British Foreign Secretary David Cameron arrives in the Falkland Islands

The British Chancellor, David Cameronarrived this Monday at Falkland Islandsreported the PA agency, on a trip to a territory that he described before his departure “as a valuable part of the family” of the UK.

According to the Press Association (PA), the plane carrying the British Foreign Minister landed at Mount Pleasant air base, in the archipelago where Argentina It is UK They fought a war in 1982.

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The head of British diplomacy began a trip that will also take him to Paraguayfor a G20 meeting in Brazil is already the headquarters of UN in New York.

He Ministry of Foreign Affairswhen announcing the trip on Sunday, he recalled that, during his visit to Malvinas, Cameron “We will reiterate the commitment of the UK defend the islanders’ right to self-determination.”

Cameron announced that it will visit some of the battle sites from the 1982 war between Argentina It is UK.

This trip by the British Chancellor comes just over a month after the meeting he had with Javier Mileion January 17th, at Davos World Economic Forumwhich the Argentine president then described as “great”.

During the electoral propagandathe now Argentine president had said that “We had a war that we lost and we have to make every effort to recover the islands through diplomatic channel”.

In turn, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on that occasion that it was a “warm and cordial meeting”, adding that on the topic Malvinas “they would agree to disagree and do so politely.”

The archipelago, located 400 kilometers from the Argentine coast and almost 13 thousand kilometers from UKit was the scene of a 74-day war in 1982, which left 649 Argentines and 255 Britons dead.

In 2013, in a referendum in the territory of just 2,000 inhabitants, 99.8% of voters voted to remain under British sovereignty.

The visit of Cameron It is the first by a member of the British government since 2016, when the then Defense Secretary, michael fallontraveled to the South Atlantic archipelago.

Argentina argues that the islands, occupied by UK in 1833, they have been part of its territory since it became independent from the Spanish crown in 1816.

Source: Elcomercio

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