A UN decision could benefit Argentina in its claim to the Falkland Islands

The Inter-American Court ordered the United Kingdom to stop administering the island of Chagos that it had invaded in 1966.

February 27, 2019

The Court of the Hague he ordered the United Kingdom End the Chagos Island Administration in the Indian Ocean. This decision marks a before and after in the conflict over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands and Chancery, they emphasized their importance in the claim of the Argentine territory.

The Chancellor, Jorge Faurie, He badured that the decision of the Inter-American Court of Justice concerning the Chagos Archipelago, as regards the dispute with the United Kingdom with Mauritius, "an important fact that we must give attention to the appropriate attention" because it gives "an enormous validity to the request of Argentina" in the question of the rights of Argentina on the Malvinas Islands.

According to Faurie, there is a similarity in the case of Chagos with that of the Falklands because it is "a situation of territorial dismemberment, where the population that was in the islands was moved against their will, in this case to the Argentine continent in 1833".

In this plane, the Chancellor recalled: "We have always maintained that the process of decolonization, undertaken in accordance with the provisions of the United Nations, has as its argument to restore the territorial integrity of Argentina, the principle of self-determination is not applicable in this case ".

"These are the elements that support the advisory opinion of the Inter-American Court of Justice, in the Chagos case with the United Kingdom, the situation or the arguments that Argentina has made in a similar complaint to the United Nations Decolonization Commission and the UN General Assembly "he said.

He also stressed that the "the arguments presented in the advisory opinion are of great importance to Argentina, as they ratify on the one hand the role that corresponds to the United Nations, to the General Assembly, the Decolonization Commission and the argument that territorial dismemberment is not acceptable in the process of decolonization, nor the principle of self-denial when the consulted person is not the people who corresponds to the place where this referendum takes place "

"All these elements have a very great validity for the Argentine claim of the Falklands", badured the holder of the palace of San Martín.