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Falklands want to be good neighbors and have closer links with Latin America
The Falkland Islands and its people want to be 'good neighbors, have trade links, cooperation agreements and closer relations with the southern cone of South America, but 'without losing our identity', said Falklands lawmakers to Punta Arenas Prensa Austral that was present at the celebrations last Saturday for the 250th anniversary of the first flying of the Union Flag in the Islands marking the beginning of British rule. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“We would like to have a good neighborly relation with all Latin American countries”
Feb 06th, 2015 - 03:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0Great idea! We are looking forward to have good relations with London soon after they return our stolen islands.
London doesn't care.
Feb 06th, 2015 - 05:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0Move on psycho bitch.
Marcos
Feb 06th, 2015 - 06:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0There are no “stolen islands”...you have been lied to, and made to look a fool.
@1
Feb 06th, 2015 - 06:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0Stolen? If only there was some kind of International Court of Justice that Argentina could take its case to! Presumably though, if there was such a court and Argentina failed to bring its case there for the 70 years of the court's existence then we could safely assume that Argentina knew there had been no theft and acquiesced to British sovereignty?
Marquitos Alejandrito
Feb 06th, 2015 - 07:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0More juvenile brain washed nonsense!
#4
Feb 06th, 2015 - 08:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Technically they have had a chance for ~93 years (since the founding of the Permanent Court of International Justice in 1922).
#1
It's not too late to stop this pathetic waste of your life. Consider this, you devote so much energy in pursuit of either subjugating a peaceful population or evicting them and stealing their homes. What's worse is that you've be duped into acting this way by your corrupt (as verified by international bodies) government as a means of distracting you from your nation's failing economy as evidenced by their failure to bring their complaint to the ICJ or its predecessor. This is made even more tragic by the fact that your nation, despite all its protestations, was established by a rebellion of European immigrants against European rule which subsequently went on to subjugate people and vast tracks of their ancestral land.
Marco- Why do you and those naive thicvkos you have as Govt leaders not try actually asking to talk to the people who live in and control the islands istead of a country 8000 miles away that has made it 100% clear to you for years that it does not run nor govern in the islands?
Feb 06th, 2015 - 09:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Instead of ranting and prattling on a load of tripe that even you cannot properly understand.
l look forward to air links to Capetown.
Feb 06th, 2015 - 09:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0Stop lying Marcos.
You know full well, these are NOT your lslands, otherwise your country would be putting its case to the ICJ.
The “whole world”knows that.
ldiot.
Yes, this “news site” is a perfect mirror of the Falklanders wishes of having good relations with the LA neighbours.
Feb 06th, 2015 - 09:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0It's a good thing MP exists though. That way it's easy to see what the Falklanders really are about...
Marcos, there is as much chance of the UK handing over the FI as you leaving the UK, so put a sock in it!
Feb 06th, 2015 - 10:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina already has not good, excellent relations and links with all of its neighbors in our region. That includes Malvinas, of course, part of our geography. You are the invaders and that is why they can say hi but they don't recognize you as the lawful owners. Besides, you still insist on your Britishness! Let us go and live there to see how British you remain. And don't say there are a few (exceptional) case as this is clearly not the rule.
Feb 06th, 2015 - 10:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0Lots of links with Chile, much respect with Brazil because of the Olympics, Columbian links are growing, groundswell of pro British sentiment across South America even among the upper echelons in Argentina. Top Gear episode gained us lots more friends as the knuckle dragging Peronistas were exposed.
Feb 06th, 2015 - 10:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0There are big trade opportunities awaiting whoever can supply the islands with all the materials required for the oil exploration business.
Feb 06th, 2015 - 10:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0Aberdeen has a lot of experience in sourcing the food and spares required on the rigs, so they can provide lots of useful information, but whoever gets the contracts for the supplies, be it in Puntas Arenas or elsewhere will be laughing all the way to the bank.
I suggested the other day on Facebook that the new administration in BA will need to make a leap of faith and talk to the Islanders. It's the only way to restore the cooperation over resources.
If they don't, then the Islanders will get rich, whilst Argentina gets poorer.
As a Chilean I'm ashamed of our pandering to Argentina and disloyalty to the Falkland Islanders. My people have a very short memory and affliction to stupidity.
Feb 06th, 2015 - 10:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0@1. Maybe. But London isn't looking forward to having 'good relations' with you. Skip has nailed it. Just give us an excuse and we'll nail you.
Feb 06th, 2015 - 10:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0@9. How would you get to know what the Falklanders are about? Ever been to the Islands and spoken to one? But try this for a thought. Given the way that the slimeballs from argieland, like you, comment when they get on here, what do you reckon ordinary Falklander might feel if argieland disappeared in radioactive flame?
@11 No, you are the invaders. And now, as you cant actually lawfully kill the indiginous Amerindians any longer, you have taken to starving their children to death.
Feb 06th, 2015 - 10:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0We just celebrated 250 years since we settled the Falkland Islands long before your nation even existed. It remains British even after your illegal war when we threw you out. Get used to it!
@14 By what I understand of history in your region, Chile has been crying that Argentina stole the Patagonia from Chile. I thing you almost went to war several times because if it. So, what is the diference in losing land be it in FI or Patagonia?
Feb 06th, 2015 - 11:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0#11
Feb 06th, 2015 - 12:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”Argentina already has not good, excellent relations and links with all of its neighbours in our region.”
Precisely, Argentina's relations with its neighbours are 'not good'. How could they be with such an appalling government running the place? Argentina is becoming a hated pariah even amoung its so-called Latin allies. Fear and contempt are not a good basis for a mature wholesome relationship.
“Besides, you still insist on your Britishness! Let us go and live there to see how British you remain.”
You forget that, for a few short weeks in 1982, Argentines did ‘go and live’ in the Falklands (illegally and in great numbers) and despite your best efforts to change the essential nature of the Islanders, you failed! The way you treated the Islanders and the animal like behaviour of some Argentines demonstrated why Argentines are still persona non grata in the Falklands and probably always will be.
Argentina's relationships with its neighbours is driven by convenience and a desire, on the part of the neighbours, to 'keep the peace'. So stop kidding yourself!
Marcos Alejandro is about to return the provinces Chaco, Formosa and Misiones to Paraguay, before Argentina is returned to Spain, who will then return all of Spanish America to the real owners, the indigenous people, ain't you?
Feb 06th, 2015 - 12:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Methinks Marcos Alejandro is a hipocrite.
11 Alejomartinez
Feb 06th, 2015 - 01:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Besides, you still insist on your Britishness! Let us go and live there to see how British you remain.”
You're missing the point, again.
Mainly, we are interested in our Falkland Islandness. Part of that, at the present time, is remaining a British Overseas Territory.
You can go and live in the Falklands. You can apply for any advertised job, and if there are no local qualified applicants, and you are the best applicant, you will be appointed. What more do you want? Seriously, I can't see what about this arrangement you want or expect us to change.
I'm a bit tired of your whingeing to be honest. Every single job that is now being done by people who have come from Chile or St Helena was also equally available to people from Argentina. Why are you not here? It's because you don't want to live here. It's your choice.
And you don't have any links or good relations with the Falklands; that is also your choice. But don't bring your non-existent relations with the mythical Malvinas into it; they don't exist.
@1:
Feb 06th, 2015 - 01:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Great idea! We are looking forward to have good relations with London soon after they return our stolen islands.”
Once again, you repeat the Malvinas Lie.
We never stole islands from you - you twice tried to steal from us and got the kicking you deserved, remember?
The fact that your country has yet to take the case to the ICJ verifies that your claim is a lie.
I'm asking you politely to please stop lying.
#17
Feb 06th, 2015 - 01:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are bit daft regarding the region's history. Chile gave up its claims over all of Eastern Patagonia as we were at war with Peru and Bolivia at the time. Prior to the Falklands war, Argentina came very close to invading Chile.
Now go back to under a rock where you belong...
@11 A sovereignty claim without a case is an illegitimate case and w o r t h l e s s
Feb 06th, 2015 - 01:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.academia.edu/10490336/Argentinas_Illegitimate_Sovereignty_Claims
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Feb 06th, 2015 - 02:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the followers of the former argentine land robbers, who robbed the land from the indigenious people and put them in poverty and malnutrition and death up to now have a big mouth regarding the falkland/malvinas islands.
that is the typical argentine behavior: blame others and forget your own fault. especially the actual ck governmental gang.
8 lsolde (#)
Feb 06th, 2015 - 03:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”l look forward to air links to Capetown(I feel so isolated)”
Me too señora Isolde, make sure to buy one way ticket :-)
Behold a prime example of the Argentinean education system.
Feb 06th, 2015 - 03:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Unable to actually make a valid point, Marcos takes a quote from someone AND CHANGES IT.
And then he probably ponders why no one believes Argentina and why in 2015 the Falkland Islanders still don't trust Argentina.
Because they lie.
@ 11 Alejomartinez
Feb 06th, 2015 - 04:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0More drivel from you. I recently brought to your attention the true history of the Falkland Islands by the academics Pepper and Pascoe - you really should read it!
the problem is latin america does not want any kind of link with a bunch of invaders / squatters who have militarized the south atlantic and have stolen part of our wonderful mar argentino.
Feb 06th, 2015 - 05:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0so, do not expect too much from the continent, you benny-hillbillies.
“...this is not a loss for us, but rather for those who supplied us before”, underlined Spink.”
”“support and logistics for the oil industry developing in the Falklands could have come from Chile or Argentina, ..., which is really sad for those two countries that at some time were trade partners”.
wot??
maybe this tw@t thinks that supplying a colony of 3k plebs is an interesting business?
lol
as for those tiny little wells with no commercial oil, they are insignificant to any of the countries of the region.
they are a waste of money and time.
more or less like the isleters.
28. Argentina should be doing as much trade as possible so you can pay for imports.
Feb 06th, 2015 - 06:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not looking to pretty there
Pretty soon every Rg is going to be fighting over the last bag of bean like their sisters in Venezuela.
Did anybody noticed the title of the original Spanish article?...:
Feb 06th, 2015 - 06:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“No hay intención de parte de Magallanes de fortalecer los lazos de acercamiento con las Islas”
http://www.laprensaaustral.cl/cronica/no-hay-intencin-de-parte-de-magallanes-de-fortalecer-los-lazos-d-48376
Or in Engrish..., for the monolingual Anglos in here...:
”There is NO INTENTION from Magallanes side to strengthen the ties of approachment to them Islands...”
Chuckle chuckle...
Rgs idiotic pride will make them starve...
Feb 06th, 2015 - 07:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0well even more of them as the poverty and starvation creeps in from the outer provinces.
Good news today for the Kelpers from their Engrish Mother Country..:
Feb 06th, 2015 - 08:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0UKIP Defence spokesman Mike Hookem MEP and former corporal in the “Royal Engrish Army” reserve..., seems concerned that Argentina might take advantage of Britain’s defence cuts to try something sneaky in the South Atlantic...
In an interview with The Independent, the former corporal accused France of arming Argentina as it “rattles the sabre” over the Falkland Islands...
Nonetheless, Mr Hookem went on to call for Britain to “renegotiate” its relationship with NATO to ensure it would assist the UK in any future conflict with Argentina over the Falkland Islands. “That’s something we are going to have to look at,” he said...
...his most passionate comments were reserved for the need to defend Britain’s remaining COLONIAL OUTPOSTS, as he repeatedly raised fears of Argentinian aggression in the South Atlantic...
His fondness for a bygone age extended to two other areas of defence policy. He questioned whether women should serve in combat roles....and, perhaps predictably, he said it would be “nice” to bring back mandatory national service.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/ukips-man-in-khaki-forget-russia-its-argentina-and-spain-we-need-to-fear-10030047.html
VOTE UKIP if U want to KEEP the UK...
Chuckle chuckle...
Day 3 without having the U$ to pay for imports...
Feb 06th, 2015 - 08:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Where oh where did the Chinese PayDay loan proceeds go???
First it was tampons I wonder what it will be next??
Toilet paper next.
Feb 06th, 2015 - 09:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They'll be sending sandpaper to the Casa Rosada so Kretina can wipe her posterior.
Why would the Falklanders possibly want to be good neighbors with the rotting roadkillians? lol.
Feb 06th, 2015 - 11:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In years to come, when the Islanders are oil rich, the Argies will be begging to be friends, just to get a loan.
Feb 07th, 2015 - 01:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0That day will come.
Yes nigel, I've been hearing that since I logged on the first time on this server... Meanwhile, the oil price continues to.... Lets say it's not helping you.
Feb 07th, 2015 - 11:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0Talk to Russia.
Stevie
Feb 07th, 2015 - 11:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0What happened?
We are still waiting for your 100% “free energy” wind turbines that will revolutionise the world. You told us that it was your destiny or some such rubbish?? Perhaps it was bullshit and you are a nobody....
I am also still waiting for the advent of your “political revolution” using a politics “nobody else had ever thought of or implemented” when are we going to see it?
Or was that more hyperbole....
Stevie the Walter Mitty hybolshitter
Greece, Spain... You are just impatient...
Feb 07th, 2015 - 11:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0;)
@39
Feb 07th, 2015 - 02:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A very fine deduction, and it is working for them is it? Don't think so. Theya re like the Latinos, so fucking lazy to get a job. I have worked and lived in both countries and I tell you they are ALMOST as bad as Argentina and I have lived there also.
39. We are all chavez
Feb 07th, 2015 - 04:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0idiot
Will Greece leave NATO?
Feb 07th, 2015 - 04:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No, that's just a rumour...
33 yankeeboy Fred
Feb 07th, 2015 - 06:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do you need tampons and not sure how to use them?
Nooo problema baldy, I just found and educational video just for you..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOC_ulfhpSg
Oh Marcos you joker.
Feb 07th, 2015 - 10:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You can't find any tampons.
@1
Feb 07th, 2015 - 10:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Great idea! We are looking forward to have good relations with London soon after they return our stolen islands.”
Go to the ICJ if you have a cast iron case.
45
Feb 07th, 2015 - 11:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Pete
Thank you for your tip “How to Recover Your Stolen Property”
Let me give you a tip also:
Eighth Commandment “Thou shalt not steal”
@46
Feb 08th, 2015 - 09:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0“ Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbours” “ Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house, wife ”etc. We now live in a modern world or some of us do. Argentina the Catholic country that takes catholicism to a new level. Trouble is they only pay token homage when required to. Fucking hypocrits.
@36
Feb 08th, 2015 - 01:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I guarantee you it won't.
Argentina gives a sh!t about relations with any other country. What does the rest of the world have to offer? Europe is finished, NorthAmoland is about to spectacularly crash (again), Russia and India are slowing, Japan has gone nowhere for ever, Africa??? Latin America never interested us.
Argentina will do fine alone, we don't care what the world thinks. And we don't want to follow the failed pathetic “western” system. Which is why we don't.
38 Monkeymagic
Feb 08th, 2015 - 09:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“We are still waiting for your 100% “free energy” wind turbines that will revolutionise the world”
I'm still waiting for him to roll out the usual line of “UK and US murdering scum, you kill women and children for oil”.................
I don't think he's mentioned it once on this thread....
Must be having a “senior” moment
@48
Feb 08th, 2015 - 10:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Which is why we don't”
And which is why you have gone into reverse since the early 20th century, and more importantly since Peronism.
“What does the rest of the world have to offer?”
Kwik fit might send you their spent tyres if you pay for the shipping?
Let's correct the record right here. Since 1839 rotting roadkill has breached seven(7) bond contracts. rotting roadkill has never cured any of these default events. rotting roadkill has been and is in an ongoing state of default.
Feb 09th, 2015 - 05:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0Tool
Feb 09th, 2015 - 07:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0Your countries really should stop killing women and children for oil...
@46:
Feb 09th, 2015 - 09:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0!“Thank you for your tip “How to Recover Your Stolen Property”
Let me give you a tip also:
Eighth Commandment “Thou shalt not steal”!
As golfcronie so eloquenty pointed out: “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbours”.
The Falklands are not yours, nor have they ever been.
The ICJ is the appropriate forum to resolve sovereignty disputes, if evidence of such exists.
The fact that your government is unwilling to take their claim to the appropriate venue is prima facie evidence that your claim is fake, therefore you are bearing false witness when you refer to British territory as ”stolen“ from you.
Of course, we both know that if Argentina loses such a case, they'd simply illegaly declare the decision ”null and void”, as they've done in the past.
rotting roadkill: Pay up.
Feb 09th, 2015 - 12:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Tobi, who will you trade with if all those countries you mention go into massive decline (your wish).
Feb 10th, 2015 - 04:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0Or
a) do you have no understanding of the current global economic situation of inter-dependence?
b) you think Argentina can be self-sufficient?
hahahaah!
You are the clown of Mercopress.
@48 It's all very well you saying:
Feb 10th, 2015 - 02:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Argentina will do fine alone, we don't care what the world thinks. And we don't want to follow the failed pathetic “western” system. Which is why we don't.”
But your people are voting with their feet. They are leaving for any job they can get abroad, many in Europe and America - the countries which you say are crashing.
The truth is that the signs of Argentina's failure are starting to show. When a country cannot import simple hygiene products to satisfy everyday needs, you know the rot has started.
It's all very well having a friend who can produce these products cheaply (like China) but when your own President insults them, or the bill has to be paid (and cannot) then they stop being your friends and want some other form of payment instead - such as land or natural resources.
In the meantime, it gets increasingly difficult to obtain those replacement parts from other countries. Machinery grinds to a halt, so do factories, or they have to make do with inefficient locally made products instead.
Take a look at Cuba as an example. Because they had no trade with the United States, they were forced to manufacture goods they could not buy from abroad and it's limited their ability to grow. They may be coming out of that shadow now, but it's taken its toll on them. For decades, all Cuban people dreamed of leaving Cuba to go to the United States. Many died in the process.
What Argentina is facing right now is the potential decline of your society to the point where the young have to make a serious choice. Leave the country or face a future with no job and little prospects.
I hope you are happy wiping your posterior with newspaper, because when the Chinese refuse to send over any more toilet paper - that's all you'll have.
Tobi : If Argentina is so self sufficient , why has Kretina sold the country to China for the next 50 years ?
Feb 11th, 2015 - 11:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0@46
Feb 13th, 2015 - 08:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Let me give you a tip also:
Eighth Commandment “Thou shalt not steal”
You are a little late-you should have given Argentina that advice in 1982.
No matter, the thieves were booted out after 74 days.
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