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Argentine President: British South Atlantic Militarization Threatens World Peace
8 February 2012
Argentina’s Foreign Minister has been instructed to file a formal complaint with the United Nations Security Council and General Assembly against Great Britain’s militarization of the South Atlantic, which is "a grave risk to international security" in this time of global crisis, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announced yesterday, in a special address to the nation, delivered from the "Hall of the Latin American Patriots" in the seat of government. She was accompanied by representatives of the country’s leading political parties, trade unions, industries, provinces, veterans of the Malvinas War, and others, because, as she said, she was speaking as President of 40 million Argentines, of State policy. The Argentine President’s speech put the lie to British propaganda that their military deployments in that region — which so far include building a large military base on St. Helen’s Island, and sending in a destroyer and a nuclear submarine — were justified as a response to Argentine military plans, rumored widely in London’s press. Argentina will answer Britain’s colonial provocations politically and diplomatically only, she declared. The British decision to send "an immense and very modern destroyer" — its very name says it all, she noted — to the South Atlantic, accompanied by the royal heir, wearing a military uniform, is "a grave risk to international security in moments in which we see that ... situations are developing in other countries and other regions which are becoming unmanageable and uncontainable, and, by the use of the seat which each of the powers have on this Security Council, instead of being resolved, they are tending to worsen." It is for the latter reason, that Argentina is filing a protest before the U.N. General Assembly, as well. Fernandez de Kirchner pointed again to the fact that the UK is the real colonialist here, historically, geographically, and even zoologically! She reminded her listeners that next January 2 and 3rd will be the 180th anniversary of Britain’s usurpation of the Malvinas Islands, when British forces invaded them in 1833, and kicked out the native Argentines. Nor was that the only time Argentina had to defend itself against British attempts "to subjugate us," she recalled, citing Britain’s 1806 and 1845 invasions of the mainland. Argentina’s rights over the Malvinas Islands have become a regional and global cause, because "it is an anachronism in the 21st Century to keep holding colonies." And, she noted, it is Britain which holds 10 of the 16 colonies still existing. |