According to Argentina’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Héctor Timerman, the Falklands/Malvinas Islands, will be claimed by Argentina within the next 20 years.
Timerman – ONU (Photo: MRECIC ARG, on Flickr)
Timerman, who arrived in London yesterday to begin talks with the UK government about the sovereignty of the islands, told the Guardian newspaper that the ongoing debate is “a colonial issue.”
“I don’t think it will take another 20 years,” Timerman said. “I think that the world is going through a process of understanding more and more that this is a colonial issue.”
Timerman refused to meet with British Foreign Secretary William Hague to begin the discussions, after Foreign Office officials required the attendance of the islands’ representatives. However, Timerman accused Hague of being uncooperative and expressed his disappointment in being unable to discuss the sovereignty issues “face to face.”
“When we sit down we will discuss everything that has to be discussed, not before. You don’t discuss through the media. You discuss face to face. That is why I ask for a meeting with William Hague and he refused. If I can sit down with him, he will know what we think, but he refuses to sit down with us.”
He also attacked the UK government for taking Argentina’s “natural resources away,” as well as “using the people living in the islands for political [reasons] and to have access to oil and natural resources,” which he stressed belong to the Argentine people.
During the interview, he also he noted that if Argentina claimed the Falklands/Malvinas, its citizens would continue “their way of life, their language, and right to remain British citizens”.
Timerman has zero respect for the people who actually live on the islands. Galtieri had a plan to forcibly remove the inhabitants and that’s what this fanatic would do as well. The UK has to protect them from this threat.
Incidently the islands would probably be under Argentinian jurisdiction by now if they had not invaded but had proceeded in a civilised way.
What I’d like to know is how Argentina will take over the Falklands other than by another military adventure. Since Timerman isn’t Christian that rules out direct intervention by the Holy Virgin of Lujan. Perhaps if CFK organized more of those indignant, flag-burning, anti-British, anti-pirate demonstrations outside the British Embassy or British-owned companies, hell any foreign company, those trembling, sniveling, plutocrats will skulk back to London, begging the government to abandon the Falklands. That way the thieving capitalists exploiters can continue operating unmolested in South America’s great workers’ paradise. Meanwhile, those wind blown Kelpers in their Wellington boots and windbreakers, surrounded by all those sheep and penguins, will occasionally look out towards South America and level curses at the “Bloody Argies.”