The Argentine defense minister accuses the United Kingdom of showing its “imperial arrogance” by preventing the sale of South Korean fighter jets to Argentina.
Agustín Rossi explained on thursday the impossibility to buy these aircraft because according to the manufacturing company Korean Aerospace Industries “the export of six main components produced by UK supplies for FA-50 is subject to to the approval of the Government of the United Kingdom, which has an arms embargo against Argentina ”.
“We had been in dialogue with the Korean company KAI for the purchase of the FA-50 fighter plane for the FAA (Air Force)” but “today they tell us that Great Britain, which produces FA-50 components, prohibits the sale to our country ”, Revealed the minister through his Twitter account.
The Argentine Defense Minister denounced that this attitude reveals a “new display of imperial arrogance” in London and through the hashtag #MalvinasArgentinas that recalls the historic claim for the sovereignty of the islands, he was outraged by the new confrontational situation generated by the European country.
Veniamos dialogando con la empresa KAI, coreana, para la compra del avión caza FA 50 para la FAA. Hoy, nos comunican que Gran Bretaña, quien produce 5 componentes del FA 50, prohíbe la venta a nuestro país. Nueva muestra de soberbia imperial 👇🏼#MalvinasArgentinas pic.twitter.com/XBjq2bExHb
— Agustín Rossi (@RossiAgustinOk) October 30, 2020
