Posted on 04/16/2012 5:58:10 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
President Obama erred during a speech at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, when attempting to call the disputed archipelago by its Spanish name.
Instead of saying Malvinas, however, Mr Obama referred to the islands as the Maldives, a group of 26 atolls off that lie off the South coast of India.
Cristina Kirchner, the Argentine president, has renewed her country's sovereignty claim to the Falklands in the build-up to the 30th anniversary of the Argentine invasion of the islands, which triggered the Falklands War, on April 2.
She has accused David Cameron of maintaining a "colonial enclave" in the South Atlantic and taken Argentina's claim to the UN.
Colombian press reported Mrs Kirchner was unhappy that a declaration of support for the Argentine claim to the British-controlled territory was not included in the summit's final document, which went unsigned after the USA and Canada used their vetoes.
Mrs Kirchner, to whom the Mercosur trade-bloc and the Union of South American Nations had previously confirmed their support in the diplomatic dispute over the islands, was seeking further backing from the Americas.
During the summit, she said Cartagena was an ideal place to talk about the Falklands since the wall that surrounds the city's historic centre was built by the Spanish crown to protect it from "English pirates".
Mrs Kirchner also reprimanded Juan Manuel Santos, the Colombian president, for failing to mention the islands in his speech.
Mr Obama maintained the USA's stance of neutrality over the Falklands, saying he wanted to ensure good relations with both Argentina and Britain.
"This is something in which we would not typically intervene," he said, adding that there should be dialogue between the UK and Argentina even though the Coalition refuses to negotiate sovereignty of the Falklands with Mrs Kirchner's government.
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Just a typical stupid liberal.
My Facebook friends from Argentina are posting Malvinas stuff every day. I’m surprised you didn’t see posters down there.
Somewhere, Sarah Palin is smiling.
Exactly. I wonder if it was a Freudian slip.
Proper Department of Defense (DOD) use of acronyms requires that the first use in a text be spelled out with the acronym in parenthesis. ;-)
Of course, FR is not DOD.
Since the Maldives are muzzie, using the name in any context is NOT a gaffe to oblamer.
The opposite of Darwinism is Creationism. So, every time that Obama says that this country wasn’t founded on Darwinism or the Republicans are Darwinists, he is saying that he doesn’t believe in evolution.
He appointed a new US Ambassador to the Maldives on March 27. He tries his best - bless his heart.
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