President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner urged British Prime Minister David Cameron to hand back the Malvinas Islands and “put and end to colonialism” in a letter which will be published in several British newspapers tomorrow, on the 180th anniversary of the day the UK took over the disputed archipelago.
The Head of State stressed the fact that “Argentina was forcibly stripped of the Malvinas Islands, which are situated 14,000 km from London, in a blatant exercise 19th century colonialism.”
“The Argentines on the islands were expelled by the Royal Navy and the UK subsequently began a population implantation process similar to that applied to other territories under colonial rule,” the letter recalls.
Fernández de Kirchner also urges Cameron to abide by resolutions adopted by the United Nations in 1965, calling for Argentina and the UK to negotiate a solution to the sovereign dispute.
Bilateral relations between Argentina and Great Britain have taken a hostile turn in the last years, with 2012 marking the 30th anniversary of the Malvinas war and President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner speaking on the issue before the United Nation’s decolonization committee.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald