MALVINAS: ARGENTINIEN GEGEN DAS PERFIDE ALBION (5)

Falklands tension mounts
Morning Star Thursday 16 February 2012 by Tom Mellen

Argentinian maritime workers are to intensify their boycott of ships flying the British flag or those registered under flags of convenience unless London negotiates with Buenos Aires over the Falklands, or Malvinas.
Addressing the British government on Wednesday, maritime workers' union leader Omar Enrique Suarez said: "Sit and talk in a peaceful tone on the Malvinas or we're going to intensify the boycott.
"It will take British ships six hours to dock and six hours to leave port. We will continue enacting this measure for an unspecified period of time.
"Cease to militarise the South Atlantic or we will make you feel economic losses."
The Argentinian Confederation of Transport Workers (CATT) issued a statement on Monday declaring that it had "decided to selectively boycott any vessel with the English flag, with the invented Falklands flag or registered under any of the convenience flags from the English pirates."
Argentinian businessman Marcelo Elizondo, who provides services for companies with business counterparts overseas, said: "We've talked to companies affected by the boycott and they are saying that they are beginning to feel anxious."
The British government insists that it discovered and owned the islands a century before Argentina existed.
The Spanish crown claimed them for years and then an independent Argentina held them before Britain seized them in 1833, driving off the gauchos and bringing colonists over from Britain.
The UN has called for negotiations on the future of the islands, but London has ruled out talks unless the island's 3,000 or so residents request them.
The British government sent Prince William to the islands as a military helicopter pilot this month and a Trafalgar class nuclear submarine is expected to arrive in the islands' waters in time for April's 30th anniversary of the 1982 war.
British company Rockhopper Exploration is currently searching for oil off the Islands.
Analyst Elaine Reynolds of London-based outfit Edison Investment Research said: "Any ground-breaking discovery in the Southern Basin would radically change the islands' royalty and tax revenues, potentially adding up to $167 billion (£106bn) over the years."