(CNN Spanish) – The vice president of Argentina, Victoria Villarruel, criticized this Friday the agreements that the Government of President Javier Milei announced this week with the United Kingdom on the Malvinas Islands – Falkland, in English – an archipelago over which both countries fought a war in 1982. and over which they claim sovereignty.
Villarruel published a message on his United Nations Organization.
According to a statement from the Argentine Foreign Ministry, the agreement between both officials includes resuming negotiations on a Humanitarian Project Plan with the International Red Cross, organizing a trip so that relatives of soldiers who died during the Falklands War can visit their graves, conservation of fisheries and resume the flight between Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the islands, which once a month made a stopover in Córdoba, Argentina.
A day after the meeting, Mondino defended the agreement, which he described in his X account as “very positive news.” “As our Constitution says: the Argentine nation ratifies its legitimate and imprescriptible sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands,” he said.
For his part, Villarruel disqualified the proposal, which in his message this Friday he called “contrary to the interests of our nation.”
“Do they take us for fools? “They obtain material, concrete and immediate advantages, while they offer us crumbs as emotional consolation and weaken our possibility of negotiation,” said the vice president.
“It is unusual that while the United States offers us coast guard ships to protect our Argentine sea from extracontinental pillage, we propose to cooperate with the power that usurps our territory,” he added.
CNN contacted the Argentine Foreign Ministry for comment on Villarruel’s statements and is awaiting a response.
In his publication, Villarruel assures that “these are not words against our government,” although he says that it is “inevitable” to speak out on the matter “since it is an issue that touches every fiber of my identity and puts the permanent interests of our society at stake.” great nation.”
The Falklands War—in which 649 Argentine and 255 British soldiers died—ended on June 14, 1982 with a British victory. Currently, the archipelago is self-governed and administered as a British Overseas Territory, although Argentina maintains that it belongs to it.
This armed conflict is a new reason for dispute between the Milei Government and Vice President Villarruel, whose tensions have been exposed on several occasions since the president took office on December 10.
