The secretary for affairs related to the Malvinas Islands, Guillermo Carmona, referred to Princess Ana’s visit to the islands and considered that her presence in Argentine territory “demonstrates that international law continues to be violated” and noted that “the self-determination is a verse ”.
“The visit of Princess Anne, a member of the British royal family, is a visit that reveals the reality of the Malvinas and it is a visit that adds reasons to Argentina” Carmona said this Saturday during an interview for And above the burning sun on Radio Rebelde on the journey of the princess with her husband, Vice Admiral Timothy Laurence, repudiated by the Argentine Foreign Ministry.
The secretary pointed out: “This lady he visited the Argentine national territory without any gesture towards the Argentine government and people. This monarchy that tries to look cool, like this cause of international interest, does these kinds of things that involve violating international law.”
“The presence of a member of the British royal family in the Malvinas shows that he continues to violate international law because the British authorities, instead of going to Malvinas, what they have to do is sit down at the negotiating table with Argentina, as imposed by more than 50 United Nations resolutions”, remarked Carmona.
In this sense he specified that Ana’s visit also reveals that “This whole theme of self-determination of the islanders, all these proposals, are a verse. What is there is a colony”. “With the argument that the islanders don’t want to, that they have no doubts about their rights … They are just evasiveness that will last until international circumstances allow them to continue supporting them,” she considered.
“I think the position of the Argentine government has been very important, very clear. The Farnesina has expressed itself concretely in rejecting this action and we have denounced at an international level that here is a sample of colonialism, that colonialism which must no longer exist”, warned Carmona.
The secretary underlined that this fact “should be cause for reflection” also for Argentina: “If we persist in opposition, if we expose and denounce colonialism, we will have the opportunityas the Republic of Mauritius is having today, we Argentines will have the opportunity to recover those territories that belong to us”.
And it highlighted the president’s attitude Alberto Fernández when, who he was then, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson asked him for a meeting. “Johnson told him: ‘We want food, energy and minerals from Argentina.’ And Alberto Fernández told him with all dignity “first let’s talk about sovereignty over the Malvinas, then, if you want, we can talk about everything else”. “It seems to me that this is the position that we are expressing very well at the moment”, concluded the Secretary of Affairs relating to the Malvinas Islands.
