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UK miss-isles: Argentina fears nukes on Falklands
Published: 11 February, 2012, 15:14
A single Vanguard class submarine (Image from military-today.com)
TAGS: Arms, Conflict, South America, UK, Politics
Argentina’s foreign minister has accused the UK of deploying nuclear weapons near the disputed Falkland Islands, militarizing the South Atlantic.
Hector Timerman voiced the accusations as he lodged a formal protest with the UN on Friday. He said Argentina had intelligence that Britain had deployed a Vanguard class submarine in the area.
“Thus far the UK refuses to say whether it is true or not,” he told a journalists in New York. “Are there nuclear weapons or are there not? The information Argentina has is that there are these nuclear weapons.”
Britain’s ambassador to the UN Mark Grant would not officially comment on disposition of British submarines, but called Argentinean allegations of UK’s militarization “manifestly absurd.”
UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon said in a statement that he was concerned with the escalating row between Argentina and Britain over the Falkland Islands.
Earlier the British media reported that UK had deployed a Trafalgar-class nuclear-powered submarine armed only with conventional weapons to the region.
The tension between the two countries has surged in the run-up to the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War. Back in April 1982, Argentina tried to take control of the islands, which it calls the Malvinas and claims as its rightful territory. Britain repelled the attack with military force. More than 900 people were killed in the hostilities.
The current row has been brewing since at least 2010, when British companies started drilling for oil in the region. Argentina has put diplomatic and commercial pressure on the islands’ administration. Buenos Aires recently convinced Latin American countries no ban ships bearing the Falkland Islands flag from their ports, troubling their supply logistics.
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Normal 0 The standard of English on here is really very poor, one assumes because non-English speakers are using translation software. The arguments are nonsense anyway. Britain would never 'nuke' Argentina; Argentina is, frankly, an irrelevance as far as the UK, EU, US and China are concerned. Brazil is the only SA country that even comes up on the radar and then only due to the sizeable population and resources, not because it has actually done anything for the world. And the Brits have had several years to understand the RG psyche. The oil will be extracted, the latinos will huff and puff, and a small number of islanders (those who actually have a valid claim to the islands) will get very rich indeed. Oh, and once the mineral wealth has been extracted, the RGs will be forced to tell their schoolchildren about how Argentina withdrew its claim to the Falklands in 1850 (something RG administrations have strangely been very quiet about, not that the claim was valid in the first place, Britain's claim preceding the very existence of Argentina by 51 years).
Have in account than principle all America in his extention mainly to all the south was territory that conquer and belonged us until they were us won by the current countries that conforman the north America central and south and as in this case the Argentina win his independence corresponds all the regions that confor his territory and that find on continental underwater platform and by history a fuselage of British war to the Argentinian inhabitants that were in the Malvinas forced them to go being in inferiority to do front bélico. It is to say sirs, English give back him the islands to the Argentinian government and to us the narrow of Gibraltar.
Are you going to bend over and take this up the ___ Argintina?