Secretary of Malvinas Affairs Daniel Filmus has ratified Argentina’s decision to take legal actions against British oil companies “illegally” drilling off the coast of the Malvinas Islands and protect the “resources that belong to all Argentineans.”
Argentina’s complaint against the “illicit” hydrocarbon activities conducted by British firms in the disputed territories, Filmus explained, comes “in a very particular context,” only a few days after London decided to increase its military presence on “unsustainable” claims that Buenos Aires poses a “threat” to Britain.
“It increases (the military presence) because of economic and geopolitical interests of the United Kingdom in the Malvinas,” the secretary affirmed.
“Not only does not Britain comply with the 2065 resolution of the United Nations, but it also fails to abide by the 3149 resolution of the UN that says that no party can make unilateral decisions,” the ex senator pointed out adding that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner instructed officials to defend the Argentine sovereignty, “the resources of all 40 million Argentineans.”
According to Filmus, the British increasing the military budget in Malvinas Islands “has no sense” since the resource-rich archipelago “is the most militarized place in the world,” accounting for a British budget of 60 million pounds annually “now taken to 200 million pound for the next ten years” to protect a “military base” in an area, the South Atlantic, that has been declared a zone peace, free of nuclear weapons.
“Provocations over the past days have been on the British side,” Daniel Filmus said.
“We are in Buenos Aires City downtown, two or three blocs away from the Obelisk. The place where they are drilling is as Argentine as the Obelisk. That is why we can not allow them to take Argentineans’ resources. They are exploiting a region with Argentine sovereignty… no progress is made in dialogue because the United Kingdom rejects it.”
buenosairesherald.com