During a friendship meeting with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the Congressthe ambassador Kirsty Hayes asked the Unión por la Patria deputy, Agustina Propatoto remove or change the shirt he was wearing, to It displayed an image of the Falkland Islands. Given the refusal, he chose not to pose in the photo.
“The situation is that they are asking me to take off my shirt so that the ambassador can be in the photo and it seems to me that as Argentines, we all have one of these shirts at home. Our Malvinas fallen are our relatives and it seems to me that there is no objection to coming with a symbol because the ambassador does not want. If not, they ask me to get out of the photo,” he said in a video that captured the exact moment and was uploaded to social networks.
Hayes managed to respond: ”We too have fallen”to the visible discomfort of legislators Margarita Stolbizer and Martín Tetaz, who were present, and the latter also asked Propato to change his shirt so they could all take the photo together.
”This is the shirt that I’m not going to take off”
After the controversy, the Unión por la Patria deputy turned to her X account to give details about what happened at the meeting: ”Today, at 12:20 noon, the HCDN was formed the parliamentary group between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Argentine Republic.
”The ambassador of the English was present, before the official photo that I was trying to hide everything I said in pursuit of the defense of our Malvinas cause, the ambassador demanded that I take off the shirt that I am wearing in the photo, otherwise she would not participate in the official photo”, he assured.
In addition, he commented that both Almirón, Tetaz and Stolbizer ”endorsed the demand of the English ambassador”, and closed: ”In honor of our fallen, heroes, veterans of the Malvinas and all our compatriots in my heart I carried and will carry stamped : ‘THE MALVINAS ARE ARGENTINE”.
The meeting with the United Kingdom
The deputy Lisandro Almirón of La Libertad Avanza was appointed to preside over the Parliamentary Friendship Group with the United Kingdom. Among those present was Maria Ibañez (MID)who maintained that “it is essential to build from friendship”; while Stolbizer highlighted the work of the Ambassador in the “political-parliamentary” link.
Propato, involved in the controversy and on crutches, declared: “I hope we can resume dialogue and work together”as well as urged to “continue diplomatic relations between both nations” the deputy Gabriel Chumpitaz (PRO).
The deputies also participated in the meeting Juan Manuel López (CC), Soledad Carrizo (UCR) and Andrea Freites (UxP).
The meeting took place in the White Room of the Legislative Palace and was attended by the director of Parliamentary Diplomacy and International Cooperation of the Chamber of Deputies, Luciana Termine; the GPA coordinator, Patricia Cardo; and from the Embassy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Argentina, Constanza Galli and Lara Manovi
Source: Ambito
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