British ships banned from docking in Buenos Aires

[Tony]

British ships banned from docking in Buenos Aires

Ships flying the British ensign have been banned from docking in Argentina's largest province under a new law passed yesterday.

By Jonathan Gilbert in Buenos Aires

6:20AM BST 03 Aug 2012

The legislature of Buenos Aires province voted to prohibit vessels sailing under the British flag from “mooring, loading or carrying out logistical operations” in any of its ports.

The bill was brought forward by Patricia Cubría, a deputy belonging to President Cristina Kirchner’s Front for Victory coalition.

It was nicknamed ‘Gaucho Rivero’ after Antonio Rivero, nicknamed the ‘Gaucho’, an Argentine cowboy who led an uprising in the Falkland Islands against the British in 1833.

“He fought so that the Argentine flag could fly in the Falklands,” Ms Cubría said.

The law is designed to hinder British ships involved in oil exploration in waters belonging to the islands and will be seen as the latest in a series of provocations in the run up to the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War.

Buenos Aires province is the largest in Argentina and is home to nearly 40 per cent of the country's population as well as its most important ports.

Last year the South American trading bloc Mercosur – which includes Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay – decided to shut its ports to ships flying the Falklands flag.

The Argentine government began legal action in June against five British exploration companies operating around the Falklands.

Ships linked to British military or logistical activity are also banned by the law.

“It is a tool that continues our fight for the sovereignty and natural resources of the Malvinas [the name for the islands in Spanish],” Ms Cubría said.

Last year, two ships, thought to be British and headed to the Falklands in search of oil, docked in the port of La Plata, close to the city of Buenos Aires, sparking mass protests.

It was later revealed they were Norwegian vessels contracted by Argentina.

In December, countries belonging to South American trade bloc Mercosur closed their ports to ships flying the Falklands flag.

Two P&O cruise liners were also banned from docking in Argentina in February after they visited the islands.

The British embassy in Buenos Aires did not immediately return a request for comment.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/sou...

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All of the countries of Latin America should work together as a team in order to support Argentina, and every nation in Latin America should ban British ships from docking at their ports!

Ireland and Spain should also join with Argentina, and should ban British ships from docking at their ports.

The Malvinas Islands must return to Argentina, the Rock of Gibraltar must return to Spain, and Northern Ireland must return to Ireland! NOW! It is time for some teamwork.

Salute,

Tony V.

[Tony]

Here is a link for a thread on the Washington Post Topix forum pertaining the Malvinas Islands...

http://www.topix.com/forum/com/wpo/TGQS24J9E2...

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And Brazil supports Argentina, the rest of Latin America, and Ireland and Spain, and others, need to support Argentina as well.

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Brazil Reiterates Support for Argentina over Falklands

By John Daly | Thu, 04 August 2011

On 29 July in the wake of a meeting between Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff in Brasilia, the pair issued a joint communiqué in which Brazil reaffirmed its support for Argentina’s claim to the Falkland islands, which Buenos Aires refers to the as Malvinas.

Brazil reiterated its intention of banning all Falklands’ flagged vessels from calling at Brazilian ports and described as “illegal” the current British oil exploration in the Falkland Islands’ territorial waters.

The communiqué noted,“The President of Brazil reiterates the support of the country to the legitimate rights of the Argentine republic in the sovereignty dispute relative to the Malvinas, South Georgia and South Sandwich islands and its adjoining maritime spaces,” adding that “this position stands on the long tradition of Brazilian diplomacy in support for the Argentine claim and which is based on the deep rooted historic event of 1833 when through an act of force Argentina was expulsed from the Malvinas territory.”

In the specific paragraph dedicated to shipping the communiqué stated that “The President of the Federative Republic of Brazil reaffirms its commitment with the 26 November 2010 UNASUR (Unión de Naciones Suramericanas: Union of South American Nations) Declaration to adopt in conformity with International Law and respective domestic legislations, all measures susceptible of being regulated to impede the access to its ports of vessels flying the ‘illegal’ colors of the Malvinas Islands.”

The joint release also emphasized Brazil’s and Argentina’s solidarity by labeling Britain’s current hydrocarbons prospecting in Falkland waters as “illegal,” adding that the explorations along the Argentine continental shelf “are unilateral actions incompatible with the resolutions of United Nations on the matter and to not contribute at all to reach a definitive solution to the dispute.” Finally, lest the mandarins of Whitehall be in any doubt as to where Brazilian sympathies lay, Article 26 of the joint communiqué noted that the Argentine President Kirchner thanked Brazil for its standing support in this question, so sensitive, and in particular for its the support in a 21 June meeting of the UN Special Decolonization Committee.

Link:

http://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/South-America...

[Tony]

Here are some threads on Topix pertaining the Malvinas Islands...

France...

http://www.topix.com/forum/world/france/THNNH...

Spain...

http://www.topix.com/forum/world/spain/T3MBPU...

Ireland...

http://www.topix.com/forum/world/ireland/TV6A...

All of the countries of Latin America should work together as a team in order to support Argentina, and every nation in Latin America should ban British ships from docking at their ports!

Ireland and Spain should also join with Argentina, and should ban British ships from docking at their ports!

The Malvinas Islands must return to Argentina, the Rock of Gibraltar must return to Spain, and Northern Ireland must return to Ireland! NOW! It is time for some teamwork.

Salute,

Tony V.

[Tony]

Italy supports Argentina. Other nations must rise up and support Argentina as well. It is time for some teamwork. Seriously.

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Monday, May 14, 2012

Italian lawmakers support Argentina in Malvinas sovereignty claim

Forty-eight Italian senators and lawmakers expressed their public support for Argentina’s sovereignty claim over the Malvinas Islands.

Link...

http://buenosairesherald.com/article/100833/i...

[Tony]

Britain warns Ecuador it could enter embassy to get Assange

By Eduardo Garcia and Maria Golovnina

QUITO/LONDON | Wed Aug 15, 2012 7:27pm EDT

(Reuters)- Britain on Wednesday warned Ecuador that it could raid its London embassy if Quito does not hand over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been taking refuge at the mission since mid-June.

In Quito, the Ecuadorean government said that any such action would be considered a violation of its sovereignty a "hostile and intolerable act."

"Under British law we can give them a weeks' notice before entering the premises and the embassy will no longer have diplomatic protection," a Foreign Office spokesman said. "But that decision has not yet been taken. We are not going to do this overnight. We want to stress that we want a diplomatically agreeable solution."

In Quito, the government bristled at the threat and said it would announce its decision on Assange's asylum request on Thursday at 7 a.m.(1200 GMT).

"We want to be very clear, we're not a British colony. The colonial times are over," Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said in an angry statement after a meeting with President Rafael Correa.

"The move announced in the official British statement, if it happens, would be interpreted by Ecuador as an unfriendly, hostile and intolerable act, as well as an attack on our sovereignty, which would force us to respond in the strongest diplomatic way," Patino told reporters.

Ecuador, whose government is part of a left-leaning bloc of nations in South America, called for meetings of regional foreign ministers and the hemispheric Organization of American States to rally support in its complaint against Britain.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/15/us-...

Latin America needs to unite against England, and Ireland and Spain need to join together with Latin America against England. It is time, seriously, right NOW.

[paul shykora ARTs]

...AHHH..Yawn...and yet, both countries DO-GOOD Trade-Business,here....a Catch-22...eh...