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Argentine Senate approves projects on sovereignty in the Falklands and Antarctica

He Senate of Argentina yesterday passed, unanimously, two bills, promoted by the President Alberto Fernández, which seek to “reaffirm the sovereignty” of the trans-Andean country over the Falkland, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands -all under the administration of the United Kingdom- and its surrounding maritime spaces, as reported by the Argentine Chancellery through a statement.

One of the projects proposes the creation of the National Advisory Council for Malvinas Policies, while the other establishes a “New demarcation of the outer limit of the Argentine platform” beyond 200 miles, according to the letter.

The Minister of RR.EE. transandino, Felipe Solá, He stated that both initiatives “aim to strengthen our sovereign presence, our economic activity and promote memory with concrete actions, by the heroes of the Malvinas and by others who gave life in Antarctica.”

The secretary of the Falklands, Antarctica and South Atlantic, Daniel Filmus, He stressed that the parliamentarians agreed that “the Malvinas Question is necessary to be a true State policy”, and also welcomed the existence of a “General agreement on the importance of protecting our sovereign rights over the continental shelf, where there are resources that belong to the 44 million Argentines.”

“The decision to move forward on the issue of outer limits was made after the 2009 results of the National Commission on the Outer Limit of the Continental Shelf, which were accepted by the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in March 2017 ”, Adds the document.

“The result of that study, and its projection as a Law of the Nation once the Chamber of Deputies gives it a definitive sanction, will definitively reaffirm the Argentine rights over the resource of the bed and subsoil of the continental shelf and its natural wealth: minerals, hydrocarbons and animal species “, ends.

The Chilean Foreign Ministry, after an analysis carried out by the holder of the portfolio, Teodoro Ribera, and by technical teams of the ministry, issued the May 11 last a diplomatic note, addressed to its trans-Andean counterpart, where it states that the claims of the platform extended by the Casa Rosada in the Southern Sea area collide with those of Chile, and that this is a unilateral declaration by Argentina.

The diplomatic note was also sent, on May 23, to the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN) António Guterres.

On June 21, the Chilean Senate dispatched to third step the project that creates the Chilean Antarctic Statute, oriented to the protection and strengthening of the Chilean Antarctic sovereign rights; establishing the guiding principles of Antarctic policy and the exercise of its Antarctic powers; promoting the protection and care of the Antarctic environment and its dependent and associated ecosystems, as well as its nature as a nature reserve, dedicated to peace and scientific research, through the strengthening and deepening of the Antarctic Treaty System and the empowerment and regulation of Chilean Antarctic activities.

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