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Argentine ambassador denies any links between Falklands issue and Malcorra's frustrated UN bid
“Malcorra's veto has to do with the candidate” and certainly “not with the Argentina/UK question over Malvinas”, 'said ambassador Sersale di Cerisano Argentine ambassador in UK on Monday rejected pointblank that the veto to foreign minister Susana Malcorra's UN Secretary General candidacy could have been linked in any way to the Falklands/Malvinas dispute between UK and Argentina.
“It has been said that the veto had to do with the Malvinas question, but you require a deep analysis of what means to be a UN Secretary General and which interests are at stake for those countries that have veto power”, said ambassador Carlos Sersale di Cerisano from London in an interview with a Buenos Aires radio station.
“Malcorra's veto has to do with the candidate” and certainly “not with the Argentina/UK question over Malvinas”, and there are “many other elements” which are taken into account in such an election, “and there will always be candidate-vetoes from those who feel it could affect their interests”, added the diplomat.
Sersale di Cerisano said that if you analyze the profile of Antonio Guterres, who last Thursday was officially recommended by the Security Council to occupy the UN main post as of next January, “he was always the French candidate”, one of the five members with veto power, because he is “Socialist, Portugal a member of NATO and because he is closely linked to that country's interests”.
The ambassador recalled that the former Portuguese Prime minister was also UN High Commissioner for Refugees, which deals with one of the main UN agenda issues such as preventing conflicts and conflicts.
Besides, “the Secretary General is not the president of the world, he is someone the countries choose to solve those problems which they decide”, pointed out Sersale di Cerisano who also discarded there was a gender element in Malcorra's defeat.
The ambassador said that Guterres is an “excellent candidate”, since the “UN nowadays has as main issues the refugees, how to prevent conflicts, how to address post/conflict situations, and that has a great influence” in the decision making process. “He has been an excellent commissioner and Argentina will support him in all his duties”.
Finally Sersale di Cerisano specifically on the Falklands issue ratified Argentina's sovereignty claim, and “we have set the bases on which we expect to build dialogue so that at some point the issue can be solved”.
“Argentina is asking the UK to abide by the General Assembly resolution calling on both countries to sit and dialogue. But the UK says no, and there is nothing at all the Secretary General can do if countries don't ask for it specifically”.
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Read all commentsand certainly “not with the Argentina/UK question over Malvinas”, said the ambassador.
Oct 11th, 2016 - 08:35 am +6Argentina's Falklands' claim is dead in the water. She has never legally possessed the islands -
Inheritance From Spain – Uti Possidetis Juris
The concept that Argentina had inherited the Falkland Islands from Spain is false. The law of the time did not accept inheritance without settlement and stated that 'an unopposed settlement of some years was necessary” before sovereignty was accepted. (The Law of Nations, Vattel, Cpt XI, p337) Vernet had sought acquiescence from the British consul in BUENOS AIRES on two occasions before establishing “his” colonies and the British protested when he was appointed military and political governor by the BA. Authorities. Jewett had no settlement. The concept of uti possidetis juris (inheritance of Spain) is only customary international law, applicable to those who choose to use it. Great Britain, France and Brazil have never opted to use uti possidetis juris and UPJ has “never” be used in “any” court or tribunal ”without the consent of both parties''.
legal judgments and opinions throughout the years have been pretty consistent with this view:
https://www.academia.edu/28967823/Falklands_Uti_Possidetis_Juris
Time for Argentina to drop the claim and move on.
I wonder whether the person responsible for the previous post knows what the word “squatters” means?
Oct 12th, 2016 - 06:21 pm +5”....so that at some point the issue can be solved”.
Oct 11th, 2016 - 12:05 pm +4So by solved you mean handed over to Argentina?
In the real world, the problem can be solved by letting the people (who's homes you wish to steal) make their own decisions for the future. A lot easier, less money and morally and ethically the only thing to do in 2016. Well assuming you are a country that wants to be taken seriously rather than laughed at......
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