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Malvinas: Timerman happy because region summit will state that the Islands are Argentine

Historic because Latam and Caribbean countries are working together, said Timerman

Argentina is looking forward to the coming Celac summit because there will be an overwhelming acknowledgement that the Malvinas Islands are Argentine and the need for bilateral negotiations, as well as a unanimous rejection of the US blockade on Cuba, said Foreign minister Hector Timerman.

 ”It is a great satisfaction that the Celac summit (Community of Latin-American and Caribbean States) will be held in Cuba; we are sure of its great success, it will show the world that Latin American and Caribbean countries can work together, it's something historic that had never happened before“, said Timerman ahead of the Havana meeting at the end of January.

”There are some issues which Argentina is fighting for next to other countries and which will be addressed“, anticipated the Argentine official who underlined that ”one of them is the Malvinas Islands, the acknowledgement that the Malvinas are Argentine and the need for peaceful negotiations“.

Timerman said that the second issue to address is ”rejection of the US blockade on Cuba, which is unanimously rejected and which also triggers strong reaction from all countries attending the Celac summit“.

Likewise Timerman said that 'nuclear disarmament' and declaring the region 'a zone of peace', as was anticipated by the Cuban Deputy foreign minister Abelardo Moreno in an interview with the government newspaper Granma, is high in the agenda.

”We are also going to debate relations between states and multinational companies“, said the Argentine minister who considered that ”the great issue overflying the meeting will be human development, economic equality, political rights, I mean a more fair society“.

”We must be ethical in economic issues, we can't pretend that a country can submit the interests of others“, said Timerman who then blasted the World Trade Organization, WTO, which has done so much damage to countries such as Argentina, other American nations, Africa, Asia and obviously we must include the IMF policies”.

“These are organizations that instead of being created to help countries develop, they continue with policies that impede countries development and keeps them economically colonized” insisted the Argentine official who called on the 'central countries' to open their markets to farm produce and to be less restrictive in the transfer of technology.