Argentinean Ambassador Jorge Argüello discussed his country’s territorial dispute with Britain over an archipelago off the Argentine coast over lunch with students and faculty in International House on Tuesday.
Opening with an account of Argentina’s recent economic history, Arguello went on to outline several topics central to both Argentine domestic and foreign policy. His talk focused, however, on the territorial dispute between Britain and Argentina surrounding Las Malvinas (the Falkland Islands), a sparsely populated archipelago off the Argentine coast that has been under British rule since 1833.
After roughly outlining the conflict as a “top diplomatic priority,” Argüello highlighted several important actions that Argentina has taken in its dealings with the Falklands.
“We need political will on both sides to move forward. We are doing our best. We are displaying a diplomatic strategy in every capital in the world where we have representation. We are having informal conversations with both capitals.” Argüello later said, “We are not asking you to return the Islands, just for a return to dialogue, because that is the only mechanism we see to find a final solution.”
Although advocating a peaceful solution, his opinion regarding the conflict remained clear. “The Malvinas Islands are located in the South Atlantic. They are only 348 miles away from Argentina and they are 8,700 miles away from London. 8,700 miles,” he quipped.
With the 180th anniversary of British control over the Falklands in close sight, the territorial dispute between Argentina and the United Kingdom remains tense. Despite stressing the importance of the Falklands’ right to self-determination (mentioned in a clause in the revised 1994 Argentine Constitution), Argüello asserted that in this embittered dispute over the Falkland Islands, his country ultimately deserves full custody.
“We need political will on both sides to move forward. We are doing our best. We are displaying a diplomatic strategy in every capital in the world where we have representation. We are having informal conversations with both capitals.”
- but the entire government refuses to speak to any of the Islanders represetatives.
“We are not asking you to return the Islands, just for a return to dialogue, because that is the only mechanism we see to find a final solution.”
- You never owned the Islands, the British first settled the Islands 50 years before your country existed. Your constitution says that the recovery of the territories are a permanent goal of the Argentine people any official that agrees to talks that leads to a settlement that doesn’t transfer sovereignty to Argentina violates your constitution.
“Despite stressing the importance of the Falklands’ right to self-determination (mentioned in a clause in the revised 1994 Argentine Constitution), Argüello asserted that in this embittered dispute over the Falkland Islands, his country ultimately deserves full custody.”
- If you beleive in the Islanders right to self determination you will no doubt send observers to next years referendum and respect its outcome. Instead your ministers have described it as “a parody”.
las Malvinas son británicas
Dont believe a single word from arguello.
argentina is a fraud country
LA CAMPORA & VATAYON MILITANTE
2 TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS SPONSORED BY THE PRESIDENT OF ARGENTINA CRISTINA FERNANDEZ DE KIRCHNER
LA CAMPORA – a semi military style terrorist organization that is led by Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s son – MaximoKirchner. It is named after former a known Argentine terrorist of the Peronist political party former president Héctor José Cámpora. Although it was established in 2003, it became politically influential after the death and state funeral of Néstor Kirchner. Maximo Kirchner used money that his father Nestor Kirchner left him in his will to further the organization and take part in expropiations of private property, the oil company YPF, which Argentina expropiated (stole) from the government of Spain, and Aerolineas Argentinas also expropiated (stolen) from the government of Spain.
The airline is going to be renamed “Aerocamporas Argentinas” by the end of the year. They have already begun to repaint the logo on the airplanes at a cost of $400,000 US dollars each. La Campora hopes to imitate the terrorist organization to which Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner belonged to when she was younger, called Montoneros. Montoneros was responsable for kidnappings, murders, armed robberies of business owners and members of the opposition government in Argentina during the 1970s. The group vindicates the actions of the guerilla group Montoneros, and thus was named after Héctor José Cámpora, who had favored them. However, most members are too young to know first-hand about the 1970 conflicts in Argentina, but follow their methodologies of state sponsored terrorism. They go into schools and “indoctrinate” children and make them wear La Campora t-shirts, give them reading material and force them to participate in rallies promoting their demagoguery and any decisions made by Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. The methodology of the modern group is very similar to the Montoneros, aiming to harass, destroy and silence critics of the Kirchner administration and promote their allies in blogs, Facebook, Twitter and other social networks on the internet and to steadily encroach on key positions in the state. After the death of Néstor Kirchner, Cristina Fernández instructed that the lists of candidates for provincial legislators included at least five members of the Cámpora.
VATAYON MILITANTE – The Argentine government under Cristina Fernandez de Kircher and The Argentine National penitentiary service, takes inmates out of jail without judicial permission, to attend and participate in political events of Kirchner. The prisoners are paid an “allowance” of $2700 per month for joining this political group. The creation of this Vatayon militante group which are CONVICTED AND INCARCERATED for everything from murderer to armed robbery is becoming the Kirchner government’s militant force of the future. If things get rough for Cristina, these prisoners have nothing to lose for defending the Kirchner movement with violence. They also have access to guns and drugs, and prostitues all courtesy of the Kirchner government. The prisoners who are chosen attend these events, is left up to the to the head of the Argentine National Penitentiary Service, Victor Hortel who is a very close ally of Cristina’s government He is a former prisoner himself and has very close ties with prison gangs, and has been known to release prisoners at night to go out to steal and even kill, in exchange for drugs, sex and money. Rewarding criminals and prisoners for political purposes, violating all sorts of rules and laws, is proof of the form of government that Argentina is living with and will only get worse in the months and years ahead, especially if Cristina moved forward with her proposal to change the Argentine constitution to allow for her re-re-election for an unlimited amount of presidential terms.
See these documentaries to see the scary truth as to what is going on in Argentina:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7GPAR4rdko
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7sfYGJobII
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcmymeZf8jM
Rico, the islanders have as much right to self-determination as Mexican communities in the US. If they have a referendum to declare their allegiance to Mexico and their districts as Mexican territory, neither the US nor the UK would respect their wishes.
Clematys – Self determination is a Human Right set out in the UN Charter. If the majority of the citizens of the US wished their country to become part of Mexico (and Mexico wanted the US to become part of Mexico) then no-one should stop them. Certainly as long as any referendum was fair the UK would not stop them.
However this is a hypothetical that is not likely to come true.
The Falkland Islands is a real situation and the people deserve to have their human rights protected.
You are quite wrong. The Mexican communities have presumably already sworn allegiance to the USA when they take citizenship of your country. The Falkland Islanders have been resident since before Argentina became a country.
Clematys, the Mexican communities are living on US territory, the Falkland islanders are not living on Argentine territory.
Does anyone else get a slightly nervous twitch when Argentina starts talking about “a final solution” or is it just me?
It’s not like the Argentine government would ever lend a sympathetic ear to Joseph Mengele and co.
Ohhhhh no wait, they already have.