The Organization of American States (OAS) unanimously approved a statement in which the United Kingdom has resumed the negotiations with Argentina about the sovereignty of the Falkland islands.
According to information from the EFE Agency, during the 55th General Assembly of the OAS, held in Antigua and Barbuda, the resolution that Argentina presents every year about the dispute for the Falklands was approved by acclamation.
The text “reaffirms the need for the governments of the Argentine Republic and the United Kingdom of Britain and North Ireland to resume, as soon as possible, negotiations on the sovereignty dispute, with the aim of finding a peaceful solution to this prolonged controversy.”
The decision was celebrated by the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs and President Javier Milei.
“Unanimously and acclaim, the OAS adopted a new statement on the issue of the Falkland Islands, reaffirming the regional backing to the appeal to resume bilateral negotiations between Argentina and the United Kingdom. We thank the unanimous support we received from all the Americas.
Milei replied to the post with another message. “The Falklands are Argentinas. Instead of cheap nationalism, we of the government respond with clear actions and concrete results,” said the president.
On the 18th, the UN Special Decolonization Committee had already adopted a new resolution asking for the resumption of negotiations between Argentina and the United Kingdom regarding sovereignty over the Falklands.
The dispute between Argentines and British by the archipelago led to the Falkland War in 1982.
Malei, like his peronist predecessors, has been charging Buenos Aires’s sovereignty over the archipelago.
In April, during a ceremony in front of the monument to the dead in the Falklands War, at Plaza San Martín, Buenos Aires, Milei said Argentina needs to develop so that the inhabitants of the Falklands want to be Argentine.
In September last year, in his speech at the UN General Assembly, the Argentine President accused the United Nations of not fulfilling “his mission of defending the territorial sovereignty of his members, such as us Argentines, we know firsthand in relation to the Falkland islands.”
Months earlier, when the construction of a joint naval base with the United States in the province of the Land of Fire was announced, in the far south of the country, Milei said it would be “the first step to start thinking about the recovery of Falklands.”
In a referendum conducted in 2013 with inhabitants of the Falklands, 99.8% of residents of the archipelago said they preferred it to maintain the status of British overseas territory.
