollum is a failed foreign minister with the diplomatic skills of a potato, so don't hold your breath. It's going to be giggle August at the UN security council.
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 04:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@32 that's better than go home or we'll throw you out a C130,................... if we can get one airborne of course
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 05:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The UNSC have had worse.
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 05:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@24 Vestige
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 05:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Think you know British history do you? You would paint a picture that Britain engineered such a famine but at the time potato blight took a hold, the right ideology and the UN disaster funds were not the kind of thing countries and governments were about, especially when you were liable to be sent off to penal colonies in Australia for stealing a chicken. Trouble elsewhere famine or whatever was of little consequence considering the common brit were poorer than church mice.
And Vestige, Spain and Brazil left its campers all over south america. Such a one-sided story you tell, full of hypocrisy that you forget your amerindian countrymen, killed for bounty payments right into the 20th century. Done a amerindian head count recently? 1, 2, 3... yup, 3, that's about it.
@32 Think
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 06:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0TWAT
“Argentines” are implanted no? What SA tribe are you from? Or did your great, great grand daddy rape, slaughter and pillage a nice pile for your private Anglo education?
“Argentina” is actually a rather old political entity but alas perpetually wearing short trousers. I'd be be embarrassed.
Sadly, the “K Corruption List” is very long:
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 06:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In 1993 as governor of Santa Cruz Province he expatriated 654 million dollars in public funds into tax havens of which only small amounts trickled back; when a local lawsuit was filed on this case he maneuvered the case and ended up being acquitted by judge Santiago Lozada who is his nephew-in-law;
Widespread public works bribery in the Infrastructure Ministry run by crony Julio De Vido; when former economy minister and whistle-blower Roberto Lavagna publicly disclosed this in 2005, Mr. K promptly fired him;
Embezzlement of government railway subsidies under crony transport ministers Ricardo Jaime and Juan Pablo Schiavi; both are under investigation over a railway accident that killed 51 passengers in February 2012 in Buenos Aires’ derelict, run-down and unmaintained passenger trains;
Cristina Kirchner’s 2007 presidential campaign funding where a Venezuelan crony was caught trying to bring into the country a suitcase stashed with 800.000 dollars cash “for Cristina’s campaign”, as well as campaign contributions from illegal drug front-companies;
Public funding for the “Madres Plaza de Mayo” NGO - a front for 70’s terrorists’ rights – embezzled by its head Sergio Schoklender (who spent decades in jail for murdering his parents in 1981), whose treasurer is Felisa Miceli, a former K economy minister forced to resign in 2005 after bundles of hard cash were found in her ministry toilette.
42
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 07:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Repeating yourself Mr Copy........how droll!
Well 40 .... of the famine(s) ... Britain still managed to steal food from the starving, no litany of excuses can excuse that. Food from the starving.
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 07:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But Im not here to dwell on history, we're all children of colonists if you go back far enough. Normans Saxons Celts blah blah.
I think Darragh having a British grandfather has explained it.
Thankfully Ireland had a sensible policy around the time of the conflict.
Denied Thatcher, condemned the belgrano incident. I guess Darragh is in the minority in Ireland. :)
@44 La Campora Banana
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 07:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 07) Change the argument - check
9) Attack the poster - check
Your supervisor nods appreciatively.
Cristina Kirchner herself is also in dire straits trying to
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 08:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0explain how she managed to grow her officially declared assets
tenfold to 70.000.000 pesos by 2011, then equivalent to around 20
million dollars. When she visited Harvard University last year, a young student
raised her hand to ask exactly that question, to which a visibly
uneasy Mrs K replied that she was “a very successful lawyer”.
Pity that there isn’t single court in Argentina’s judicial
system having record of any legal lawsuit where Cristina Lawyer may
have been awarded fees remotely anywhere near those amounts.
Again, K’s former deputy-governor Eduardo Arnold went public saying he too believed there were money-filled vaults in the K home and mausoleum hiding tons of
Euros. Néstor K’s former private secretary (kicked out by Mrs K)
publicly declared she had heard and seen key K “helpers and
assistants” carrying and talking about bags stuffed with kilos of Euros. K´s architect
who built his residence actually showed the house plans and exact
location of the vault on national TV. Knowing of K’s
preference for 500 Euro bank notes, that vault could have housed up
to 3 billion Euros…
This has brought millions of opponents out on the streets,
especially the vast and still unorganized working middle class
which is getting increasingly fed up with the K-Regime. Mass
middle-class anti-government demonstrations took to the streets on
September 13th and November 8th last year and, more recently, on
18th April.
With legislative elections set for October and the situation
growing worse day by day for Kirchner, this promises to be a very complicated
year for Argentina.
*con't
Oooh Darragh .... did you read #45.
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 09:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@47 La Campora Banana
Aug 02nd, 2013 - 09:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 09) Attack the poster - check
By numbers. Tidy.
32. Little correction, The RG way to deal with illegals is to pay them to vote for the Ks.
Aug 03rd, 2013 - 09:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0@23 darragh:
Aug 03rd, 2013 - 07:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Strange how vestige broods on the results of having a Wigg Westminster government with a dogmatic approach to economic liberalism at the time of a natural disaster: I just assumed them to be incompetent arrogant fools, rather than having any malicious intent.
On the other hand, I recollect you yourself have highlighted Argentinian guilt in the maltreatment of the Irish: The Dresden Affair...
The United Nations lost its way years ago; it suffers from Institutionalised cowardice and gross self-interest. Anyone in the rota list takes the Chair automatically, no matter how unsuitable or internationally inept or morally bankrupt the chairperson may be for the duties involved.
Aug 04th, 2013 - 05:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0@ 51Room101
Aug 04th, 2013 - 06:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0One of the more sensible and enlightened comments entered here for some considerable time, mine included.
However the UN is essentially all 'we' have at the moment, so I guess we have to live with it.
@51
Aug 04th, 2013 - 07:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“no matter how unsuitable or internationally inept or morally bankrupt the chairperson may be for the duties involved.”
Well, afterall, one has to behave according to the example set by the 5 permanent members. Which just happen to be the most immoral, repressive, war mongering nations on Earth the last 50 years.
Odd isn't it?
who the fuck said the 5 is suppose to be examples you fucking tit sucking teen. How moral is your fucking government tossing it's own citizens, including priests out of helicopters alive over Rio de la Plate?
Aug 04th, 2013 - 09:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How moral is it stealing from the people....poor people at that in Argentina as a president? Apparently your same morals got you spanish asses kicked from GB when you made the stupid ass assumption that having a military transfers into might. Your military was only good for killing it's civilians and warring with other spanish militaries. Their should be a tag on your military.......caution, not for use against real militaries.
This coming from a patriot from a country that hasn't won a real war since WWII?
Aug 05th, 2013 - 12:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0Korea? Armistice.
Vietnam? Tuck and run.
Bay of Pigs? Bay of losers.
First Iraq war? It was thanks to the Coalition, not the USA.
Second Iraq war? Utter failure based on a lie.
Afghanistan war? Another tuck and run upcomming.
Ok, you won against Panama and the superpower of Grenada.
Congratulations.
Tobi lactose deprived again>
Aug 05th, 2013 - 05:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Korea.....battle
Vietnam battle
Bay of pigs.....battle
Cold War .....where is the USSR? BTW,you left a few other battles of the cold war out.
Iraq........of course, the coalition did it tit boi. 956,000 troops and almost 700,000 Americans. ......As for Afghanistan and the Iraq II, the cold war has been replaced with the war on terrorist, your allies tobi.....your allies. Those are battlegrounds. I would hardly call it a loss. And more so, if civilians did not oversee the them conflicts and generals fought them, they would look more like the first 30 days of the Gulf war in 1991 when you were not even a cum stain in your mother's panties.
Your childish thinking brings me to thinking about your governments war against the Montoneros.....how did that go? We have some documents on those years, would you like to read them? It's really ashame that Christina and Nasty Nestor never got a ride in a green Falcon....no?
Tobi, you are better off being a sperm stain in your mothers panties.....no? Again, you did not answer my question.
@53. The purpose of the UN Security Council is to maintain international peace and security; it's the right ideal
Aug 05th, 2013 - 04:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sadly Realpolitik subverts such high ideal and a lesser, imperfect and corrupted reality ensues
I submit that one of the reasons the permanent members are open to greater criticism, is because they undertake to provide combat forces to war zones and to enforce UN Security Council resolutions
Sometimes it is questionable , other times justified. Still, humankind should strive for high ideals, even if in doing so it fails and is found wanting
Personally I'm a dreamer with John Lennon on this one:Mankind should renounce countries, possessions and religions and live as one ;-D
@57 Domingo:
Aug 06th, 2013 - 12:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well said.
@10, @46 good points
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