Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is at loggerheads with British
Prime Minister David Cameron  Britain warned Argentina that it
would "robustly" defend the Falklands if there was a new clash
over the sovereignty of the South Atlantic islands.  The warning
came after Argentina's foreign minister, who made a protest to
the United Nations about Britain's "militarization" of the zone,
said the South Atlantic has become "the last refuge of an empire
in decline."  "We are not looking to increase the rhetoric. We
have not started a war of words," said Britain's UN ambassador
Mark Lyall Grant.   "We are responsible for the defence and
security of the people of the Falkland islands and they can be
reassured that we will carry out that defence in a robust way if
necessary, but we have no intention of ratcheting up the
rhetoric on this issue," Lyall Grant told reporters.
Argentina's Foreign Minister Hector Timerman earlier gave a
press conference at which he justified his protest to UN
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and to