The Foreign Minister wrote that British Foreign Secretary William Hague, in an article also published by El Mercurio on Jan. 21, “made a series of remarks that distorted historical facts. He does not take into account that there were 32 Spanish Governors on Malvinas between 1774 and 1811, and that once the first Argentine Government was established, recognized by the United Kingdom in 1825, the policy of sending governors to the Malvinas was continued by the Buenos Aires authorities.
It is an historical fact, he adds, that a British naval force expelled from the Malvinas, on Jan. 2, 1833, the legitimate authorities of the Malvinas and the Argentine population. “It was an act of aggression in line with the global policy carried out by the British Empire in the XIX Century. Since then the Argentine Republic has protested continuously and repeatedly for this subjugation of its sovereignty”, Timerman said.
The Foreign Minister also wrote that “without valid legal arguments, the British Government resorts to the principle of self-determination of the people”, in an attempt to justify “the illegitimate occupation of the islands and ignore the U.N. invitation to negotiate a settlement of the conflict”.
Timerman reminded that the U.N. and Argentina uphold the principle of self-determination of the people. But points out that this principle is not of application in the Malvinas because “it is a population planted by Britain”, as acknowledged by the United Nations Decolonization Committee, in its annual reports on the Malvinas.
He also says that the British attitude on Malvinas contradicts other United Kingdom stands in the cases of Hong Kong and the Diego García island.
“For the United Nations, the (Malvinas) issue is a dispute of sovereignty between the Argentine Republic and the United Kingdom, that
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