Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero will participate this Tuesday meeting of the United Nations (UN) Special Committee on Decolonization in New York, where he will demand “Argentina’s legal rights to the Malvinas, South Georgia, the South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding sea area.”

during the meeting a draft resolution will be discussed in which Argentina and the UK will once again be called upon to “continue sovereignty negotiations on the Malvinas Islands issue”as officially reported.

“The foreign minister will reaffirm Argentina’s rights to the Malvinas, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime space and the commitment of the Argentine Government to a peaceful and definitive solution to sovereignty disputes, in accordance with relevant General Assembly resolutions and the Special Committee on Decolonization, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs detailed in a statement.

Argentine delegation

The Argentine delegation that will participate in the meeting will also consist of the Secretary of Malvinas, Antarctica and South Atlantic, Guillermo Carmona; national deputies and senators from the ruling and opposition parties; the governor of Tierra del Fuego, Gustavo Melella; and deputies, officials, and civil society representatives from the province.

Thus, the national position on Malvinas “has once again conveyed to the international community as State policy going beyond the political flag, reaffirming Argentina’s legitimate rights, calling on the UK to continue negotiations to find a peaceful solution to the controversy, in accordance with the resolutions General Assembly and Special Committee on Decolonization”.

In addition, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that during its visit to the UN headquarters in New York, Cafiero will meet with his general secretary, António Guterres, to whom the organization has entrusted “a mission of goodwill with regard to the Malvinas Islands issue”.

The Special Committee on Decolonization, created in 1961 as an auxiliary body of the United Nations, served to ensure the implementation of the organization’s resolution 1514 (XV), and annually examined the situation of colonials still awaiting decolonization, adopting resolutions allowing progress towards the end of colonialism.