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Macri at UN reaffirms Argentine sovereignty over Falklands, but also praises positive dialogue with UK
President Mauricio Macri reaffirmed, once again, “Argentina's legitimate and imprescriptible sovereign rights over the Malvinas, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands and their surrounding maritime spaces”, in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules'President Mauricio Macri reaffirmed, once again, “Argentina's legitimate and imprescriptible sovereign rights over the Malvinas, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands and their surrounding maritime spaces”, in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.'
Sep 26th, 2018 - 08:45 am - Link - Report abuse +4Based on what?
Still stuck in 1965?
UN 2065 XX from 1965 was killed off by the development of human rights -'interests if inhabitants' been replaced by 'inalienable rights.' UNGA Resolution 2065 (XX) Question of the Falkland Islands (2 pgs):
https://www.academia.edu/10573354/UNGA_2065_XX_Question_of_The_Falkland_Islands_16_Dec_1965
Mr Macri and Co should read that all again:
Sep 26th, 2018 - 03:22 pm - Link - Report abuse +3https://www.outdoorrevival.com/travel/south-georgia-south-sandwich-islands-isolated-neighbors-antarctic.html
Come on, guys, don't get all worked out by Macri's 60 seconds of Malvinas talk.
Sep 26th, 2018 - 05:02 pm - Link - Report abuse -4You know well that our dear president will lose his pinky rather than saying anything mildly disagreeable about the U.K., the U.S. or any other central country for that matter.
If he says anything at all is because no Argentine president will risk re-election by dropping the Malvinas claim.
Your interests will be better met by supporting Macri because you run no risks of any serious attempt to get back the islands while he is in charge. After him...we don't know.
The economy is crashing again. The inflation is off the graph again. The peso is becoming worthless again. Investors are fleeing again. Unemployment is soaring again. Poverty is increasing again. The country is going out on strike again.
Sep 26th, 2018 - 06:11 pm - Link - Report abuse +5What to do?
Whinge about the “Malvinas” !
And you wonder why nobody takes these people seriously.
It is actually the other way around. To Argentina the islands are not a pond on a game board they “want to have” . The islands are a territory Argentina denounces was usurped and taken from the country in 1833. Macri is playing down the dispute to play along with Britain's game of blackmailing 'dispute' for 'benefits', as it has always done for the last 188 years. Britain needs to man up to the accountability of having put the Islanders in the predicament they have against Argentina, and stop hiding behind this ridiculous and world insulting disfiguration of the proper definitions regarding “self determination rights”. No group of people independently have any power to suppress any country's sovereignty dispute when that denouncement concerns a government they do not hold in their own hands. The people of the Islands come second to the sovereignty dispute between their ruling government and another government, they must first expect Argentina and London to work out their quarrel before they can decide what rights Argentina may have or not have on the islands they live on. Quit lying and cheating even at the highest levels of organization, Scallies ! We are nearly 8 billion people in the world, about 40 to 80 leading nations . Yet your country's people act like they are entitled to first dibs for everywhere and everything while mocking laughing at and belittling nearly every nation in the world, including those that are putting food on your plates, and gasoline in your engines, leaches of the planet. You take everything and give nothing. ... And don't even start on the ”we give money bullsh**! Money and armament is what you use to control dominate and manipulate the world.
Sep 27th, 2018 - 12:52 am - Link - Report abuse -8Like all before, when in trouble, fall back on the old Malvinas Claim.
Sep 27th, 2018 - 03:10 am - Link - Report abuse +5@ML
Sep 27th, 2018 - 03:58 am - Link - Report abuse -6”The economy is crashing again...what to do...Whinge about the “Malvinas” !
Oh come on. I know your country officially supports the UK usurpation of Malvinas, however do you really need to suck up to the kelpers at every possible occasion?
Oh, and 'these people,' you know well where they tell you to go. Can't print it though.
your support for poor UK and their kelper warm bodies?
EM & PE At least we live in the REAL world, your countries are always looking to blame other countries as you both do. Argentina is in dire straits and what do the unions do ( commie bastards ) go on strike and make it worse. God help the UK if that commie bastard Corbyn gets in power. Fortuneately we see through his rhetoric.
Sep 27th, 2018 - 07:36 am - Link - Report abuse +5Is this really news? I thought Argentina had brought it up at the UN every year since the war?
Sep 27th, 2018 - 08:40 am - Link - Report abuse +1@EM
“I know your country officially supports...”
Since ML won't admit what country he comes from, I'm curious which one you're referring to here. Also, doesn't your adopted country officially support it too?
Patrick Edgar - you are a bore! Your rhetoric means nothing and gathers no support! Please go away!
Sep 27th, 2018 - 04:56 pm - Link - Report abuse +2@GC
Sep 27th, 2018 - 08:13 pm - Link - Report abuse -4“...we live in the REAL world, your countries are always looking to blame other countries...”
I don't know where that “REAL world” you claim to live in is -- and I couldn't care less.
Now, you blame the unions (oh the horror) for part of Argentina's woes. The unions, just in case you didn't know, are fighting deteriorating economic conditions imposed by Macri to the working classes. They are also fighting against the government's agreement with the IMF.
Just in case you ignore it, unions have every right to act in defense of their members. In Argentina some people support that, some do not. However, not one is calling the unions “commie bastards.” Not sir. The nick has to come from an sclerosed dinosaur whose mind stopped functioning just before the Cold War ended. It also comes from three other MP commentators whose minds are about at the same level.
What a “meeting of the minds.”
@Gordo1:
Before chasing away fellow contributors, you should have the fortitude of putting up a few dollars and purchase MP. Then you do as you please. In the meantime, you are just another contributor--and not a brilliant one mind you.
The Argentine President has to say that in the UN GA, even if he do not really believe in it himself. It is mostly for domestic consumption. The hard core malvinistas already hate him, but if he drops the claim altogether it could be dangerous. He cannot just say what he said long before he became president, that he did not understand the claim. That would be political suicide.
Sep 27th, 2018 - 10:48 pm - Link - Report abuse +3Patrick, excuse me, are you saying you dont like us?
Sep 28th, 2018 - 12:36 pm - Link - Report abuse +2@PE
Sep 30th, 2018 - 09:11 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Looks like Macri lost a good opportunity to keep his mouth shut.....so did you.
Enrique Massot
Oct 03rd, 2018 - 06:19 am - Link - Report abuse +1“Before chasing away fellow contributors”
Patrick Edgar is ONE person!
Reekio,
Oct 03rd, 2018 - 05:53 pm - Link - Report abuse +2”Now, you blame the unions (oh the horror) for part of Argentina's woes. Just in case you ignore it, unions have every right to act in defense of their members.”
Yes, they do. But there is no doubt that the union leaders in Argentina have a lot of power. This can be a problem if they use that power for political reasons rather defending their members. This was the case with unions in the UK up until the 80s and came to a head when Arthur Scargill tried to bring down the Thatcher government by bringing his miners out on strike. It didn't end well for him and laws were introduced to change how unions could operate. Now, instead of the union leaders being able to call their members out on strike without any notice, they have to have a ballot of the workers to agree on strike action first. So, the unions still protect their members and the members still have the right to strike, but it is now a democratic process. The leaders have lost the power they had previously to cripple industry for political reasons.
Don't you think it would be a good idea if Argentina had similar laws?
Or do you support the ability of a few (usually very rich) union leaders to prevent their members from working and engage in sedition?
I agree with golfcronie's point but would replace “unions” with “union leaders who will do anything to bring down Macri-even if it isn't in the long term interests of their members”.
“The unions are fighting deteriorating economic conditions imposed by Macri to the working classes.”
They are entitled to an opinion, but will striking help? Does it help the working classes if they get paid less because they aren't working?
“They are also fighting against the government's agreement with the IMF.”
Again, they are entitled to their opinion, but this a further step removed from improving their worker's conditions.
The unions should be primarily negotiating with the employers for better conditions for their members, NOT the government.
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