UK increases military spending on Malvinas
Manoel Giffoni
Press TV, Buenos Aires
The recent announcements from the British Army raised serious concerns in Buenos Aires. Senior commanders confirmed that British will be deploying one thousand extra troops to the disputed Malvinas Islands, a small archipelago in the South Atlantic that belonged to Argentina but was taken over by Britain more than a hundred years. The order from London adds nearly 85 percent to the 1200 soldiers already there and the troops will be made up by members of the Royal Artillery, the 3 Commando brigade and the Royal Marines.
Located just 600 kilometers off the shores of Argentina, the Malvinas has become NATO’s biggest military base in the Southern Atlantic. Tensions between Buenos Aires and London have been running high since Argentina resumed its sovereignty claims before the United Nations. The UK is using South American country’s negotiations to lease Russian supersonic aircrafts as a pretext to increase its firepower from the islands, a move which experts find groundless.
The UK occupied the Malvinas Islands in 1833 and expelled the Argentinean authorities and hundreds of settlers. Since 1965, the UN has been calling on both parties to conduct bilateral negotiations to settle the sovereignty dispute but London has repeatedly ignored the General Assembly resolutions and progressively increased its military presence in the region, despite international treaties prevent Britain from doing so.
Contrary to the social budget adjustment plans announced by Prime Minister David Cameron, the UK has recently spent over 3.1 billion pounds to build the new top-class aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, and 228 million pounds to install a super missile system to defend the tiny territory.
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