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Falklands: Macri and Theresa May agree “it's time to begin talking”
Argentine president Mauricio Macri told British Prime Minister Theresa May he was ready to begin an open dialogue on the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty, which he described as “the main issue” of bilateral relations. According to Argentine media reports, Theresa May said that yes, “it was time to begin talking”. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesLoad of garbage. He needs a hearing aid.
Sep 21st, 2016 - 10:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/221865/macri%E2%80%99s-claims-over-malvinas-talks-denied-by-malcorra
Sep 21st, 2016 - 10:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0hmmm
He needs to lay off the booze.
Sep 21st, 2016 - 12:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And grow a pair and tell the 15M Peronistas the truth, but that will never happen.
Macri is the President of all Argentines so he has to represent them all. If 15m believe the Malvinas myth (and it is not surprising since they have been brainwashed from birth) he has to appear to speak for them. The majority that voted Macri in and CFK out would have been a mixture of believers and non-believers. It is very clever of Macri to pretend that this 'one minute, very casual discussion' where May agreed to talk actually had anything to do with the Falklands sovereignty. It didn't. However, if it keeps the masses on his side he might get a second term.
Sep 21st, 2016 - 03:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Theresa May is not going to propose “Sovereignty Talks” on the Falklands, I refuse to believe she would be so stupid.
Sep 21st, 2016 - 03:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Theresa is on record of praising Sharia! And for that reason alone she has already fallen out with a lot of patriotic people and many associated with the military... and she is a woman .. one wonders what she has inside her head.. if she reads the news.. beggars belief !
Frankly I don't think that these rumours are true or that they bind the UK in any way as it would be some shot in the foot by what would be then unmistakably an imbecile.
It's matter of time, old England has more important things to worry about than a group of islands 14000 km away from London.
Sep 21st, 2016 - 05:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This is purely a PR exercise by the Arg. Gov. Following the last fews days events, it is obvious that this is 'food for the masses' back home. An attempt to claw back some points for Marci after the bilateral talks weren't seen in good light by the people or the government.
Sep 21st, 2016 - 05:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Throw in an 'off the cuff' comment following a quick informal chat that was supposed to have taken place at a lunch regarding the Falklands and the Arg. press are creaming their pants, the people are happy once again. They realised they messed up with the joint statement, they judged the home crown wrongly. Now they are playing catchup in true Argentinian manner.
Now all they have to do is wait a while, then tell the Arg. press that the UK (even though the PM promised) refuses to talk about the Falklands sovereignty and are going back on their word.
'Blame the others' , 'it's not our fault', 'all we want to do is talk'. The press are happy, the people are happy and the government gets out of a hole they dug themselves into.
The only problem is, the rest of the world are not as easily fooled as the 15m Peronists. Externally this looks like a shambles, with the left foot not knowing what the right foot is doing, making statements that are the challenged by your own people and quoting conversations without formal record, won't wash with the rest of the world, as we are, unfortunately for Argentina, rational.
Marcos- up the creek as usual. I am not long back from a trip to UK- most folks pretty confident- businesses doing well and growing, overseas investment still coming in, employment record numbers in work and very low out of work, wages up this year, inflation low.
Sep 21st, 2016 - 05:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0ASs regards talks - yes no doubt Theresa May said a polit yes - top talks about UK-Arg trade etc etc - and yes to talks on starting to defrost the 14yr fu** up over the Falklands caused 100% by the K dynasty with mutual areas of co-operation involving the Islands Govt that do NOT impinge on either,s Sov claim. Not Sov talks at all!
Do try and catch up with reality - even if you live in a country of fantasia.
The U.K. doesn't have to worry about the Falklands as they are safe and in the hands of the Falkland Islanders as they should be. They have the full backing of the U.K. defence forces should it be necessary but, lets face it, Argentina has more important things to worry about than another invasion. (Not that they even have the capability)
Sep 21st, 2016 - 05:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Macri and Theresa May agree “it's time to begin talking”
Sep 21st, 2016 - 06:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0first the rest of us have heard of this,
the Argentina leaders are looking rather silly and foolish with these dream they keep having.
As some have rightly said, the Falkland's are quite safe.
Both sides need to sign an agreement stating the Falkland Islands are a part of Argentina with the right to secede from Argentina and choose to affiliate with Great Britain (or with Argentina, if they so choose).
Sep 21st, 2016 - 07:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@6 Marquitos Alejandrito
Sep 21st, 2016 - 08:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nabito - the Falkland Islands are just as close to us as are the Isle of Wight, the Islae of Man and the Channel Islands. We are concerned about all of them, nene.
Argentine citizens will have to begin asking themselves who they voted in as president after this monumental fiasco.
Sep 21st, 2016 - 08:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A president spreading nonsense about such a sensitive issue only to be corrected by Malcorra borders on childish behaviour.
Of course, Macri knows the declaration he shared with the U.K. is going to hurt his image--it has already started--and he will be trying his best to distract the public.
What a shame.
@11 Why? They have never been a part of Argentina and the Islanders held a referendum stating they wished to remain a BOT. Nothing to discuss or sign.
Sep 21st, 2016 - 08:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why would FI want to join up with a third-world bankrupt country
Sep 21st, 2016 - 08:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Marcos @65 Brook Street. We are not worried about the Falkland Islands or our other islands in tbe South Atlantic or Queen Elizabeth Land. Tbey are all safe and tbriving
Sep 21st, 2016 - 09:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mr. Massot;
Sep 21st, 2016 - 10:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“and he will be trying his best to distract the public”
Yes, most likely with Economic and Financial reforms, resulting in business investment and jobs.
Macri hears what he wants to hear, and so conveniently just before his Foreign Minister is due to appear before the Foreign Affairs Committee.
Sep 21st, 2016 - 11:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He was quickly shot down by Minister Malcorra, and now this -
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1939933-malvinas-londres-desmiente-a-macri-y-asegura-que-may-no-hablo-con-el-de-soberania
6 Marcos Alejandro
Sep 22nd, 2016 - 10:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0that`s what Galteri said in 1982 “ they are to far away” he was wrong! do Argentines learn nothing from your past history? any British Government
that hands over the Falklands without the approval of the islanders commits political suicide! their are no political parties in the UK willing to face oblivion for Argentina`s cause. The very people you need to impress are the islanders they have the final say not May not the British government!
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Sep 22nd, 2016 - 01:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the Falkland Islands are a part of Argentina ,,,,
The Falkland's are British, always were and always will be as long as they wish it,
England will return the Malvinas within 25 years.
Sep 24th, 2016 - 01:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0#17 Kanye
Sep 25th, 2016 - 08:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0”(Macri will do) Economic and Financial reforms, resulting in business investment and jobs.“
Don't you ever tire of writing fiction?
Didn't you read in another MP article:
”Argentina’s recession deepened in the second quarter as President Mauricio Macri’s efforts to implement free-market reform exacerbated an already flagging economy.
“GDP fell 3.4% from the same period a year earlier, the largest year-on-year contraction in almost two years...”
And this is not a Macri's failure. On the contrary, it follows to the letter the goal to bring unemployment up to 15 per cent, which will push wages down and make Argentina “competitive” which is the signal investors are waiting to hear.
Not an easy task, as Argentines have become strangely “addicted” to their wage levels.
Seems many rehab clinics are needed to treat Argentines of this dangerous dellusion.
Hepatitis
Sep 25th, 2016 - 12:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0England cannot “return” the Malvinas, you silly little person!
(Inglaterra no puede “retornar” las Falkland Islands, bobito/bobita!)
Only the inhabitants of the archipelago are in the position to make decisions about its future.
NABITA/NABITO
SOONER OR LATER.
Sep 25th, 2016 - 02:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If i were mediocre like some people, i would think that most of the british people, and the islanders are brainwashed from birth to believe that the question of the sovereignty must be discussed only if the people from the islands wish it. However this cause is much more complicated, neather the islanders nor the british are idiots, but this is a hard dispute, and it's more than obvious that they will continue to do all they can to keep on depriving Arg. from it's sovereign rights over the islands.
When our country says that the islanders can't have the right to self determination, it's not a caprice, if we say that it would be absolutely unfair to apply that right for the islanders, is because since the british usurpation in 1833, such a powerful nation like the U. K. has always deprived Arg. of exercising it's sovereign rights over the Malvinas, with the exception of the 76 days of the invasion ordered by the criminal junta, in this context, it's not necesary to be too smart to realize that it was pretty evident that the islanders were going to choose to remain under british government only.
Since 2009 i have mentioned in many of my comments in mercopress about the weak and the strong aspects of both parts of the conflict, in fact, in different opportunities i said that Arg.suggested taking the case to and arbitration in 1884 and in 1888, which was rejected by the U. K., but Britain manifested in 1947 that it would be disposed to take the cases of the dependencies from the islands (South Georgia and Sandwich) to an arbitration, but it didn't include the Malvinas. After that year, none of both nations proposed again to take the case to the I. C. J., perhaps both aren't sure of getting a positive result, but sooner or later, they'll have to do it, beyond the shameful capitulation of our actual government, which members are much more interested in business than in sovereignty, and despite the last embarrasing situation of the new administration.
Thanks Axle, we haven't had a good laugh for a week! At least not since Stink claimed he knew what a Rudge was in a conversation with his poodle. Bahahahaha!
Sep 25th, 2016 - 04:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@24 axel arg
Sep 25th, 2016 - 05:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“beyond the shameful capitulation of our actual government, which members are much more interested in business than in sovereignty, and despite the last embarrasing situation of the new administration.”
Since there has been no progress on sovereignty for 34 years, why wouldn't the pro-business government prefer to focus on business? Anyway, are you unhappy with the actual agreement Malcorra proposed or are you unhappy they are agreeing anything at all?
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Sep 25th, 2016 - 05:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do you actually believe all that? there is no political party in the UK that will hand the islands to Argentina without the consent of the people who live there. The only option for Argentina is ICJ otherwise force of arms and that didn`t work out to well the last time. I think it will be a lot later than Argentines can imagine.
I must be feeling ill... I've seen so many pictures of the multiple chinned midget Malcorra recently I'm starting to fancy her... At least I don't fancy TMBOA. (If I ever do, please shoot me)
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