MADRID 4 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Argentine Foreign Minister, Diana Mondino, has promised this Thursday the recovery of the Malvinas Islands – called by London as the Falkland Islands – after the United Kingdom has returned the Chagos archipelago to Mauritius, thus ending the last colony. English in Africa.
“The long dispute between Great Britain and Mauritius reached a conclusion today (…) We celebrate this step in the right direction and ending obsolete practices. By following the path we have begun, with concrete actions and not empty rhetoric, we will recover the full sovereignty of our Malvinas Islands. The Malvinas were, are and will always be Argentine,” Mondino expressed on his social network account X.
Shortly before, the British authorities for the Falklands have acknowledged that there may be certain “concerns” in the territory after the British Government has returned the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but have noted that “the legal and historical contexts” of these two archipelagos They are different. Furthermore, they have noted that London “will not accept anything that risks endangering the sovereignty of other overseas territories.”
These statements come after the governments of the United Kingdom and Mauritius have announced a historic agreement, reached after two years of negotiations, according to which London will return the Chagos archipelago, colonized more than half a century ago, to the African country, a fact that It caused the displacement of the entire population of the islands.
The agreement will also allow the Diego García military base to continue to be operated jointly by the United Kingdom and the United States “for an initial period of 99 years.”
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