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Thursday, January 3, 2013

This time we have an Anglophobe President - UK rebuffs Argentina on negotiations over Falkland Islands

Obama declared neutrality on the Falklands. Whose side is he on after all?
Unfortunately, there appears to be less iron will in Britain now. m/r

UK rebuffs Argentina on negotiations over Falkland Islands « Hot Air

POSTED JANUARY 3, 2013 BY ED MORRISSEY



Call it Madison Avenue diplomacy, or at least the London equivalent of Madison Avenue.  Argentina’s president bought ad space in left-leaning British newspapers to publish an open letter to Prime Minister David Cameron, urging him to open negotiations on the transfer of sovereignty of the Falkland Islands.  Instead, Cameron sent a stark warning in reply that the UK “would do everything to protect the interests of the Falkland Islanders”:
In an open letter to Mr Cameron, published as an advert in the Guardian newspaper and the Independent, President Fernandez repeats calls for the islands – which are known as the Malvinas in Argentina – to come under the sovereignty of her nation.
The Argentine president says the islands were forcibly stripped from Argentina in “a blatant exercise of 19th Century colonialism”.
Downing Street said the prime minister would “do everything to protect the interests of the Falklands islanders.”
Mr Cameron’s spokesman said the people of the Falklands had shown “a clear desire to remain British” and the Argentine government should respect their right to self determination.
It’s difficult to know whether Argentinian president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner wants to be taken seriously, or just posture for domestic purposes. 
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