During his tour of the United States with the President Alberto Fernandezthe chancellor cafe santiago He participated this Tuesday, September 20 in a ministerial meeting convened by the Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, and there reaffirmed the Argentine position on the claim of the Falklands.

From the meeting of Lotte New York Palace Hotel representatives from Portugal participated; Brazil; Ghana; Angola; Canada; Colombia; Costa Rica; Guinea-Bissau; Spain; UK; Ivory Coast; Mauritania; The Netherlands; Ireland and Equatorial Guinea, with the aim of discussing Atlantic cooperation and marking the start of consultations to develop an association for the Atlantic basin.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs pointed out that Argentina “aspires that the South Atlantic be a region recognized as an example of peace and dialogue between nations.”

For this, he says, “it is inevitable find a solution by peaceful means to the sovereignty dispute between the Argentine Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland over the Falklands, South Georgia, the South Sandwich Islands and surrounding maritime areas, which lasted nearly 190 years”.

“We must safeguard this region from extra-regional political tensions, and for this reason we highlight, in particular, United Nations General Assembly resolution 41/11, which ‘solemnly’ declared the Atlantic Ocean between the Africa and South America as an area of ​​peace and cooperation,” Cafiero said, as the government demanded of then British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

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The Chancellor argued that the UK’s military presence in the South Atlantic “It is unjustified, disproportionate and in violation of resolution 2065, which calls on states from all regions of the world, but especially the most militarily powerful states, to respect this declaration.

“Argentina tirelessly reaffirms its legitimate rights over these territories. The United Nations, already in the aforementioned resolution, has defined the question of the Malvinas Islands as a special and particular case of decolonization, and together with the UN, the OAS and other international and regional forums, they systematically appeal to the resumption of bilateral negotiations as a means of ending this dispute”, concluded the official of the Palacio San Martín.