Both times Britain has offered to return the Falklands and Argentina have frustrated it

Video: Andrés Cisneros, former Vice Chancellor

As every year on April 2, the application was extended to the whole country at events where not only is a tribute paid to the heroes who participated in the war, but also to Britain. United Nations (UN) Resolution 2065 and feel they are negotiating with the Argentinian authorities.

What few people may know is that there were at least two opportunities to regain control of the islands peacefully. One was under the last government of Juan Domingo Perón and the second a few months before the war.

In dialogue with InfobaeAndrés Cisneros, former vice-chancellor of Carlos Menem, gave a historical review of the claim to sovereignty and revealed how the two opportunities to recover the islands frustrated by the objections imposed by the Argentines.

In January of 1833, the islands that were occupied by proto-Argentines, because Argentina did not exist as such; We were still a territory with civil wars after the independence of Spain.

But in 1810, Spain was already occupying the islands. Then the inhabitants of the Plate River who replaced the Spanish authorities felt empowered to rule the islands and were sent to various authorities. There were several Spanish and Argentine governors. In January 1833, a British frigate helped by an American frigate came and expelled them from the cannon.

The damage that the war of the 82nd has caused us is incalculable. We must make the request, and one day we will arrive I do not know if the return of the islands, which seems very unlikely, but to an honorable agreement that takes into account the interests of both parties.

You do not have to waste a minute without claiming, but we have to use common sense and understand that we are very, very isolated. Moreover, Argentina's claims are based on territorial rights, which is obvious. But in the world, the importance of territorial rights is diminishing and the importance of human rights, of human rights, is increasing. And there live people who do not want to be Argentinian, they want to be British, so things get complicated for us.

I believe that the expectations are good and that it worked well, this problem will be solved in 50 years. The day will come once the law will have enough weight for the English to sit down to negotiate.

This day can happen, but what do we, the Argentineans, have to do? To claim sovereignty today, I want it now? It does not help us at all. The English tell us "no, I do not discuss anything". Or establish a cooperative relationship of understanding without declining sovereignty?

On two occasions Britain proposed to restore sovereignty and, from Argentina, the offer was frustrated. Rodolfo Terragno says that they are three, but I have two. The first was in the last Perón government. The British ambbadador made a written offer to the Argentine Chancellor, which we could call a resale, by which they recognized sovereignty at that time, but this operation came into force a hundred years later .

Peron asked the Chancellor of Argentina to try to reduce his term of office by one hundred years to 50 years. Perón died a few weeks later and the government that remained was not fit enough to pursue a negotiation of this magnitude.

The second offer was very similar. The British prime minister sent a vice-chancellor, named Nicholas Ridley, with the offer in hand. He led the military junta. And the military junta said that she accepted the return of sovereignty, but that she would not wait 100 years, that she wanted it at the end of the year. . It was a way of telling them no. Do you know who was the British Prime Minister who sent this offer? Margaret Thatcher.

Thatcher made this offer in September 1981, six months before landing in the Malvinas. We had the opportunity of our lives and we did not take advantage of it.