President Cristina Fernandez reiterated today that it is “an injustice that in the XXI century there is a colonial enclave” in the Islas Malvinas ( Falkland) Islands and returned to complain because the UK is “preying on our resources ictícola and oil” in the archipelago.
The Head of State revealed that requested by letter to the International
Red Cross to intercede so that “we can identify the Argentine and British,” who died in the Falklands War, and yet his remains were not specified.
“It is absurd” to claim the territory as its own island, recalling that “members of an offshore platform in Argentina,” he said Fernandez, during the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the start of the war in the islands. (DyN)
“Colonialism is a disgrace to humanity”, said Boudou
Vice President’s Office, Amado Boudou, said that “colonialism is a disgrace to humanity” and said that Argentina will recover “sooner rather than later” effective sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.
Boudou spoke to the more than 5,000 participants of the above traditional commemoration vigil for the 30 years of war with Great Britain, 1982.
Accompanied by the Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo and the
Las Malvinas son Argentinas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
secretary general of the Presidency, Oscar Parrilli, Vice President highlighted the “serious policy on diplomatic recovery of the islands national government has been keeping from Nestor (Kirchner) to Cristina (Fernandez). ”
“I come in principle to transfer you to the people riograndense a big hug from our dear president,” said Boudou before automatically “Falklands feeling that flies to all the inhabitants of this city.”
Elsewhere in his speech, the official view that the recovery of the Malvinas be affected by “force of reason, peace and consistency of our ideas.”
Alongside the national delegation was also the governor of Tierra del Fuego, Fabiana Rios, and the mayor of Rio Grande, Gustavo Melella and hundreds of veterans from around the country.
The chairman of the Veterans Federation of Argentina, Juan Fernandez, thanked the “commitment shown by the national government in the recovery of the islands and the Falklands cause in general.
“There is no denying that there was a major change from 2003 onwards and the main force behind this change was a man who is no longer with us and was called Nestor Kirchner,” said Fernandez.
He added that this commitment “doubled in the mandate of the current president” because “she has done what he said when he promised that veterans were going to have what we deserved.”
“We feel the embrace of all Latin America,” said Fabiana Ríos
The governor of Tierra del Fuego, Fabiana Rios, said today that “feel the embrace of Latin America” around the Malvinas issue, to participate in the main event for the Veterans Day and Memorial in the war of 1982.
“We feel the embrace of all Latin America”, he said Rios, who also participated in the traditional memorial where every year the Veterans Center and the town of Rio Grande recalls the heroes of the Falklands.
The provincial president said: “These 30 years are commemorated with this strength, the strength of a people begins to malvinizarse”.
He recalled: “For many years the Fuegians we feel alone in memory, in honor and in sorrow for our dead, but now feel the embrace of all Latin America and around the country.”
Rios was accompanied by Vice President, Amado Boudou, the Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo, Secretary General of the Presidency, Oscar Parrilli, and national, provincial and municipal. (NA)
The British destroyer “Dauntless” sets sail to the South Atlantic on Wednesday
The destroyer “HMS Dauntless,” one of the most modern warships in the UK, will sail to the South Atlantic on Wednesday to perform “routine patrol”, said a Defense Ministry spokesman.
The ship is one of six new Type 45 destroyers available to the British Navy, is equipped with an advanced navigation system that makes it difficult to be detected by radar. (Reuters)
“It is the great national cause”
For his part, President of the Veterans Center in Rio Grande, Horacio Chavez remarked that “Malvinas is the great national cause that unites all Argentines without any distinction.
“You guys did great this vigil. We are proud of the people we are part of,” said Chavez told a crowd that stand the prevailing wind and cold along the South Atlantic.
