BUENOS AIRES, April 3 (NNN-Xinhua) — The Argentine government on Saturday reaffirmed its “unwavering objective of recovering full sovereignty” over the Malvinas Islands, 40 years after the conflict with Britain over control of the South Atlantic territory ended.
“The Malvinas were, they are, and will be Argentinean, and we will always keep the commitment we assumed with the memory of those who died,” President of Argentina Alberto Fernandez said during a ceremony commemorating the conflict in Buenos Aires.
“Argentina reiterates its search for a negotiated and peaceful solution to the dispute of sovereignty, because we have an unwavering objective of recovering full sovereignty,” Fernandez added.
Expressing his gratitude to the Argentine soldiers who sacrificed their lives in the conflict, he said that Argentina continues “denouncing before the world (the British presence on the Malvinas Islands) as one of the last vestiges of colonialism.”
Argentina and Britain battled over the islands from April 2 to June 14, 1982.
