The United Nations Decolonization Committee has approved a new resolution urging the United Kingdom to discuss the Malvinas sovereignty controversy with Argentina, in order to find a peaceful solution to the conflict.
The Committee, which gathered today in New York, regretted the fact that in spite of the wide international support for a negotiation between the UK and the South American country, the UN General Assembly resolution on the matter has not been yet fulfilled.
Speaking during the meeting, Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman criticized the United Kingdom’s unwillingness to negotiate. “Far from making the smallest effort to solve the controversy, they irresponsibly aggravate it,” he said.
“They constantly increase their military presence in the South Atlantic; they make new efforts towards exploring and exploiting natural resources in the region, they exploit fishing resources beyond their sustainability, they have orchestrated a campaign to distort the perception of the transplanted population,” Timerman said, enumerating what he considered the UK’s wrong approach to the matter.
Besides Timerman, islanders Mike Summers and Phyl Rendell took part in the meeting, as well as Ricardo Paterson and Guillermo Clifton, who defended Argentina’s position. UK Prime Minister David Cameron did not participate in the meeting.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald