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Milei said he would not expel the inhabitants of the Falkland Islands if Argentina regains the islands
The President said in New York that the islanders would be treated “with dignity and justice” in the event of a recovery of Argentine sovereignty. He also took the claim to the UN and questioned the lack of effect of its resolutions on the dispute with the United Kingdom.
Javier Milei said in New York that, if Argentina were to regain the Falkland Islands, the archipelago’s current inhabitants would not be expelled. During an interview at the Economic Club with John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg, the President said those people would be treated “with dignity and justice.”
In that context, the president rejected the British argument based on the self-determination of the islanders and said that, in this case, it does not apply because, as he put it, “Great Britain displaced a previous population and installed another one.” He also insisted that Argentina considers the islands to belong to it “by geography, by right and by history.”
The claim over the Falklands was also part of his speech before the United Nations General Assembly. There he said it is a “national cause” and questioned the body’s effectiveness in enforcing its own resolutions. Milei recalled Resolution 3149 and pointed out that, despite the passage of decades, unilateral changes continue while the dispute remains open.
He also warned that an institution loses authority when its decisions have no practical consequences. In that regard, he listed measures taken by Argentina against the exploitation of resources in the disputed area, including diplomatic notes, legal actions, sanctions against involved companies and the submission to Congress of a National Sovereignty Defense Law.
After the speech, the United Kingdom responded with a statement in which it again backed the islanders’ right to self-determination and reaffirmed, according to Infobae and Radio Mitre, that it has no doubts about its sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, the South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime areas.
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