The Government Celebrates The Hague Judgment Against Britain By Colonization

The Government paid tribute yesterday to the decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which called on the United Kingdom to return the Chagos Archipelago to the Republic of Mauritius, which could set a precedent favorable to the claims of the Argentina to the Falklands.

The case of the Chagos Archipelago has "enormous validity for the Argentine claim on the issue of the Malvinas," said Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie.

In both cases, there is "a situation of territorial dismemberment, in which the population that was in the islands was moved against their will, in this case in mainland Argentina in 1833," said the head of the San Palace Martin.

In addition, the provisional Speaker of the Senate, Federico Pinedo, described the declaration of the ICJ as "extraordinary importance", considering that this case "is practically identical" to that of the Malvinas.

The resolution of the Hague Court, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, received thirteen votes in favor and one against. There, he declared the process of decolonization of Mauritius illegal and called on the UK to leave the territory "as soon as possible".

Although the decision is only an advisory and non-binding opinion, all members of the United Nations General Assembly "have an obligation to cooperate […] to complete the decolonization of Mauritius, "said the president of the ICJ, the Somali Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf.

A historic claim

The dispute over the Chagos Archipelago began fifty years ago. Mauritius is an island country located in the east of Madagascar (in the Indian Ocean) and became independent from the United Kingdom in 1968.

Three years earlier, however, the British had separated the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius and expelled the 2,000 people who lived there.

Then, in 1971, Diego García, his largest island, was rented in the United States to install a military base there. This contract was renewed in 2016 and extended by 20 years. It is one of the major military installations in the Indian Ocean, capable of accommodating ships, submarines and bombers. It was used for the US invasion of Afghanistan, in 2001, and Iraq, in 2003.

For all these antecedents, the ICJ concluded, in a non-binding resolution, that the British process of decolonization of Mauritius "was not legally completed", in accordance with international law.

Official gossip

Leaving a meeting at Casa Rosada, Faurie recalled that the government had baderted that the process of decolonization initiated under the provisions of the United Nations was aimed at recovering the territorial integrity of Argentina and would not be allowed. was not applicable in this case. principle of self-determination.

In this sense, he explained that the advisory opinion of the ICJ was "of great relevance" for Argentina for two reasons. First, "it ratifies the role that corresponds to the United Nations, to the General Assembly, to the Committee on Decolonization".

Second, it sets a precedent that "the argument of territorial dismemberment is not acceptable in the process of decolonization, nor the principle of self-denial when the people consulted are not the people who correspond to the place where this referendum is organized, "he added. official

Pinedo, senator of Cambiemos and third of the presidential succession, recalled that the UN had, about these affairs, "two great principles, which are the self-determination of peoples and territorial integrity" .

In the Malvinas case, Pinedo explained that "Argentina contends that the principle of territorial integrity has been violated by the dismemberment of the territory, and the United Kingdom speaks of the principle of territorial integrity. "self-determination" to reject Argentina's claim to sovereignty.

"What the Hague is now arguing is that the principle of self-determination is a consequence of territorial integrity and that it is extremely important to the Falklands issue," he said. legislator.