London upgraded Argentina’s behavior as provocation

The starting point for the conflict is already a few months. At that time, Argentina celebrated a small but furious political success: James Peck, the son of a British Islander, replaced the British citizenship against an Argentine passport. The 44-year-old artist was the first inhabitant of the Isles Malvina’s, who was carried away to such a change.

Promptly asked the Argentine government on the anniversary of President Kirchner of the war for the common photo-op, including passport and Peck, knowing that the precedent would drive the British to incandescence. For Father Terry Peck had during the Falklands War, eagerly made reconnaissance photos of the Argentine troops and it even received a military medal. The islanders took the son of the veteran with his action against her: “It is disgusting that a Falkland Islander does something like that,” said the outraged local parliamentarian Sharon Hal ford.

London, evaluates the behavior of Argentina as well as a provocation: “unjustified and counterproductive” was the actions of the Argentines, the British Prime Minister David Cameron said furious. Britain would never give up the sovereignty of the island against the will of its inhabitants. The concern over the “saber rattling” from Buenos Aires in the UK Ministry of Defence already holds in check. Argentina had “no military options to repeat the folly of 1982,” said Gerald Howarth, senior member of the ministry, according to “telegraph”.

Nevertheless, Prime Minister Cameron put on again. The inhabitants of the Falkland Islands should decide for themselves whether they wanted to continue to belong to the United Kingdom or not. If the Argentines will not accept this, then concludes the Premier, this is colonialism in its purest form. Now, Cameron got his answer by Kirchner, who has just recovered from cancer himself.

Victims in the dispute over the islands: the passengers of the “Star Princess”. Because of an intestinal virus epidemic, the Department had asked the authorities in the Falklands, to be allowed to write-downs for the port of Stanley. The British refused permission.

By decree, prompting President Kirchner on Tuesday that vessels must obtain permission from Argentine authorities, when they travel between the mainland and the islands. The photo shows a Royal Navy ship to be seen. British opposition politicians called for more military presence in the Falkland Islands, but the Defense Ministry declined.

With a renewed military confrontation between Buenos Aires and London, experts do not expect – at present are the memories of the war over the Falkland Islands 1982nd In the picture a hit British warship sinks into the sea.

New conflict – 30 years after the war

30 years ago ended the war for the “Islas Malvinas”, as the Argentines call the islands. For the attacker from South America, the campaign ended in a military disaster. The Argentine military dictatorship then called out with the cast of mostly British immigrants inhabited islands of the Great Power sentiments of the British Empire. Two months later, the bloody conflict was decided. The British flag flew again over the capital, Stanley. About a thousand people had to leave in the insane war their lives.

The dispute over the island group is likely in view of the forthcoming 30th Anniversary of the Falklands War in April of this year, move back into the public eye. The Argentines insist that the British overseas territory, which they claim for themselves since 1833, finally wearing the Argentine flag.

The new political offensive from Argentina has a tangible economic reason: there was a British oil company announced a few months ago, its experts have made ​​a potential of 350 million barrels in the region find ..