Stubborn Retention of Empire: British 'misrepresentations' on sovereignty of Malvinas Islands challenged again by Argentina

Illustration by Jose Eduardo Enrique

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A/68/978

General Assembly
Distr.: General
20 August 2014
English
Original: Spanish

Sixty-eighth session
Agenda item 44

Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas)

Letter dated 13 August 2014 from the Permanent Representative of Argentina to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General:

I have the honour to write to you on instructions from my Government in order  to transmit herewith a reply to the letter dated 10 February 2014 from the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the United Nations (A/68/747), which in turn responded to the letter of 3 January 2014 sent by Argentina (A/68/698).

The Argentine Republic once again expresses its regret that the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has continued to misrepresent historical facts in a clear attempt to conceal the act of usurpation it committed in 1833; this act has, since the moment the British invaded, been the subject of continuing and repeated protests by Argentina.

Reaffirming the Argentine Republic’s legitimate sovereignty rights over the Malvinas Islands, South Georgia Islands and South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime areas, I should be grateful if you would have this letter circulated as a document of the General Assembly under agenda item 44, concerning the question of the Malvinas Islands.

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