The government of Javier Milei sent a complaint note to United Kingdom for its decision to expand “unilateral” the fishing exclusion zone around the Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, which are part of the island territories in the South Atlantic, whose sovereignty Argentina claims.
The sending of the note, dated February 27, was confirmed this Friday by the spokesperson for the Argentine Presidency, Manual Adorni, in his usual press conference at the Casa Rosada (seat of Government).
The message, sent by the Argentine Foreign Ministry to the British Embassy in Buenos Aires, expresses the rejection of the Milei Government “to the announcement made by the illegitimate government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on February 26, 2024, through which it makes public the establishment of additional conservation measures to be applied to a supposed ‘marine protected area’ that was illegally created in 2012″ in the surrounding waters of both archipelagos.
“Argentina reiterates its rejection of any claim by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to adopt and apply British legislation in the area of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime areas, which form an integral part of the national territory. Argentinian”states the note.
The Argentine Government maintained that the announced measure “constitutes a unilateral and illegitimate action by the United Kingdom, “incompatible” with the United Nations resolutions that urge both countries – which fought a war in 1982 over the sovereignty of the Malvinas, Georgia and South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime areas – to refrain from adopting unilateral decisions and negotiate a way out of the conflict. controversy.
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron traveled to the Falklands last February in what was the first visit by a head of UK diplomacy in 30 years.
The Argentine Foreign Minister, Diana Mondino, referred to that visit in an ironic way on her networks, in which she valued “the gesture” of the former British Prime Minister “to include Argentina in his visit to the region” and expressed his desire to receive him on another occasion “also in Buenos Aires.”
Subsequently, both met in Brazil at the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Summit and, according to the Argentine Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship, stated “things in their place” during the bilateral meeting.
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Source: Gestion
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