Argentina rallies regional support over Falklands

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

Latin American and Caribbean leaders have backed Argentina's claim over the Falklands, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has said.

At a regional summit in Cancun, Mexico, a document has reportedly been drafted giving Argentina unanimous support.

It comes a day after a British oil company began drilling for oil off the islands, a move Argentina objected to.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8529605.stm

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I'm guessing that eventually they'll do some sort of deal over this. If Argentina doesn't allow a terminal the UK will be stuck with much more expensive option of using either Chile or Uruguay as the alternative assuming that either of those countries would play ball.

[vadawg]

1. argentina can claim all it wants, the falklands are british territory like it or not

and the people who live there dont want to become argentinian, so tough luck argentina..

[truebrit71]

2. +1

..

[dipsydoodle]

3. Its an oddity from the past but thank you for your support

I'm sure Gordon Brown will wear it.

[vadawg]

4. and i will support him if the islands get invaded again, so will the majority of brits

remember this isnt a foreign country you are talking about these islands are as much a part of britain as the other islands that lie of the mainland, the falklanders are as british as the eastenders, or the dude from bristol..

[cowman]

8. I don't

think Argentina will try that again, they got their assess handed to them the last time, and the people living there made it very clear that they don't want to be citizens of Argentina. That being said, I hope they can work out something beneficial to both countries

[NoGOPZone]

14. They likely wouldn't have tried it the first time if they were led by someone

other than a fascist trying to distract from his massive domestic failures by starting a war.

[naaman fletcher]

5. Oddity of the past?

No Argentinians ever lived there. It is as much of an oddity if Argentina owns it as Britain. There are no native people there, and the people that live there NOT A SINGLE ONE wants to be Argentinian.

[vadawg]

6. yup they see themselves as british as the next guy, i dont get why people dont see this..

[Igel]

7. Many things are oddities from the past.

Cacti, for instance. Or France's borders. The presence of Circassians in the Levant. Burushaski. The second genitive in Russian. Men's clothes having buttons on the left and not the right. The species-specificity of human body lice.

Doesn't mean that they're to be ignored. Just that a lot of things in the present derive from the past.

In the case of the Falklands, you'd think that self-determination would count, because while Argentine claims are equally an oddity from the past the people actually on the Falklands are curiously entirely in the present.

[yava]

13. What ever the evil nature of colonialism may be,

Argentina was also born from it.
The notion that an island belongs to a country if no other country is closer than 500 miles from it is strange and stupid.

[Arctic Dave]

9. Drilling 62 miles offshore from the island.

So the island owns more ocean then the land itself.

[Blue_Tires]

10. i think with the timing it's a clever ploy

to get the national team hyped up for the World Cup...:crazy:

[ikri]

11. Britain and Argentina HAD a deal, Argentina backed out

In 1995 Britain & Argentina reached an agreement to search for oil around the islands, Argentina would have received 49% the oil rights. However, in 2007 Argentina backed out of the agreement, now they're pissed that they might lose out on oil revenues.

Besides which, Argentina should be careful about accusing others of stealing sovereign territory unless they want people to bring up the huge swathes of Paraguay that are still in Argentinian hands following the War of the Triple Alliance.

[Socal31]

12. With all of the troubles in South America....

this is what they are wasting time on?