Argentine President Denies Colonial Attitude.

The Argentine President, Christina Fernandez de Kirchner pictured above, has called David Cameron's comment, that Argentina has a colonial attitude towards the Falklands, "nonsense." We asked an Argentine government spokesperson why; "This is a risible comment. Our claim to the Malvinas is sound and undeniable. The islands were discovered by the Dutch, first settled by the French and then claimed by the British in 1765. Britian withdrew from the islands in 1814 but maintained their claim. When the Spanish Empire in the Americas disintegrated the United Provinces of the River Plate claimed the islands but were dispossed by the British who returned in 1833. Our claim then is quite clear - it is based on the fact that a defunct Spanish Empire, of which Argentina once formed a part, claimed them and that a country, the United Provinces of the River Plate, which no longer exists, also laid claim to them for no apparent reason. The fact that the inhabitants of the islands are almost exclusively of British descent and have no wish to become part of Argentina is neither here nor there, nor is our disastrous and completely illegal occupation in 1982. All we want is to press a nonexistant claim on people who don't want us - how can that be described as colonialist?"