The Question of the Malvinas Islands: Timerman Leads the Argentine Delegation to the Special Committee on Decolonization at the UN.
Governors and national legislators join the Argentine Foreign Minister as part of the official delegation to New York
This Thursday June 20, the Argentine Foreign Minister, Héctor Timerman, will be in New York, taking part of the session of the Special Committee on Decolonization at the United Nations. As it happens every year since 1989, the Committee will consider the question of the Malvinas Islands.
Last year, in June 2012, Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner led the delegation to this Committee, at the thirtieth anniversary of the Malvinas War. In her speech, President Kirchner repeated request to the authorities of the United Kingdom to engage in dialogue with Argentina in order to find a solution to the sovereignty controversy around the Islands.
Foreign Minister Timerman will lay out the Argentine position, ratifying its disposition for a peaceful solution to the sovereignty dispute. This solution has not been reached due to the systematic negative of the United Kingdom to resume negotiations with Argentina. Lately, this situation has worsened as the U.K. made unilateral decisions that affect a disputed zone. They include the development of illegitimate hydrocarbons exploration activities and the exploitation of renewable and non-renewable resources, as well as the strengthening of the U.K. military presence in the zone.
The Special Committee’s session will also include the participation, as petitioners, of María Angélica Vernet, great granddaughter of Luis Vernet (authority in charge of the Political and Military Command In the Malvinas Islands and Cape Horn in the Atlantic at the moment of the 1833 British usurpation), and Alejandro Betts, Argentine citizen born in the Islands, and resident in the province of Córdoba since the early 1980s.
The Delegation presided by Foreign Minister Timerman includes also Ambassador María Cristina Perceval, Permanent Representative to the United Nations; Fabiana Ríos, Governor of the Province of Tierra del Fuego, Antartic and South Atlantic Islands; Antonio Bonfatti, Governor of the Province of Santa Fe; Maurice Closs, Governor of the Province of Misiones; Senators Marina Riofrío (FPV, San Juan), Osvaldo López (ARI, Tierra del Fuego, Antartic, and South Atlantic Islands), Rubén Giustiniani (Socialist Party, Santa Fe), and Members of the Lower House Guillermo Carmona (FPV), Carlos Heller (FPV), Juan Carlos Zabalza (Socialist Party) and Pablo Tonelli (PRO).
June 18, 2013
