The Argentine president, Alberto Fernandezpromised this Sunday that Argentina will “recover” the Falkland Islands through the “pacific way”, in an official ceremony to commemorate the 41st anniversary of the beginning of the conflict.
“Let’s strengthen our commitment to the Malvinas more than ever, more than ever let’s say that the Malvinas were, are and will be Argentine,” declared the country’s president, according to the Télam news agency.
“The fight we undertook made sense and has not ended, and we are going to recover our islands peacefully and continue raising our voice until the world listens to us,” he continued.
Pact with London
Fernández has referred to the ‘Foradori-Duncan Pact’, signed in 2016 with United Kingdom by his predecessor in office, Mauricio Macriwhich had the objective of encouraging economic development and exploitation in the Malvinas Islands and surrounding areas.
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The president has stressed that said pact, which during his administration has been “little by little disarmed”, was a “shameful” agreement where the United Kingdom was allowed to once again have continental flights, from the Malvinas to Sao Paulo (Brazil); and, what was worse, it enabled the exploitation of all the maritime space surrounding the Malvinas” by the British.
The dispute over the sovereignty of the archipelago dates back to the 19th century and in 1982 involved a guerra directly between the two countries. Buenos Aires has traditionally been against any gesture towards LondonTherefore, the 2016 pact was viewed with special suspicion, mainly on the political left.