The secretary of Malvinas, Antarctica and the South Atlantic, Guillermo Carmona, stated that Argentina’s claim to sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands, the development of a national policy in Argentina’s Antarctica, and the approach to maritime issues in the South Atlantic “are and should continue to be state policy”.

“The Malvinas question, Antarctic policy and management, and approaches to ocean issues should continue to be state policy,” Carmona said in an interview with Télam.

Officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicated that the aspiration was “to project an action plan that guarantees the continuity and consolidation of Argentina’s sovereign policy in these areas,” and highlighted in this regard the trip President Alberto Fernández made last Wednesday to Argentine Antarctica .

Along this path, he emphasized, the Malvinas Question was revived as “State policy enshrined in the National Constitution, in seeking a new negotiating process for sovereignty that continues the negotiations that existed between 1966 and 1982 and that the UK has systematically obstructed”.

“In the Antarctic issue -Carmona determined- we are working on the formulation of the National Antarctic Strategy, an old debt from 1969, the design of which we hope to complete this year.”

Meanwhile, regarding the “South Atlantic maritime policy”, the official explained that the “greater presence of the Argentine State in the development of sustainable economic activities, the control of illegal fishing and the conservation of marine resources and continental platforms, through the coordination of all ministries involved in Pampa Azul Initiative”.

“Each of these strategic lines contains a large number of actions that we are currently carrying out and we hope to project after 2023 because the development of sovereign policies requires work with a long-term perspective,” concluded Secretary Malvinas, Antarctica and South Atlantic. (submerged)