By Alan Béraud, Ambassador of the Argentine Republic in Japan.
In October we created the Commission for Dialogue on Malvinas in Japan and organized its first meeting at the Argentine Embassy in Tokyo, with the aim to give greater visibility to the Question of the Malvinas Islands and promote compliance with the Resolutions of the United Nations and other international forums that call for the resumption of negotiations between Argentina and the United Kingdom in order to find a peaceful and definitive solution to the sovereignty dispute.
We highlighted the enormous significance of this Commission’s constitution and transmited the message of the Secretary of the Malvinas, Antarctica and South Atlantic, Ambassador Filmus, to its members. This first activity had a double format, face-to-face for the three members who are in Tokyo and virtual for the other three members from Kyoto, Nagoya and Sapporo, in Hokkaido. The six members that make up the Commission for Dialogue, all renowned scholars from different universities in Japan, agreed on their interest in the Malvinas Question and on the importance of promoting its dissemination. They debated their background and perspectives.
In this first meeting, the members elected the professor from the University of Shizuoka, Alberto Matsumoto, an Argentine-Japanese former combatant in the Malvinas war, as coordinator of the Commission, with a view to planning the academic activities to be developed.
Japan supports the resumption of negotiations between the Argentine Republic and the United Kingdom to find, as soon as possible, a peaceful and definitive solution to the sovereignty dispute over the Malvinas, South Georgia, and South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime areas, a position that the Argentine government has thanked the Japanese authorities on several occasions.
By instruction of the National Executive Power, since December 2019 the Argentine Representations abroad promote the constitution of Commissions for Dialogue on Malvinas at the international level.
