Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra referred today to the announcement made by the government of the United States about the declassification of intelligence documents relating to Argentina’s last military dictatorship.
"The impact that this is going to have for us in terms of the possibility of understanding and determining the link and the specific things they did is very important in order to fully understand our history, and to heal some wounds as well”, said the Minister.
In conversation with radio station La Red, Malcorra added that “the declassification process of certain intelligence or military documents in the United States is very strict, and the declassification of the documents involved would have taken 50 years. So President Obama’s decision is going to gain us ten years of the declassification process”.
"It was not a unilateral decision. We raised this question when we started holding conversations about the visit of President Obama. Then there was a request submitted by Human Rights organizations and we made an official request, so this is the result of a negotiation, not of a request”, said Malcorra.
“I don’t know what the documents contain”, clarified the Foreign Minister. “The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo believe that there could be some information related to their grandchildren. I don’t know what we will find, but I do know that it is official documentation, so it is key”, she concluded.
Yesterday, the White House National Security Advisor, Susan Rice, announced that the United States government will declassify secret documents related to the dictatorship in Argentina.