ARGENTINA/FILE: Argentina sends Foreign Minster Hector Timerman to UN Security Council in protest of British role in Falklands.

Record ID: 446803

  • Title: ARGENTINA/FILE: Argentina sends Foreign Minster Hector Timerman to UN Security Council in protest of British role in Falklands.
  • Date: 11th February 2012
  • Summary: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (RECENT) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR HOUSE OF GOVERNMENT ILLUMINATED AT NIGHT
  • Embargoed: 26th February 2012 12:00
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  • Location: Argentina
  • Country: Argentina
  • Topics: International Relations,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA297ECS576L5VZUTVPAP8AL739
  • Story Text: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez confirmed on Thursday (February 9) Foreign Minister Hector Timerman's trip to present the country's complaint to the U.N. Security Council's president on Friday, as tension rises before the 30th anniversary of the Falklands war this year.
    "In a few hours, at 9:30 (local time), our foreign minister leaves for New York to talk before the United Nations about the militarization and what was introduced, and also about the nuclear weapons in the area," she said.
    Fernandez has accused Britain of "militarizing the South Atlantic" and had said she would complain to the United Nations but Britain has denied militarizing the South Atlantic and says its "defensive posture" in the islands remains unchanged.
    Prime Minister David Cameron hit back at Argentina, saying islanders would have London's backing for as long as they wished to remain British.
    Britain went to war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands, called Las Malvinas in Argentina, in 1982. London has refused to start talks on sovereignty with Argentina unless the roughly 3,000 islanders want them.
    A war of words between the two governments has escalated in recent months. Oil exploration by British companies off the islands has raised the stakes.
    Fernandez has condemned British plans to deploy one of its most advanced destroyers, HMS Dauntless, to the area. She has also criticised the posting of Prince William, second in line to the British throne, to the islands as a military search-and-rescue pilot.
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