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ARGENTINA EXPECTS TO have control of the British-held Falkland Islands within 20 years, the country’s foreign minister said in comments published yesterday.
During a visit to London, Hector Timerman said in a joint interview with The Independent and The Guardian newspapers that Argentina would not take military action but that Britain would be forced to compromise soon.
“I don’t think it will take another 20 years,” he was quoted as saying by the newspapers.
“I think that the world is going through a process of understanding more and more that this is a colonial issue, an issue of colonialism, and that the people living there were transferred to the islands.”
He added: “We don’t support the occupation of foreign lands, and the Malvinas case is the occupation of a foreign land.”
Britain has held the islands in the South Atlantic since 1833, but Argentine forces invaded in 1982, prompting then British prime minister Margaret Thatcher to send a naval task force to reclaim control in a brief but bloody war.
Timerman’s comments come amid an escalating war of words some 40 days before Falkland Island residents go to the polls March 10-11 to say whether they want the archipelago to remain a British overseas territory.
Last Thursday, Timerman refused an offer by British Foreign Secretary William Hague to meet with Falkland Islands officials during his visit, a move that Britain described as disappointing.
But Timerman said in the interview published yesterday that Britain “has never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity to find a solution for the Malvinas”.
He said Argentina would “respect the rights” of Falkland Islanders but said there was no obligation on him to discuss the issue with them directly.
“I don’t have to persuade them. The United Nations says there is a conflict between the United Kingdom and Argentina,” he said.
- © AFP 2013.
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it seems hash and weed is all the guards can get STOP wasting time going afterthosedrugs i would think all resorces and time should be spent trying to get as much herion and cocaine of the streets they are the problem drugs people will do crazy things to get there hands on those drugs when they have no cash which is always, com on get your act together enough is enough earn your wage end of
@Danny
I would like to point out that I work with drug addicts every day! Class B (HASH)has longer lasting and probably even worse effects than the various Heroin’s, Crack’s , amphetamine’s that are out there
Long term use makes people so paranoid, and it’s a very different situation then that most perceive Class B the calming relaxing effects that we see on TV
If u think our Law Enforcers are wasting their time Then I suggest u have a good think about this 1, if your child had been smoking this (SHITE is how i would describe it ) for years and their once intelligent curious minds were active now there brains are so fried that you can’t even have a simple conversation with them , then maybe u would think twice !!!!!
Class A,B, &C are all as bad as each other,
Illegal Importers, Dealers of banned illegal substances should not be jailed its too good for them, they should be made work day in day out in homes where these poor folk are detained due to drug induced mental health issues! That would teach them!
I call bullshit Anita, how can you put cannabis in the same category as heroin? Are you for real? I haven’t heard of anyone dying of a cannabis overdose. Also, cannabis doesn’t necessarily make people paranoid, it affects people differently. And you work with these people? God help them.
Lol @ hash addicts
Cannabis is a gateway drug which not always but can often lead to the use of heavier class A drugs. By inhibiting the gateway drug they are still lessening the impact and demand for class A drugs. ‘nipping it in the bud’ as such.
Good work again by Customs and police.
I hope they throw away the key.
Great news.. will hopefully drive up the price for all the stoners.
thats a lot of peoples medicine gone down the drain :(
Ah Jesus, my 3 million spot is gone. My weekend is ruined
The two Irish are a couple who are very well known in the Cork city chattering classes brigade. Your man has a penchant for fast expensive cars. Now everyone knows how he could afford them.
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