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Last Updated: Feb 10, 2012 - 2:31:33 PM |
The
Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José
Miguel Insulza, expressed today his full support of the statements made
by the President of the Republic of Argentina, Cristina Fernández, who
upon vindicating the right of her country to the Malvinas Islands,
warned that nobody should expect from her Nation "a response outside of
politics and diplomacy." Insulza highlighted that President Fernández
“has made use of the only valid instrument to those who believe in peace
and democracy: political dialogue; and in this way, she has the full
support of all our region."
In full agreement with this position,
every year the OAS General Assembly reiterates the resolution adopted
by consensus on November 19, 1988, which requests "the governments of
the Argentine Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland to renew negotiations to find, as soon as possible, a
peaceful resolution to the sovereignty dispute."
The head of the
OAS highlighted the decision to repudiate "the militarization of the
South Atlantic" expressed by President Fernández, who also asserted she
will preserve "a region where peace predominates, where we have had
conflicts that we have resolved without arms, among us South Americans."
On
the determination of the Mercosur countries to refuse ships with the
Islands' flag, Insulza expressed his full agreement with this position
and noted that "Great Britain should not try to force the entry into
ports of Latin America and the Caribbean of a flag not recognized by the
international community."
The Secretary General of the
hemispheric organization warned about the danger of sending war ships to
the South Atlantic and emphasized the "nonsense in adding a bellicose
tone to a conflict with a country that in the last years has expressed
its desire for peace, and has not given any indications of wishing to
change that a policy." "On the contrary, Argentina is among the last on
the list of defense spending countries in our region, and that fact
alone speaks clearly about the Argentine people's vocation for peace,"
he insisted.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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