Watch VIDEO. The Malvinas and South Atlantic Islands Museum inaugurated a mural about the new demarcation of the Argentine Continental Shelf, during a ceremony in which the Secretary of the the Secretary of the Malvinas, Antarctica and South Atlantic of the Foreign Ministry, Daniel Filmus, highlighted the importance of the exhibition for future knowledge of children and young people about the work of Argentines as State policies.
In addition to Filmus, the Minister of Culture of the Nation, Tristán Bauer; the general coordinator of the National Commission on the Outer Limit of the Continental Shelf (COPLA in the Spanish acronym), Frida Armas Pfirter, and the director of the Malvinas and South Atlantic Islands Museum, Edgardo Esteban.
During the event, which took place on September 2, Filmus said that in the future “many young people and children will be able to know the work of Argentines put into State policies, looking to the future and defending national sovereignty”.
“It is a great joy to be at the Malvinas Museum participating in the inauguration of a space about the Argentine Continental Shelf shortly after the passing of the law that establishes the demarcation of its outer limit and consolidates our sovereignty”, he added.
For his part, Bauer stated that “Atahualpa Yupanqui said that 'you cannot love what you do not know’” and said that “in order to defend what is ours we have to know it, and we have to do it from love”, and he highlighted the importance of museums in that respect.
“You have to know the past to build a future”, pointed out the Minister of Culture, who stated that “our memory serves to project ourselves as a sovereign country, as a country that defends its wealth”.
The director of the Malvinas and South Atlantic Islands Museum, Edgardo Esteban, expressed that “these policies, as stated by President Alberto Fernández, have to endure over time as a matter of State, understanding what the Malvinas Cause means by looking at generations to come, looking to the future”.
The new permanent mural, which was made by COPLA, is made up of five panels, four showcases and a space in which the work carried out by the National Commission on the Outer Limit of the Continental Shelf is explained.
COPLA was in charge of preparing the final proposal to establish this limit, in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
The mural consists of large illustrations that give an idea of the great extension of the limit and the area covered, it allows to discover the geological characteristics of the margin and the natural resources that exist on the continental shelf, which are potential riches for Argentina.
The showcases display objects related to the scientific and legal work carried out by COPLA, the volumes of the Argentine submission of the outer limit of the continental shelf that were presented at the United Nations and some DVDs with digital information.
In addition, there are elements that were the result of the Commission's work, such as a stamp and a book on the geological characteristics of the Argentine continental margin. Also exhibited are items used in the oceanographic campaigns and an impressive model of the ARA Puerto Deseado, an oceanographic vessel with Antarctic capacity that was used in several of the campaigns carried out by COPLA.
