Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner recalled June 14, 1982 when she attended the Plaza de Mayo on the day that Puerto Argentina fell in the middle of the war over the Malvinas Islands and claimed the identification of 119 soldiers buried in the archipelago that her government promoted. .
“10 years ago today we sent a letter to the International Committee of the Red Cross to be able to identify the NN soldiers that only God knew and were buried in Darwin without being identified. It was an idea that an Englishman incredibly brought: Roger Waters” the leader of the group Pink Floyd, reviewed.
Massa: “One day the Argentine flag will fly again in Malvinas”
Massa, for his part, affirmed that the sovereignty claim of the Malvinas Islands must be passed “from generation to generation” and assured that if this message is transmitted in this way “one day the Argentine flag will fly again in the Malvinas Islands. “.
He declared that “forgiveness” should be asked for “not having received as heroes at the time those who, even losing the military battle, had left everything on those islands.”
“Malvinas must be a state policy, our claim must never cease”
The first combatant soldier from the Malvinas who arrived in Congress as a national deputy of the Front of All (FdT) for Chaco, Aldo Leiva, asked on Saturday afternoon that the claim for sovereignty over the South Atlantic islands be “a policy of State” of all governments and questioned the administrations that did not support actions for the recovery of those territories usurped by Great Britain.
After giving a brief speech in the Blue Room of the Senate, where the act takes place, Leiva merged into a long hug with the Vice President who was watching him from the dais.
“Madam President, I am going to call her President, not of the Senate, for me she is my President,” stressed the visibly moved legislator and ex-combatant.
Leiva warned that “not all governments have been able to vindicate the permanent deed and the struggle for sovereignty” and highlighted the efforts of the Alberto Fernández administration to reaffirm the need for a call for dialogue with the United Kingdom, which occupies the islands.
Leiva maintained that he has a double feeling when remembering the war. “On the one hand, the pride of saying we went to defend the country and did what we could and, on the other hand, knowing that we were used by a genocidal dictatorship that was leaving and that intended to perpetuate itself in power with a very expensive issue for the Argentines”.
“It is important -he stressed- that all governments know that the Malvinas must be a State policy, that our claim must never cease so that the United Kingdom sits down to comply with the decisions of international organizations that say it has to dialogue with Argentina on sovereignty”.
The ceremony continued with the delivery of 17 diplomas to parliamentary employees who fought in the Falklands War, on the 40th anniversary of the start of the war.
