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'Suspend Falkland/Malvinas sovereignty claim until 2033', when hopefully Argentina becomes attractive

“The multilateral path no longer yields a result”, insisted Caputo. In 2033 with whoever is UK Prime minister, we should call for a review of the situation”

Argentina's former foreign minister Dante Caputo has proposed suspending the sovereignty claim over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands until 2033, when the 200th anniversary of the “British occupation” because according to his own words, “the multilateral path no longer yields a result”. And he emphasized, “they will come when the country becomes attractive for the Argentines”.

 “I would propose to the United Kingdom a truce until 2033, when the 200 years of the British occupation of the Islands. From now on and until 2033, nobody talks about sovereignty, which will protect us from the period being used as a background to consider we should abandon the claim”, said the former official of the president Ricardo Alfonsin administration in the eighties.

“The multilateral path no longer yields a result”, insisted Caputo and added, “let's bet on the desirable reality which is modernization and helps turn Argentina into an attractive country for us and the rest”

“If so many Argentines are disappointed with the future, and would leave the country if they could, why what causes us so much angst, should become an honor for others. Let's accept and address the modernization of Argentina” underlines Caputo.

Further developing on the idea, Caputo proposed, “let's open the doors and they will want to come if, ...if the country becomes attractive for the Argentines”.

And then in 2033, “I would propose to the British prime minister of that time a review of the situation to see where we stand. And if Argentina effectively did change, it climbed to a sustainable path of development, then conditions could change”.

Caputo also mentioned that the British people's decision to leave the European Union, Brexit, “will have no effect on the Argentine Falkland/Malvinas sovereignty claim”.

”Whoever believes that (Brexit) will have any effect on the issue, I believe they don't have the least idea of what Brexit means, or what is happening in the world, or the Brexit consequences for the international system”.