MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

Argentine calls for “sovereignty talks' resumption”

The Argentine government ratified the country's “imprescriptible sovereignty rights” over the Falklands/Malvinas and requested the British government “resumes bilateral negotiations”, to find as soon as possible a solution to the conflict.

The official communiqué from the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs was released Sunday in the eve of January 3, the 172 anniversary of the "occupation by British forces of the Islas Malvinas forcibly dislodging Argentine inhabitants and authorities legitimately established in the Islands".

Given the "illegitimate occupation that continues the people and government of Argentina reaffirm once again the imprescriptible sovereignty rights of the Argentine Republic over the Islas Malvinas, Georgias del Sur and Sandwich del Sur and the surrounding maritime spaces", adds the official release.

Further on the Argentine government ratifies the objective, contemplated in the Argentine Constitution, of recovering sovereignty over those territories "through peaceful means for the solution of controversies, according to International Law and respecting the way of life and interests of the inhabitants" of the Islands.

That is why and following United Nations and Organization of American States resolutions, Argentina urges Britain to "resume bilateral negotiations" and recalls "its permanent willingness" to retake the dialogue and calls upon the United Kingdom government "to show without delay, a similar predisposition towards those appeals from the international community".