Milei at the UN: “The Malvinas are a national cause for us”

Wednesday, September 23rd 2026 - 17:54 UTC

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Argentine President Javier Milei called on the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday to act over what he described as unilateral British actions in the Falklands, and accused the organisation of having “decided to look the other way” on the dispute. “The Malvinas are a national cause for us,” he said, repeating the phrase twice at the start of his address. Read full article

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nitrojuan
impeccable speech
Sep 23rd, 2026 - 06:56 pm - Link - Report abuse -4
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Jack Jones
Stay of the drugs nitro, it was nothing more than the ramblings of a desperate man who is going to lose the election, the Falklands are not Argentinian and never have been, wake up and smell the coffee,
Sep 23rd, 2026 - 07:02 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
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MarkWhelan
Yes “The Falklands” are a “National Cause” in Argentina. They are a convenient backstop to call out every time the people notice that something is not going the government's way.
Unfortunately for Milei that is almost all the time.

But also unfortunately for Milei it is a LOST CAUSE.
Sep 24th, 2026 - 01:19 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
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Freddie Foster
They are only a national cause Milei because you choose to use as a deflection, just like all the previous governments, the Falklands exist and will always exist. your whole country needs to grow up, what ever happened 200 year a go is irrelevant, especially your made up fantasy,
Sep 24th, 2026 - 04:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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nitrojuan
impecable speech . Integrity Territorial Principle FIRST, not apply Self Determination implanted people principle.
Sep 25th, 2026 - 12:25 pm - Link - Report abuse -2
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imoyaro
You mean they are a diversion from the wholesale looting of the economy by the current regime?
Sep 26th, 2026 - 02:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Jack Jones
Nitro, every white man in Argentina is implanted people, and self determination does apply, it is enshrined in the UN charter with no exceptions, you may not like it you may not agree with it but unfortunately for you that is the case, as for integrity, Argentina twice tried to take British sovereign territory by force, both times you lost, some genuine research required by yourself on the actual history of the Falkland, not false propaganda.
Sep 26th, 2026 - 07:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Pugol-H
Juanonwhizz

The Malvinas have been British territory since long before Argentina ever existed as a country, in any form, or ever claimed the territory, or any territory down there.

It cannot therefore ‘disrupt the territorial integrity’, of a country it has never legitimately been a part of.

I’ll say it again, for Argentina to call anyone an ‘implanted population’, is laughable.
Sep 27th, 2026 - 10:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Terence Hill
“Integrity Territorial Principle FIRST”

“An attempt sponsored by Spain and Argentina to qualify the right to self-determination in cases where there was a territorial dispute was rejected by the UN General Assembly, which re-iterated the right to self-determination was a universal right”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination#Self-determination_versus_territorial_integrity
Sep 28th, 2026 - 03:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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