Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman accused today the United Kingdom of setting a “blockade against all Argentines” as the European country holds illegal occupation of the Malvinas Islands, during a presentation at the Peronist National Front headquarters.
Likewise, Timerman condemned the fact that the South Atlantic archipelago “is the most militarized territory in the world.”
In the company of Presidential Secretary Oscar Parrilli, Florencio Varela’s Mayor Julio Pereyra, and Kirchnerite Deputy Carlos Kunkel, the Minister remarked “I’ve seen that many are saying that Argentina has set a blockade to the Malvinas Islands, thus isolating the islanders, but that’s far from true as it turns out to be the other way around. The one setting a blockade here is the United Kingdom. It’s the Argentines that for the past nine generations, like the Vernet family (heirs of the 1833 Argentine Malvinas Governor), couldn’t live in the islands because of the blockade of a military power against Argentina.”
Furthermore, Timerman condemned the militarization of the South Atlantic as the official said “Malvinas is the most militarized territory in the world with a ratio of 1.5 soldiers per 3 civilian habitants in the islands. And this is not justified as there is no real military threat.”
To end, Timerman emphasized that the Malvinas “don’t belong to Galtieri [dictator that recovered the island by force in 1982], and the conflict did not start with the 1982 war. It’s a historic process that began in 1833 with the British invasion to the archipelago. Today, we use the weapons of peace of the 21st century to resolve a 19th century colonial conflict.”
Source: Buenos Aires Herald