The Mercosur Parliament (Parlasur) provided strong support for the Argentine Government's policies regarding the Malvinas Cause. It was in the framework of a meeting of the Parlasur Committee on International, Interregional and Strategic Planning Affairs, held through a virtual platform and channeled by the Malvinas Subcommittee, to which the Secretary of the Malvinas, Antarctica and the South Atlantic of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Daniel Filmus, was invited.
During the meeting, which took place on May 18, Filmus provided a detailed report on the latest efforts made by Argentina and the next steps to be followed. “From the Ministry of Foreign Affairs we follow the guidelines set forth by the Nation's President, Alberto Fernández, who assured during his inaugural address that the claim of sovereignty established in the First Transitory Provision of our National Constitution is among his government's foreign policy priorities, and he works intensively to make it a State policy”, said the Secretary.
Filmus also stressed that “in this direction, the President has once again taken the area dedicated to this topic to the status of a State Secretariat and has called for joint work by all political and social sectors without sectoral or partisan distinctions”.
“The Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs has strengthened the work that it carries out at the national and bilateral level and in the multilateral organizations in which it participates. It also carries out actions in the Argentine embassies and through the Commissions for Dialogue on Malvinas that are being established in many countries”, he added.
Those who participated in the meeting stressed that the Malvinas Cause is not a matter exclusively for the Argentines, but for each and every country of Latin America. The meeting, chaired by the parliamentarian Oscar Laborde, had a wide participation of parliamentarians from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela.
The members of Parlasur reaffirmed during the meeting the support of their countries and governments for the Malvinas Cause, and the need for multilateral organizations such as the Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations (UN) to work so that bilateral dialogue with the United Kingdom, in the terms set out by UN Resolution 2065, becomes the path to recover the exercise of sovereignty over the Malvinas.
“We are convinced that there is no place for colonialism in the 21st century. For this reason, we will continue working on a daily basis, always through the path of peace and diplomacy, in order to advance in the negotiation process that allows us to find a definitive solution to the Malvinas Question”, said Filmus.
In relation to the support of the countries of the region, the Secretary of the Malvinas stated that “since the usurpation of the Malvinas Islands by the United Kingdom in 1833, Latin American countries have expressed their solidarity with Argentina and affirmed that it was a colonial aggression that attacked the sovereignty of the entire region. From its formation, regional multilateral organizations also echoed our country's claim”.
To the annual declarations of the OAS Assembly in support of the content of UN Resolution 2065, more recently, numerous manifestations of Mercosur, Unasur, Celac, Olade, ALADI, the Rio Group, were added. the Ibero-American Summits, the Summit of African and Latin American countries, the Summit of Arab and Latin American countries, the Zone of Peace and Cooperation of the South Atlantic (ZPCAS), the Parlatino and the Parlasur, among others, who raised their voices over the Malvinas Question with a strong support for the position of the Argentine Republic.
“These renewed signs of support show that the controversy has established itself as a cause of all the countries in the region. Not only because the territorial usurpation hurts Argentina and the entire Southern Cone, but also because the consequences of this colonial permanence constitute an attack on the sovereignty, integration and development of the entire continent”, Filmus concluded.
