The Government reaffirmed Argentine rights over the Malvinas Islands in an act at the Foreign Ministry
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The Ministers of Defense, Jorge Taiana, and of Science, Daniel Filmus, and the Secretary of Malvinas, Guillermo Carmona, led the act for the Day of the Affirmation of Argentine Rights over the Malvinas Islands and agreed that the “British reluctance” to enter into negotiations is opposed by a “Argentine persistence” that has been going on for more than 180 years.
The activity, which is part of the “Malvinas agenda”was held at the Palacio San Martín and was attended by officials from the Executive Power, deputies and senators, senior officers of the Armed Forces and representatives of the foreign diplomatic corps.
On the Day of the Affirmation of Argentine Rights over the Malvinas Islands, Télam opens its archive and makes available to the public images obtained by the agency’s special envoys to the Malvinas War, in 1982.
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Carmona, opening the meeting, recalled that every June 10 is “a special opportunity to reaffirm the commitment to the cause” that can be traced back to the May Revolution of 1810, but especially since the decision to create in 1829 the command of the Islands to conduct the life of the Argentine population settled there.
The official recalled that Argentina has, since the British usurpation, the same position of “incessant claim of sovereignty” over the archipelago and stated that “colonialism is an anachronism in the 21st century.”
“Many times the question arises. For how long will Argentina have to sustain the claim? Faced with British reluctance, Argentina persists,” said Carmona.
In this sense, he considered it necessary to strengthen the policies related to the South Atlantic, which range from insistence in international forums to request the opening of bilateral negotiations and the collection of greater support from third nations, to oceanographic research and control of fishing in the surrounding maritime areas.
Carmona announced that the The Foreign Ministry will advance in the declassification of material related to the subject and pointed out that “it is a historical file that accounts for that history of Argentina with the Malvinas, of diplomatic action. We are going to evaluate which ones can be put on public view.”
Carmona also mentioned the “central place that President Alberto Fernández gave to the Malvinas issue” in his speech yesterday before the Summit of the Americas, arguing that “it has been relevant, because it has managed to make visible the Argentine position of claiming sovereignty “.
Meanwhile, Minister Taiana stressed that “persistence” also has a “continuity in history” that does not recognize comparison with any other sovereign claim in the world.
“In the Malvinas case, persistence is allowed since no Argentine authority ever recognized or consented to the occupation. One can argue about the tone, but none consented to the occupation”said.
In addition, he stated that today the debate is “between Argentine persistence and the British argument that ‘you lost the war’.”
“Until when? That has a clear answer. We will recover the islands when (the British) see that they lose more by not talking. We persist and without a doubt, we will win,” said the minister.
For his part, Filmus recalled that the invasion of the United Kingdom in the 1830s was motivated by economic interests for whale oil and pointed out that the permanence of that colonial enclave, almost two centuries later, responds to those same circumstances but with another type of products.
He also claimed the work carried out from Argentine science, specifically what has been done through the interministerial approach called “Pampa Azul”, whose objective is to learn more about the South Atlantic.
June 10 marks the 193rd anniversary of the creation of the Political and Military Command of the Malvinas Islands and adjacent to Cape Horn, by Luis Vernet.
During those years, when there was an effective Argentine presence in the Malvinas Islands, different acts of sovereignty were exercised in the archipelago, usurped in 1833 by the United Kingdom, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
On the 40th anniversary of the South Atlantic conflict, on November 19, at the National Sovereignty Day event, President Alberto Fernández launched the interministerial initiative “Malvinas Agenda 40 years.”
