Friday, September 06, 2013

Spain Offers Argentina Falklands Support


THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Spain has offered Argentina its support in seeking to win control of the Falklands from Britain, likening the dispute to the Gibraltar conflict.

Jose [sic] Manuel Garcia-Margallo, Spain's foreign minister, compared his country's battle to get Britain to surrender sovereignty over Gibraltar – a small, rocky outpost ruled by Britain for three centuries – with Argentina's demand for control of the Falklands Islands.

"The similarities are enormous," Mr Garcia-Margallo said from Montevideo, Uruguay adding that both Gibraltar and Falklands were in need of "decolonisation."

Argentina is embroiled in an escalating diplomatic row with Britain over the Falkland Islands, the object of a brief, bloody 1982 war which Buenos Aires lost.

Mr Garcia-Margallo added that Argentina "can count on Spain's support" in its effort to regain control of the Falklands. » | AFP | Thursday, September 05, 2013