Former Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie linked US nuclear submarine presence to rivalry with China

Former chancellor Jorge Faurie linked the navigation off Argentina’s coast of the US nuclear submarine Greeneville to the government’s recent refusal to participate in joint exercises with a US Coast Guard patrol.

And he also considered it as an exercise within the framework of the “Strategic perception of the United States and defense of its interests in this region, especially in the context of its superpower rivalry with China.”

“The Greeneville Pass and its operational link with a British plane from the Falkland Islands generates a puzzling episode but which, I believe, cannot be separated from the American strategic scenario in this region, which also has a projection over Antarctica , along with another very recent incident. in this region, where Argentina refused entry into our waters to the US Coast Guard patrol vessel “Stone” , alleging these alleged problems linked to the coronavirus pandemic ”, declared in Clarín the last Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mauricio Macri, who is a career ambassador.

Faurie’s statements come after the strong impact on the national scene of a tweet from the Commander of the Submarine Force Atlantic who, in the past few hours, reported that a plane from the United Kingdom had flown over them. Falkland Islands (he actually declared the Falkland Islands) in conjunction with his submarine USS Greeneville – which is nuclear powered and has the capacity to carry atomic weapons – in the South Atlantic.

Soon after, the chancellor Felipe Solá issued a firm statement that the government has expressed “Your grave concern” for declared information and requested information from the United States Embassy, ​​while reminding it of the United Nations agreements on the sovereignty conflict with Great Britain over the Falklands and international agreements against nuclear weapons like the one from Tlatelolco.

Meanwhile, the former foreign minister sought to link these events to others and said that “this latest episode actually seems to do more than allude to not allow the North American patroller “Stone” – which has sophisticated cybernetic equipment – to collect – during its presence in Argentinian waters – elements on the increased Chinese presence and illegal and abusive exploitation of their fishing vessels in the Mile 201 area and also in our waters. He added that “this Argentine decision to prevent access to the stone from our waters creates a clear imbalance that favors Chinese interests and affects those of the United States, all from a very ideological perspective that does not favor the equidistance that Argentina must strive to preserve. before the Chinese offer. -US “.