2024-02-18 23:05:39
The British Chancellor, David Cameronwill travel this week to the Falkland Islands as part of an official tour of South America that will also include stops in Brazil and Paraguay, according to sources from the United Kingdom Ministry of Foreign Affairs told local media.
“The Falkland Islands are a valuable part of the British family and we are clear that, as long as they want to remain that way, the issue of sovereignty (with Argentina) will not be the subject of discussion,” Cameron said before beginning his journey.
The visit that Cameron will make to the Malvinas will be the first that a British foreign minister has made since 2016 and will take place a month after the representative of the United Kingdom met with the president on January 17. Javier Miley during their joint attendance at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss city of Davos.
The meeting between Javier Milei and David Cameron
In that instance, according to the Government, Milei described the meeting with Cameron, who held the position of British Prime Minister between 2010 and 2016, as “excellent.”
After the meeting held in Switzerland, Milei stated that the Malvinas issue had not been delved into “in detail”, although he stressed that they had agreed to address the issue “as an item on a bilateral agenda.”
Milei and Cameron, for their part, spoke at that time about the possibility of strengthening commercial ties and promoting British investments in Argentina, among other topics.
In the Malvinas, Cameron intends to meet with the officials in charge of the government of the islands
“The people of the Falkland Islands should be proud of the modern community they have built. They have a thriving economy where, in addition to agriculture and fishing, conservation and sustainability are prioritized,” said Cameron, who He also has an official visit scheduled to Brazil and Paraguay, according to the British press.
Javier Milei’s relationship with the United Kingdom
After his electoral victory in the second round on November 19, Milei received congratulations from the United Kingdom government, which urged him to work for a “solid and productive relationship” between both countries, but highlighted that for London the conflict over sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands is “a closed matter.”
From his point of view, “it is obviously an issue that has been resolved for a long time. There are no plans to review that. “The position of the Falkland Islands has been resolved for some time and will not change,” the British government stated in a statement.
The United Kingdom and Argentina fought a war in 1982 over the possession of the Malvinas, whose sovereignty our country claims in all international forums.
The UN Special Committee on Decolonization annually discusses the issue and regularly votes on a resolution calling for negotiations over the islands. The General Assembly approves a similar text.
During the campaign, Milei declared in various interviews that Argentina lost the war and must “make every effort to recover the islands through diplomatic channels.”
