Malvinas: Argentina responded to Boris Johnson’s comments and claimed sovereignty

The British government confirmed this morning that it will maintain military presence in Falkland Islands to protect them from external threats. The armed forces will “deter and defy incursions into British territorial waters off Gibraltar” and “maintain a permanent presence in the Falkland Islands, Ascension Island and the British Indian Ocean Territory ”, indicates the document of more than 100 pages, which will be presented this Tuesday by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and whose content was broadcast in the last hours by the British press.

Following these statements, the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement in which it claimed sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands and recalled that “The UK must listen to the international community which promotes an end to colonialism in the world.”

The complete declaration:

Faced with today’s presentation by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to the House of Commons, in which he presented an integrated review of security, defense, development and foreign policy, the Argentine Republic supports a more times than the UK must listen to the international community promoting the end of colonialism in the world and that in particular in the case of the Malvinas Islands, he proposed, through United Nations resolution 2065, that the way to resolve the sovereignty dispute is through bilateral dialogue.

The considerations postulated by Prime Minister Johnson reiterate the UK’s traditional colonialist view of the Falkland Islands and all British possessions in the world and for Argentina do not reflect the novelty of British colonial policy. By virtue of the argument not recognized by the United Nations to defend the< droit à l'autodétermination >>, the United Kingdom maintains an illegitimate presence in the South Atlantic, in order to appropriate the wealth that exists there and to control both access to Antarctica. like the bi-oceanic passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Argentina constantly denounces that one of the main objectives of the United Kingdom is to support a military base in the Falklands, a circumstance that the South Atlantic countries of Latin America and Africa that make up the Zone of Peace of the South Atlantic (ZPCAS) have proposed as a threat to the entire region. Argentina has repeatedly denounced that this base violates UN resolution 31/49 which prohibits unilateral actions in the disputed area, such as this military base..

This situation also occurs in a context of deep concern on the part of those who believe that Brexit has weakened Britain’s position in the world and particularly affected by the exclusion of overseas territories such as the Falklands, the South Sandwich and South Georgia and the surrounding sea areas from the free trade agreement with the EU.

The Argentine Republic recalls that, as indicated in its Constitution and as it has constantly proposed since the return to democracy, It recognizes only dialogue, diplomacy and peace as the only means of regaining the exercise of sovereignty in the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime areas.. As our President Alberto Fernández underlined in the last speech of March 1 to the National Congress, we believe that the time has come for a bilateral dialogue for the restoration of the exercise of sovereignty in the Malvinas Islands under the terms of the United Nations resolution 2065, since in the 21st century, there should be no room for colonialism.

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