Alberto Fernandez: “The Malvinas were, are and will be Argentine. We’re going to take back our islands.”

Argentina renewed its claim to sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands, remembering today, Sunday, the fallen soldiers and veterans of the war that in 1982 pitted that country against Great Britain for this archipelago in the South Atlantic.

” Falklands They were, are and will be Argentines. The fight we started made sense and didn’t end: we’re going to restore our islands peacefully. We will continue to raise our voice until the world hears us,” Argentine President Alberto Fernandez said at an event in Buenos Aires, Malvinas City of Argentina, to commemorate the 41st anniversary of the start of the war in the Malvinas Islands.

On this day in which Argentina celebrates since 2000 “Day of Veterans and Veterans and Fallen in the Malvinas War”, Fernandez He argued that those who “fought and those who died” in the war are “great people” who went to “defend their homeland and sovereignty” and for whom one should be “proud”.

Argentina and Great Britain quarreled over Falklands in a war that began on April 2, 1982 with the landing of Argentine troops on the archipelago and ended in June of that year with his surrender to British troops.

In the military conflict, 255 Britons, three islanders and 649 Argentines were killed.

Falklands first

Fernandez He recalled that in June last year at the last G7 meeting in Germany, the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, greeted him “with great sympathy” and began to talk to him about all the “things that the British and Argentines are doing.” in the mining and energy industries.

“I patiently listened to him and said that everything is in order, but first we must talk about Falklands. He replied that it was a finished topic. I told him no, that these lands had been usurped. In the 21st century, we no longer accept colonial logic. If you want to talk to me about Argentina, let’s start with how the islands are returned to us. The meeting was immediately terminated,” he said. Fernandez.

He also reaffirmed his recent decision to terminate the 2016 pact, which, without forcing the parties to negotiate sovereignty, obliged Argentina remove the obstacles it has created for the exploitation of oil and fish resources in the waters surrounding the Malvinas Islands and for flights between the islands and the Argentine mainland.

Fernandez He affirmed that “the British have no right to fly” into the Argentine mainland “when they like, or to use Argentine waters as they please.”

Sovereignty claim

In 1829, the then Argentine government created the Political and Military Command Falklandswith Louis Vernet at the helm, who settled in the islands as governor.

Then, in 1833, Britain occupied the archipelago and expelled its inhabitants and the Argentine authorities, who have always claimed sovereignty over the islands ever since.

In issuing a new statement this Sunday on the issue of the Malvinas Islands, the Argentine Foreign Ministry said the controversy continues.”earringnegotiations and solutions to which, since 1965, the United Nations has called on Argentina and the United Kingdom.

According to the statement, in this dispute Great Britain tried to refer to the principle of “self-determination” of peoples, which is “not applicable” for Argentina, since the population of the Malvinas Islands is the result of the imposition of “British subjects” since 1833.

(As reported by EFE)