‘We are not going to change the Falklands for vaccines or for debt’

President Alberto Fernández affirmed that “being sovereign today is not asking anyone for permission to carry out a government program” and is “recovering the ability to manage the debt in such a way that the Argentine people do not suffer when it comes to paying it.”

This was stated by the president when he headed in the San Martín Palace, headquarters of the Foreign Ministry, the launch of the Interministerial Work Table “Malvinas 40 Years Agenda”, within the framework of the Sovereignty Day commemoration.

“Being sovereign today is not having to ask anyone for permission to carry out a government program, that has to do with not getting into debt. Anyone who gets into debt inevitably ends up conditioned. Creditors always condition us,” said the president in his speech.

“Being sovereign today is not having to ask anyone for permission to carry out a government program, that has to do with not getting into debt”Alberto Fernandez

“When we take on debt and we use that debt to pay others who came to do their business in Argentina or to allow others to take money they brought to speculate, what we do by contracting debt is to condition our future on creditors”, added.

In this context, Fernández said: “To be sovereign today is to regain the ability to manage the debt in such a way that the Argentine people do not suffer when it comes to paying it” and affirmed that “it is not an easy task and diplomacy has a lot to do with it. that”.

On the other hand, when recalling the battle of the Vuelta de Obligado, for which the Day of Sovereignty is commemorated tomorrow, the President said that this event “teaches us that the one who wins is the one who never lowers his arms, and follows his fight and his fight, “he maintained that” sovereignty today is a multidimensional concept. “

“Some ask why we commemorate a battle in which we did not win. As I said the other day, sometimes winning is not winning, the one who does not lower his arms wins,” said Fernández, recalling the phrase he pronounced this week in the act in Plaza de Mayo for the Day of the Militancy, after the legislative elections last Sunday.

When presenting the project “Malvinas unites us”, which will aim to put together a federal and participatory agenda to mark the 40th anniversary of the war next year, the President affirmed in his message that the islands “were, are and will be Argentine Too bad they are despite some “and he maintained that the archipelago” we are not going to change either for vaccines or for debt. “

“Some minimize those lands and dare to say that we pay for vaccines by delivering to the islands. It amazes me that they say so in public. We are not going to change the Falklands for vaccines or for debt; we are going to fight until they are Argentine again. “, stressed the president, accompanied by Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero and the Secretary of Malvinas, Guillermo Carmona.

Likewise, the president said that “the whole of Argentina wants to recover that piece of land for which many Argentines died” and reaffirmed that “we are not going to stop until the Falkland Islands are Argentine again.”

“Let no one steal our love for the Malvinas, let no one take away our right over that land. The Malvinas unites us,” said the President when he paid tribute to the ex-combatants present at the ceremony at the San Martín Palace: among them the former head of the Army, Martin Balza, and the director of the Malvinas Museum, Edgardo Esteban, among other veterans.

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