shiva2999
March 24th, 2007, 9:03:34 PM
But then what can you expect from a country where the cowboys sip tea through silver straws?
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/argentina/note.jsp?idContent=368581
Government bristles over Washington’s comments on Chávez’s anti-Bush diatribe at local rally.
Argentina tells US ‘butt out’
Argentina yesterday urged the US "not to meddle" in its domestic affairs after Washington complained about the Argentine government’s having allowed Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez to head an anti-Bush rally earlier this month when US President George W. Bush was visiting Uruguay.
Argentina yesterday urged the US "not to meddle" in its domestic affairs after Washington complained about the Argentine government’s having allowed Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez to head an anti-Bush rally earlier this month when US President George W. Bush was visiting Uruguay.
"It is not he (US State Department’s Under-Secretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns) who can tell the President of the Argentine people (Néstor Kirchner) whether he can allow (the rally) or not," Interior Minister Aníbal Fernández said.
Burns on Thursday reproached Argentine Ambassador to Washington José Octavio Bordón for the March 9 rally in which Chávez called Bush "a political corpse" at a Buenos Aires stadium.
"I always say that we have managed to now have a mature relationship with the US, and that relationship implies to respect our individual decisions and not to meddle in decisions that have nothing to do with the (bilateral) relationship," Fernández said.
Burns was quoted by the La Nación newspaper as having told Bordón in Washington: "I am sorry, ambassador... I regret that that rally was held in Buenos Aires the same day that our president was in Montevideo. I don’t think this was the right thing to do. And I regret to say this, Mr. Ambassador, but this is the feeling of our government."
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http://www.buenosairesherald.com/argentina/note.jsp?idContent=368581
Government bristles over Washington’s comments on Chávez’s anti-Bush diatribe at local rally.
Argentina tells US ‘butt out’
Argentina yesterday urged the US "not to meddle" in its domestic affairs after Washington complained about the Argentine government’s having allowed Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez to head an anti-Bush rally earlier this month when US President George W. Bush was visiting Uruguay.
Argentina yesterday urged the US "not to meddle" in its domestic affairs after Washington complained about the Argentine government’s having allowed Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez to head an anti-Bush rally earlier this month when US President George W. Bush was visiting Uruguay.
"It is not he (US State Department’s Under-Secretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns) who can tell the President of the Argentine people (Néstor Kirchner) whether he can allow (the rally) or not," Interior Minister Aníbal Fernández said.
Burns on Thursday reproached Argentine Ambassador to Washington José Octavio Bordón for the March 9 rally in which Chávez called Bush "a political corpse" at a Buenos Aires stadium.
"I always say that we have managed to now have a mature relationship with the US, and that relationship implies to respect our individual decisions and not to meddle in decisions that have nothing to do with the (bilateral) relationship," Fernández said.
Burns was quoted by the La Nación newspaper as having told Bordón in Washington: "I am sorry, ambassador... I regret that that rally was held in Buenos Aires the same day that our president was in Montevideo. I don’t think this was the right thing to do. And I regret to say this, Mr. Ambassador, but this is the feeling of our government."
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