President Alberto Fernandez He participated in an official activity for the Veteran’s Day and the Fallen in the Malvinas War, while the war conflict began 40 years ago.
The event he presided over Alberto Fernandez was at the Malvinas and South Atlantic Islands Museum and He asked that the facts be kept in memory. “May the ex-combatants never again fall into oblivion and silence on the part of any government”expressed the mandatary.
In the middle of his speech, Alberto Fernandez He asked the United Kingdom to abandon the unjustified military presence in the Malvinas, since he assured that it is a zone of peace and cooperation.
My heart will always be with them and my strength, in recovering what is ours.
the head of state He referred to the thousands of testimonies that reflect the courage and the adverse conditions faced by those who participated in the conflict, in addition to the serious errors in military leadership at that time.
Landing on the islands was a decision behind the back of a people that they tried to confuse and manipulate. The laws of life were disregarded.
Alberto Fernandez He added that the soldiers who acted at that time embarrassed the Armed Forces and today they represent a past that no one wants to return to.
The absence of the vice president
In the activity in honor of the fallen, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Sergio Massa, also participated, while the great absentee was Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who will direct another commemoration in the Senate.
In the place, Alberto Fernandez awarded a decoration to 15 of the Malvinas ex-combatants, a survivor of the sinking of the cruiser ARA General Belgrano sang the song Aurora, then Dolores Solá sang the National Anthem and the act ended with the March of the Malvinas in the voice of Luna Sujatovich.
