Argentine Ambassador to the United Kingdom Alicia Castro questioned today the British position regarding the Malvinas Islands sovereignty claim and urged the European country to join Argentina at the negotiating table.
“They are renouncing to one of the obligations consented by the international community,” Castro said in an interview to a local radio station.
The Ambassador accused the British government of leaving Argentina in an uncomfortable position by denying the Argentines the possibility of dialogue.
“The UK is trying to push us to the path of illegality,” as she explained her comments and questions to British Foreign Secretary William Hague during a Human Rights conference on Monday.
On the occasion, Castro put Hague in an awkward situation after asking him at a public meeting whether he was ready to “give peace a chance” by opening talks on the islands’ future.
“They have no excuse not to negotiate,” she said today to La Red radio station. “In 1965, the Uniteds Nations recognized there was a colonial situation regarding the Malvinas and urged Argentina and the United Kingdom to open a negotiation table in order to reach a peaceful final solution,” Castro pointed out.
The diplomatic also blasted what she called “British warfare tendencies.”
“The islands are located over fourteen thousand miles away from the United Kingdom. It is obviously something that lives somewhere on the British imaginary realm. It is an extremely war oriented country, conflicts to them are routine,” Castro remarked.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald