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UK disappointed with Uruguay's identification of Falklands as 'a latent threat'
The United Kingdom is disappointed with Uruguay's stance which identifies the Falklands/Malvinas Islands as 'a latent threat' and an element that negatively affects the South Atlantic as “as zone of peace and cooperation”. Ambassador Ben Lyster-Binns said he does not share the statement that the British Overseas Territory of the Falklands are a 'destabilizing element for the region'. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesOnce the oil comes it'll be a different tune.......then the islanders will be invited to party on Bikini Beach en la Punta
May 09th, 2014 - 03:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0UK disappointed?
May 09th, 2014 - 03:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Good.
Get used to it.
Watch out for the Russians.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/10816463/Russian-aircraft-carrier-sails-into-English-Channel.html
Marcos,
May 09th, 2014 - 05:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0you pathetic dupe.
What a numbskull you are.
You don't live in Argentina or SA, yet you would seem to be an outsider even in Europe or Canada.
Very uncool - you must be one lonely dummy.
We don't hear from you often - do you you have to go to the Cyber- café and put in coins to use the Internet??
LOL !!
Just goes to show how stupid some people are.
May 09th, 2014 - 06:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yes there was a Russian aircraft carrier in the English channel. You dont mention it had a destroyer and several support ships along with it.
You also fail to mention that the UK, just sent along HMS Dragon to escort it, one ship, one type 45 destroyer. Why? Because our destroyers are more than caperble of doing much more damage.
however, the biggest point here, is that this was not an act of aggression, this was two countries acting with mature diplomacy as one relocates several naval assets.
this mus seem strange to an Argentine, who thinks every ship movement is an act of war, or militarising the area.
God knows how Argentina would act if we did the same, when the new aircraft carriers are launched. Would be funny to see, first sea trials down to the falklands. ROFL
The only THREAT in the South Atlantic is bully boy poser nation Argentina. They pose all the time in their budgie smugglers making rude gestures but true to the character of an Italian Stallion they are in reality frightened little ponies. Their various attempts to buy clapped out washed up aircraft that work are noted and their navy is true to form rolling over and showing its bottom to all and sundry. They can retreat fast its true, but that doesn't help win battles.
May 09th, 2014 - 08:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0The crew of the Admiral Kuznetsov would probably be glad to see a Type 45, given that they've been on manouvres for five months - Dragon would be one of the last foreign escorts that they see before they get home.
May 09th, 2014 - 09:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0Macros @ No:2 - Yes, it's disappointing but no where near as disappointing as it is for Argentina considering it's still no closer to obtaining the Falkland Islands..
May 09th, 2014 - 09:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0Excellent comment Vulcan @ No:4, very enjoyable read lol!
#2
May 09th, 2014 - 10:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0Your point being ?
@ 2
May 09th, 2014 - 11:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0As the Russians have every reason to. They can sail their carriers through the Channel if they like.
Stuff the Russians; they are no threat to the UK.
May 09th, 2014 - 11:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0Back on topic:
“A recent public opinion poll contracted by the British embassy in Montevideo also showed that even when a majority of Uruguayans believe the Falklands/Malvinas are Argentine, an overwhelming majority, 80% support closer links with the Islands.”
And that, as they say, is that. It seems the “100% support for the Stupid Tupas” that “No Free Energy” Stevie has always claimed is, as usual, bollocks.
I met the leaders of a Uruguayan farming delegation to the Falklands last year and they just shrug it off as “something we have to live with but take no notice of”.
So nothing to see, move along!
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May 09th, 2014 - 11:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0Its not the people but the puppet Uruguayan government we think,
May 09th, 2014 - 12:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0they have to comply with CFK indoctrination , and you can bet that behind the scenes argentine government bully boys threaten and bully the Uruguayan government , do this or do that or else.
still,
that's their loss not ours,
as for the ruskies they were in international waters,
now then, if they were sailing up the Thames and sat out side of parliament then the mighty MARCOS would have a point..lolol
Marcos, if you think that the British are disadvantaged by comparison with a Russian aircraft carrier, what you may not realize is that the type 45 destroyers have ship to ship missiles which could destroy any existing aircraft carrier in a very short time.
May 09th, 2014 - 02:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 013 copland
May 09th, 2014 - 03:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0UK disappointed with Pepe's aircraft carrier?
More powerful than British 45 destroyers.
http://www.pragmatismopolitico.com.br/2012/06/presidente-mais-pobre-do-mundo-ainda-anda-de-fusca-e-doa-90-do-salario.html
“The Uruguayan government position is that the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty belongs to Argentina.”
May 09th, 2014 - 03:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“The Uruguayan defense policy document for the period 2014/2030 identifies several threats and obstacles...the seizure and control of strategic resources.”
Alluding to the exploration of Argentine oil fields and devastation of Argentine fisheries resources by the never sufficiently puteados English.
Interesting bit about the Typhoons intercepting the Bears off the North of Scotland. Gad! How many times as that happened, must be hundreds if not thousands by now.
May 09th, 2014 - 03:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Obligatory wave and smile for the camera, turn around and back home in time for drinks in the mess.
Uruguay telling BA what it knows that BA wishes to hear - while behind the scenes Uruguay's business community is opening up further business channels with the Kelpers. It's called politics :-)
May 09th, 2014 - 04:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0AS for Russian carriers Morecrap - they have the right of free passage through British (or was it French?) waters. No threat.
#15 - Argentine oil fields ?? Now that is funny :-)
“UK disappointed with Uruguay's identification of Falklands as 'a latent threat'”
May 09th, 2014 - 04:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0funny
they should be disappointed with the whole latin america then.
and the whole africa.
and 1/2 europe.
and the u.s.
and almost all asia including russia and china.
http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/china-backs-argentina-s-claim-over-falklands-113031100320_1.html
http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/china-backs-argentina-s-claim-over-falklands-113031100320_1.html
as for the “several uruguayan lawmakers” they were 3 (THREE).
that is a few uruguayan lawmakers.
this 4th class newspaper is a joke
@ 18 Paulie
May 09th, 2014 - 04:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Does you rant mean that you are giving up on us and not giving us the dubious pleasure of your “advice” by NOT posting again.
PLEASE, PLEASE SAY IT IS SO.
Wow, all those people, be a piece of piss to win all the votes you want at the UN then, won't it?
May 09th, 2014 - 04:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So pray tell, what the hell is stopping you?????????????
and please, do not insult us by referring to some inconsequential UN club stacked with inconsequential diplomats! Who have about has much power as a fart in a deep swimming pool!
chris plunger
May 09th, 2014 - 05:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0first of all, go back to your toilets.
and don't try to spoil the topic with personal insults, you twat.
the seizure and control of strategic resources.”
May 09th, 2014 - 06:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Alluding to the exploration of Argentine oil fields and devastation of Argentine fisheries resources
[- Prove it -]
or we will never believe what you say...
@18 paulcedron
May 09th, 2014 - 06:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Then put it to a vote.
Argentina propose a UNGA resolution calling for, “the UK negotiate sovereignty of the Falklands, directly Argentina”.
That should do it.
“don't try to spoil the topic with personal insults, you twat”.
Pot – kettle.
UK disappointed with Uruguay
May 09th, 2014 - 06:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What he meant was, no more tea and biscuits,
We think as it was Uruguay’s turn to supply the chocolate ones,
They are getting defensive, as they wanted rich-tea..lol
[-just a storm in a tea cup -]
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@15 & 18
May 09th, 2014 - 06:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is irrelevant which country does or does not support Argentina's claim because Argentina does not have a legal claim to the Falklands. Lol
The only support the islanders need in this world is the British,
May 09th, 2014 - 07:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And they have it, do they not,lol
@ 23 Pugol-H
May 09th, 2014 - 07:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I wasn’t even the kettle!
Mind you, he does have a strange predilection for toilets: perhaps he has to live in one.
Strange is'nt it, this reverberating claim that the whole world supports them, yet the one place you never hear it reverberate is on the worlds biggest international stage, the UN.
May 09th, 2014 - 07:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Could it possibly be, just possibly be, that they have miscalculated and that they are in fact mistaken?
Then again it could be that they are a bunch of idiots who swallow their own crap.
If Uruguay are worried about a base over 1000 miles away that only has defensive weaponry, are they also shitting their pants about Ascension Island?
May 09th, 2014 - 09:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He's just kissing RG ass.
May 09th, 2014 - 09:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A prerequisite for Uruguayan politicians along with a three foot Velcro covered tongue.
Must suck to be someone's bitch all your life.
Threat, what threat! and to who, SA borders?
My farcical have never been so farcicled.
Are there no men in there country with balls?
@ 30 reality check
May 09th, 2014 - 09:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Are there no men in there country with balls?
Only those with little titchy tiny ones that have yet to drop.
“Must suck to be someone's bitch all your life.”
May 09th, 2014 - 09:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0yeah.
must suck to be the u.s. bitch all your life, like little britain.
most of all when all that effort is not compensated anymore.
Would that be the same little Britian that sent a Task Force 11.000 miles. Landed on an island, engaged in combat, defeated and then gave, the soldiers of a nation of 40m a 400 mile free lift home, so they could be smuggled in under the cover of darkness? To the country that was ashamed of them. That's right even though they did their duty, ashamed of them!
May 09th, 2014 - 10:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Be that same littleBritian would it?
Damn, must be nice to be a mighty Argentine!
Proud to be a little
Not even going bother to laugh, your not worth the effort!
I find it strange when they talk of colonial powers from far away yet never mention French Guiana. They have a ownership of a complete country on Continental South America (incorporated into the French State) and they say 'f:ck all? Can you imagine if it was British....! And yet they bitch about a couple of Islands hundreds of miles away.... Classic SA hypocrisy.
May 10th, 2014 - 07:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh no! Are you guys disappointed?
May 10th, 2014 - 10:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Maybe, just maybe, if you stopped being so occupied with yourselves and your alternative truths, you'd realise that Uruguay has ALWAYS supported Argentina in this cause and has NEVER said or done anything else for you lot to think that we ever did or would support the UK in the South Atlantic.
You see, it's all about expectations. See yourselves for what you are and you'll avoid future disappointments...
@35
May 10th, 2014 - 11:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Fortunately the worst the Falkland Islands and the UK have with Argentina and Uruguay are disappointments....
With Argentina and Uruguay disappointments tend to wax and wane with disaster, then unfulfilled hope, then disaster then unfulfilled hopes etc etc
@34
May 10th, 2014 - 02:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Very good point about the French.
Also what about the bloody Dutch? Don't they have interests in the Caribbean?
The bastards!!!!!
;-)
@35
May 10th, 2014 - 03:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Another useless “Stevie” post - no rebuttal, no substance...
I'm still pissed off about the bloody Dutch! Murdering colonialist pirates.
May 10th, 2014 - 06:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And the French too! How dare they interfere in Latin America!
And the filthy Portuguese, oh and effing Spanish for that matter. ..
oh hang on a minute, umm...
Actually chaps we may have been in our assumptions of the unmighty CFK,
May 10th, 2014 - 07:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Apparently for her services rendered in support of the Russian bear,
They did try to send one of their fleets to personal protect Argentina and CFK,
Whilst ST George was sleeping,
Unfortunately and unlucky for them, they run into the mighty DRAGON—HMS
Read…lolol.
Well,
It’s a good story…
British Destroyer Versus the Russian Navy
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/55a2d0e341e1
HMS ‘Dragon’ intercepts Moscow’s warships
Dragon, , is among the world’s newest sophisticated warships—albeit fairly weakly armed.?
With her Sampson radar and 48 Sea Viper missiles, she can find, track and destroy aircraft at long range.
However, just four of the six Darings are getting Harpoon anti-ship missiles—and it’s not clear if Dragon is one of the four.
[ penny pinching again, costs lives -]
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Thanks Briton. Interesting link, and the links from that page too.
May 10th, 2014 - 09:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Cheers old bean!
anytime.
May 11th, 2014 - 07:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Bit concerned that none of the trolls seem very concerned about the Spanish and Portuguese 'interfering' in Latin America, historically speaking. They bang on about the British in 18 bloody whatever Century but have nothing to say about this.
May 11th, 2014 - 10:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A little inconsistent, in my humble opinion.
Must be down to the effin Dutch in the Carribbean then, no?
Bastards!
Maybe someone should point out to Uruguay's Government that if they recognised the Falklander's right to exist without being annexed by a Latin enclave in South America that's over 200 miles away, then it might make their opinions even slightly worth considering.
May 12th, 2014 - 03:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps Uruguay could sign a common defense agreement with the Falklander's if they want the UK to reduce its military presence on the Falklands.
Only one problem with the common defence idea: Uruguay has a Defence Minister, a Deputy Defence Minister and NO FRIGGING DEFENCE FORCES worthy of the name!
May 12th, 2014 - 12:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The total number of people in the whole country is less than ONE THIRD of the population of Greater London.
We do have 600,000 government employees, government numbers so it will be more in reality.
The ONLY reason they would sign such an agreement is so the UK Armed Forces could defend Uruguay from TMBOA.
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