The President drew a parallel between the Battle of the Vuelta de Obligado, the claim of sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands and the negotiation with the IMF
President Alberto Fernandez today launched the Interministerial Work Table “Malvinas 40 Years Agenda”, within the framework of the National Sovereignty Day, and argued that “sometimes winning is not winning, winning is not lowering your arms”, while underlining that the islands “will not be exchanged for vaccinations or debts”.
The event took place at the Palacio San Martín, headquarters of the Foreign Ministry, where Fernández referred to the National Sovereignty Day that is celebrated this Saturday and that commemorates the Battle of the Vuelta de Obligado, at the same time that it drew a parallel between that historical fact, the claim of sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands and the negotiation with the IMF.
The president pointed out that “Vuelta de Obligado was a central battle in Argentina’s independence struggle” and added: “Some of us wonder why we commemorate a battle in which we lost. We do so because those women and men courageously carried out that battle. they fight, because with much less weapons, without the strength of the European armies, they crossed giant chains that they themselves forged to prevent European ships from entering our territory. ”
Claim of sovereignty for the islands
“We are not going to change the Malvinas either for vaccines or for debts,” said the president.
“Sometimes winning is not winning, winning is not lowering your arms and the Vuelta de Obligado teaches us that the one who wins is the one who does not lower his arms and continues his fight“said the head of state, who later referred in his speech to the sovereignty claim on the islands occupied by the United Kingdom and compared it with the negotiation between his Government and the IMF.
In that sense, Fernández argued that “being sovereign is not having to ask anyone to make a government program and it has nothing to do with not getting into debt, but whoever gets into debt to spend it, not to build, inevitably ends up being conditioned” and added: “Be sovereign it is to manage that debt so that the Argentine people do not suffer when it comes to paying it. ”
The President affirmed that “the dimension of sovereignty is not only territorial, the concept has changed, it has to do with not only the production of arms and the care of lands, it is also sovereign if one can feed his people, also if you produce vaccines and medicines, you are also sovereign if you develop your own culture. ”
“Neither for vaccinations nor for debts”
“There is no doubt about the right we have over these lands, some minimize them and tell us to pay for vaccines by delivering the islands and how shocking it is that they say it in public because hundreds of Argentines gave their lives for them,” added the president. in reference to a controversial statement made months ago by the head of the PRO, Patricia Bullrich.
The event took place in the Palacio San Martín, headquarters of the Foreign Ministry, and was attended by Chancellor Santiago Cafiero
And in this sense, he remarked: “We are not going to change the Malvinas for vaccines or for debts and if someone comes across another idea that he will forget because it is Argentina that wants to recover those islands“.
Worktable Axes
The Work table on Malvinas that the President launched will bring together different ministries that will have the task of developing strategies for the dissemination and awareness of national sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands, South Georgia, South Sandwich and the surrounding maritime spaces.
It will be made up of the ministries of Foreign Relations, International Trade and Worship; Defending; Culture; Education; Science and Technology and the Interior, and will work in coordination with the National Council for Matters Relating to the Malvinas Islands, organizations of former combatants and their families, universities, and provincial and municipal governments.
The central axes of the Working Table, as detailed by the speakers of the act, will be the reaffirmation of Argentine sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, the call for the resumption of negotiations with the United Kingdom and the ratification of the commitment to peaceful means for the resolution of conflicts of this nature, in addition to the recognition of those who died in the Malvinas War, their families, and veterans of that battle.
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