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Aguirre Lanari

THE RECORD WRITES THIS SPEAKER AS AGUIRRE LANARI

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1982-09-24
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  1. “Following the creation of the United Nations the treatment in the Organization of the item of decolonization brought with it the adoption of the well-known General Assem¬bly resolution 1514 (XV), which deals with decoloniza¬tion, as well as resolutions 2065 (XX) and 3160 (XXVIII) and 31/49, which is specifically applicable to the case of the Malvinas. 247.”

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  2. “Thus began an uninterrupted series of Argentinean protests against the British occupation and in all cases these were arbitrarily rejected by the Government of the United Kingdom. 244. The Republic of Argentina never agreed to the British occupation, nor did it ever give up its sover¬eign rights over the territory of which it was divested by force. All this is more than enough to show the inequity of any claims of acquisition by the United Kingdom. 245. Let the Assembly compare the historic and con¬sistent stand of my country with the silence of Great Britain in 1825 and its ominous aggression of 1833. 246. Let us come back now to our times.”

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  3. “On 3 January 1833, eight year^ after Argentina was recognized as a sovereign State, and after the signing of the treaty of friendship, trade and naviga¬tion, British troops occupied the islands by force, bringing down the Argentinean flag, expelling Argentinean authorities and Argentinean citizens, residents of the area and forcing them to go to Montevideo. The Argentinean population was thus completely replaced by a British military garrison. 243. On 15 and 22 January of that same year, the Government of Argentina sent a protest to the Charge d'affaires of Great Britain in Buenos Aires, and on 17 June the Argentine Minister, Don Manuel Moreno, voiced the most energetic protest in London.”

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  4. “What must be emphasized, because it is a decisive point, is that the United Kingdom in 1825 recognized that the Republic of Argentina was a sovereign State, and at that time entered into a treaty of friendship, trade and navigation with Argentina and did not then voice any reservation with regard to its alleged rights over the Malvinas Islands or any other adjacent terri¬tories. This most clearly demonstrates that the United Kingdom was aware of the fact that it had absolutely no right over the Malvinas Islands and archipelago, whose sovereignty it questions today. 242.”

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  5. “The Republic of Argentina, having become independent from Spain, then succeeded Spain in all its rights, including the rights of sovereignty over the islands which belonged to Spain. By virtue of this, until 1833, the administra¬tion of the Malvinas was exercised by six Argentinean governors, under whose government my country had the peaceful and exclusive occupation of the archi¬pelago, without any discussion by the European powers of our claims, titles and rights to these territo¬ries.”

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  6. “In 1766 Port Egmont was established in the islet of Trinidad, the only territory occupied by the British in the Malvinas Islands, from which they were also expelled by the Buenos Aires Government on 10 June 1770. 240. Subsequently secret diplomatic negotiations led to the precarious restitution of those settlements to the British on condition that at a later date they would have to withdraw from them definitively, a commit¬ment which the United Kingdom fulfilled in 1774. Since then the United Kingdom virtually forgot all about the islands until it took them by force in 1833. 241. In the period between 1767 and 1810, a year when Argentina started on its road to independence, the Malvinas were administered by 20 governors appointed by the Spanish Crown.”

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  7. “The Government of the United Kingdom has attempted to obscure the very clear rights of the Republic of Argentina to claim territories of which it was divested by force; but the General Assembly is well aware of the historical background of the matter and the stubborn British attempts to distort it have come to naught. 239. Existing cartographic proofs offered by maps of that time demonstrate that the Malvinas Islands were discovered by Spanish navigators in the first half of the sixteenth century. Then, since the beginning of the seventeenth century, they were explored by French navigators until 1764, when Louis de Bougainville established the Port Louis settlement, now Soledad Island, a situation which gave rise to a Spanish protest and a subsequent recognition by France of the sover¬eignty of Spain over these territories.”

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  8. “The crisis to which I am referring, which resumed in an armed confrontation between Argentina and the United Kingdom, would not have taken place had colonialism and its vestiges been completely eliminated from the face of the earth. 237. The conflict which took place in the South Atlantic, comprising the Malvinas Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, shows that there is as yet no end to the efforts of the United Kingdom to cling to its colonial possessions and to maintain its privileges, something possible only in an international state of affairs which is based on the existence of unequal relations, supported in the main by the crude domination of force. 238.”

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  9. “Finally, before I reach the substance of my statement, I should like, as Minister for Foreign Affairs of a Latin American country, to greet most warmly the first Latin American Secretary-General, Mr. Javier Perez de Cuellar, to whom my country is deeply indebted for his earnest efforts during the South Atlantic crisis to reach a solution to the conflict. 236. This year my country had to deal with a grave international crisis rooted in the fact that even today, on the eve of the twenty-first century, there remain forms of colonial domination in the world, despite the efforts of the Organization and of the overwhelming majority of its Member States to eradicate them.”

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  10. “I should like to begin by congratulating the President on his election to the high office he has been asked to fill at this session of the General Assembly. His contribution as President of this forum will undoubtedly be invaluable in achieving the success we hope for in the tasks with which we have been entrusted, especially in the fulfillment of the principles and purpose of the Charter. 233. My country would also like to greet, through him, the friendly nation of Hungary, with which we have a very close and productive relationship. 234. Nor can I omit to take this opportunity to recall the outstanding performance of Mr. Kittani of Iraq, and to reaffirm our appreciation of the ability and effectiveness with which he carried out his task at a particularly difficult session of the General Assembly. 235.”

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