The Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation Daniel Filmus assured from Israel that “the scandal exceeds fiction”, in relation to the scandal by drunken signing of agreements in favor of the United Kingdom in conflict with the Falkland Islands of the former macrista deputy foreign minister Carlos Foradoriwho drunkenly signed texts that favor the British position.
“The former vice chancellor tells everything in a book that has been circulating for a whilein the moment in wich the topics of the agreement were agreed it was not in the Foreign Ministry, but in a basement of the British embassy that is surrounded by wines and he says that as the glasses passed, the negotiation was easier and the next day he called him to ask him what they had agreed on because he was very drunk,” Filmus told Radio Nacional.
“Duncan exalts the figure of the former vice chancellor because he was very honest and told him the truth. Then he says that the next day, Tuesday the 13th, met Mauricio Macri and that he former president told him that he was very happy with the agreement reached,” continued Filmus.
“And then he writes, half jokingly half seriously, that met with Foreign Minister Susana Malcorraputs “sober” in parentheses, tells him that they have to go further and one thing that is embarrassing and that is in another chapter is that Malcorra He tells him that in order to advance further, we had to wait for the elections because the Argentine people could get upset and harm our change at the polls. I’m surprised, reality is stranger than fiction”Filmus concluded.
An undiplomatic biography
Alan Duncan, former UK Foreign Secretary, recounted in his memoirs the Background curtain of the negotiation in 2016 with Carlos Foradorideputy foreign minister during Mauricio Macri’s administration, to achieve the agreement with which Argentina promised to “remove all the obstacles that limit the economic growth and development” of the Malvinas Islands.
Given the scandal unleashed, the National Foreign Ministry decided to initiate an internal investigation to determine the veracity of the expressions made by the former minister of the United Kingdom and determine “possible breaches of the duties of a public official.”
The remembered joint pact signed by the Macri government, with Susana Malcorra as chancellor, was highly celebrated by the British administration and garnered the repudiation of a broad political and social arc in Argentina, for which Foradori even had to give explanations before Congress. .
The Foradori-Duncan agreement implied, among other things, the collaboration of Argentina with trade, fishing, navigation and the exploitation of hydrocarbons in the islands, as well as allowing the establishment of “additional air connections between the Malvinas Islands and third parties countries”, in addition to the “establishment of two additional monthly scales in the Argentine continental territory, one in each direction”. In other words, it implied recognizing and consolidating British colonialism in the archipelago.
Now the memoirs of former Minister Duncan revealed that not only did the Macri government relegate the historic claim for national sovereignty over the Malvinas, but the official who signed it did so under the influence of alcohol.
