The Government vindicated the Argentine claim on the Malvinas Islands

The national government, through the Foreign Ministry, issued a statement on the 192nd anniversary of the illegitimate occupation by Great Britain of the Falkland Islands. In it, the libertarian administration reaffirmed “ their legitimate and imprescriptible rights of sovereignty” about the archipelago.

“On January 3, 1833, the Malvinas Islands were illegally occupied. by British forces that evicted the population and the Argentine authorities legitimately established there, replacing them with British subjects,” the statement said. On the other hand, it also focused on the illegal exploration and exploitation of natural resources by Great Britain.

192 years after its occupation, the Government claimed Argentine sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands

In detail, the text was signed by Chancellor Gerardo Werthein and provides a historical review of the history of the islands and the conflict with Great Britain. In it, the Government maintains that January 3, 1833 was the day on which the European nation illegally occupied Argentine territory and “evicted the population“.

“From the first moments as independent nationArgentina had exercised its rights of sovereignty over these archipelagos and maritime spaces, attentive to its character as heir to Spain’s possessions in South America. The action of the British Government It constituted an act of force in times of peacecontrary to international law and never consented to by the Argentine Government, which immediately presented its protests,” the document continues.

Subsequently, it is noted that “all Argentine governments “have reaffirmed their legitimate and imprescriptible sovereign rights over the Malvinas Islands, South Georgia Islands, the South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime spaces.”

“The Question of the Falkland Islandsas the Special Committee on Decolonization says, is a ‘special and particular’ colonial situation, which differs substantively from other colonial issues. This year marks sixty years since the adoption of resolution 2065 by the United Nations General Assembly, which established that the way to decolonize the Malvinas Islands consists of a bilateral negotiation between Argentina and the United Kingdom to peacefully resolve the sovereignty dispute, respecting the principles and objectives of the United Nations Charter, resolution 1514, and considering the interests of the inhabitants of the Islands,” the Foreign Ministry explained.

On the other hand, the Government questioned and strongly rejected the current “unilateral activities of exploration and exploitation of renewable and non-renewable natural resources in illegally occupied Argentine maritime spaces that, added to the continued British military presence in the South Atlantic, violate United Nations resolutions and have raised expressions of concern and rejection from the international community.

In this sense, Javier Milei’s management expressed their “willingness to resume bilateral negotiations that allow us to find a solution to this sovereignty dispute and put an end to the colonial situation of the Question of the Malvinas Islands”.

“Convinced that the only possible path to recover the exercise of its legitimate sovereign rights is through diplomatic means, Argentina also reiterates its interest in the Good Offices mission entrusted by the General Assembly to the Secretary General of the United Nations with the aim of helping the parties to resume negotiations in order to find as soon as possible a peaceful solution to the sovereignty dispute over the question of the Malvinas Islands,” the document concluded.

Relatives of those killed in the Malvinas returned to the island after five years and visited the Darwin cemetery

After almost five years, 140 relatives of those who died in the Malvinas during the South Atlantic conflict They returned to the islands to pay tribute to those buried in the Darwin cemetery. The event occurred during December and was possible thanks to the diplomatic efforts carried out by the Argentine Foreign Ministrythe Association of Relatives of the Fallen in the Malvinas and South Atlantic Islands, of Corporación América and Argentine Airports.

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Relatives of the fallen were able to visit the Darwin cemetery to pay tribute.

In the midst of the sustained claim by Argentina, the relatives traveled at dawn in a charter Boeing 737 from the Andes company to the Malvinas Islands that landed in the Monte Agradable airport to 6:30 and then be transferred to the Darwin cemetery where the remains of 238 of the 649 combatants who fell during the South Atlantic conflict that occurred in 1982 are buried.

On this occasion, parents of the children were prioritized. heroes fallen in combatto those who never traveled to the islands and, as a novelty, family members of those killed by the sinking of the cruiser ARA General Belgrano. The group in total was made up of 140 family members, they remained in the place for nine hours during which the members toured the place, visited the Cenotaph (monument in tribute to those who lost their lives during the conflict) and were able to have a moment of reflection in remembrance. to their lost affections, in a claim that, 192 years after the illegal occupation began, is still more valid than ever.