Buenos Aires-SANA
The sixth day of November 2020 marks the 200th anniversary of the Argentine flag being raised for the first time in the Malvinas Islands, located off the coast of Argentina in the South Atlantic, on an occasion during which Buenos Aires reaffirms its sovereignty over these islands currently occupied by Britain.
In a statement on the occasion, the Argentine Foreign Minister Felipe Carlos Sula said in a statement on the occasion that Sana received a copy of it that in 1820 the Argentine national flag was raised in the islands by the sailor David Jupet, who was in the service of the Argentine Navy and was appointed a colonel in the army on behalf of the government of Buenos Aires and distributed a leaflet upon his arrival. To the port of Soledad in the islands, in which he presented an account of the receipt of the islands on behalf of the Argentine government and his willingness to work with justice and hospitality towards foreigners, as the circular was widely published in the press.
The statement pointed out that before this date, the Malvinas Islands were the focus of disputes between Spain, France and Britain in the eighteenth century, as they were under full sovereignty by the Spanish authorities without objection by Britain or any other foreign power, and that these sovereign rights were transferred to Argentina as the successor state to Spain. After the end of the Spanish presence on the islands.
The statement pointed out that the raising of the Argentine flag on the Malvinas Islands is an official and general expression of the effective exercise of Argentine sovereignty inherited from Spain, which was widely disseminated and did not receive a response or objection at the time from Britain until the latter's occupation of the islands in 1833.
The statement stressed that Argentina did not agree to the British occupation of the islands, which took place in peacetime, indicating that the various successive Argentine governments were constantly calling for the restoration of full sovereignty over these islands.
The statement stressed the importance of the international community's support for Argentine sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands, which led to the United Nations adopting various resolutions in this context.
It is noteworthy that Argentina has repeatedly denounced Britain's announcement of strengthening its military presence in the Malvinas Islands, under the pretext of the threat posed by Buenos Aires, knowing that the latter always affirms its readiness to resume negotiations and dialogue with London without conditions or preconditions for the sake of resolving the dispute over sovereignty over the aforementioned islands.
