Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner ratified the claim of sovereignty over the Falkland Islands: “They are and will be Argentine”

President Alberto Fernández and Vice President Cristina Kirchner assured that “the Falkland Islands are and will be Argentine ” by writing a message on the social network Twitter on Veteran’s Day and the War Memorial.

On the 39th anniversary of the beginning of the conflict in the South Atlantic, the President indicated that “today, as every April 2, we honor the memory of our veteran and fallen heroes in the Malvinas war, and we claim our sovereignty over the territory ”.

To reinforce his claim, the President accompanied the post with a video with images and testimonies of the war veterans who assisted, as military nurses, the wounded during the war in the relocatable hospital of Comodoro Rivadavia.

The vice president, for her part, ratified the claim of Argentine sovereignty over the islands and he remembered the fallen and the veterans “with pride and honor.”

In a message that she published through her social networks, along with an image of Argentina and the archipelago occupied by the United Kingdom, Cristina remarked that “the islands are and will be #MalvinasArgentinas”.

For his part, Defense Minister Agustín Rossi used short but forceful phrases to commemorate this date. “We must not forget them. We must not forget them “, wrote next to a double image of the map of the Falkland Islands and the soldiers in combat.

On such an emblematic and significant day for all Argentines, the Foreign Ministry called on the United Kingdom to “resume bilateral negotiations

“The best way to honor them is to continue working every day to achieve the objective of recovering the effective exercise of sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands, South Georgia, the South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime spaces, for which many of them gave their life, “he said in a statement.

The Ministry headed by Felipe Solá also denounced “the existence of a British military base in the Islands that ignores all United Nations resolutions and the usurpation of the natural resources of the South Atlantic that belong to the Argentine people.”

And he stressed the need for the United Kingdom to “resume bilateral negotiations on sovereignty in the terms proposed by the United Nations in Resolution 2065 (XX) of the General Assembly and a plurality of resolutions from various international organizations and forums.”

The Minister of Economy, Martín Guzmán was one of the many officials who retweeted Cristina’s message; while the Chief of Staff, Santiago Cafiero did the same with Alberto’s tweet and then announced the creation of a Malvinas Commission to prepare commemorations for the 40 years of the war.

“We must move forward in putting the Malvinas heroes in their rightful place. The State still has debts with those who fought in defense of national interests, ”wrote Cafiero, who at the request of the President will send to Congress three bills that benefit veterans.

Days ago, Cafiero had said that “the State still has debts with those who fought in defense of national interests.”

The first bill establishes the Exception, Special and Optional Pension Regime for the Granting of Retirement Benefits It was intended for conscript soldiers ex-combatants of the Armed Forces who participated in the actions as civilians, said the official. And he added that “this initiative was already voted unanimously in Congress on November 16, 2016, but vetoed by former President Macri.”

Cafiero also pointed out that “the second initiative aims to institutionalize the National Program of Attention to the War Veteran granting it the character of a national law, which was created to guarantee the right to health, considering the pathologies experienced by those who were in combat ”.

Finally, he indicated that “the third project establishes a benefit of exemption from paying tolls on national routes and highways, destined for ex-conscript soldiers and civilians who have participated in the Malvinas Theater of Operations (TOM) in effective combat actions ”.

In the interior of the country, a project to recognize Malvinas veterans was also presented and its epicenter was the city of Córdoba.

The initiative, led by Councilor María Eva Ontivero, had the endorsement of Mayor Martin Llaryora and Vice Mayor Daniel Passerini. It consists of veterans they do not have to pay more the real estate tax, the automobile tax, they are granted free parking in the Capital, they do not have to pay to renew their driver’s license and that they be assigned exclusive plots in municipal cemeteries, etc.