The Foreign Minister of Argentina, Pablo Quirno, has again referred this Wednesday to the possibility that Buenos Aires will advance in its claim of sovereignty over the Falkland Islands. His words come just a day after the U.S. President, Donald Trump, hinted that he might review Washington's support for the United Kingdom in this dispute, and on the eve of the speech that the head of the Casa Rosada, Javier Milei, is scheduled to deliver to the nation on this same issue.
In response to questions from journalists about whether Argentina sees it feasible to regain control of the archipelago, Quirno answered briefly but emphatically: "There are always chances, we are always closer," just before intervening in an event organized by the Libertad y Progreso Foundation under the slogan "Winds of Change."
During his participation in the panel of said event, the head of Foreign Affairs reiterated that "the Falklands are Argentine" and emphasized that the Executive of the Río de la Plata country has "an obligation and a responsibility" to protect its "interests there."
Next, Quirno denounced that "today there are things happening in the Falklands that are unilateral decisions by the United Kingdom," decisions that, he specified, not only the Argentine Government rejects, but also clearly repudiates.
In that same vein, he stressed that "Argentina must have all possible tools to defend our interests in the best way and to achieve the objective of all Argentines: to have sovereignty over the Argentine Falklands."
The controversy over the sovereignty of the islands has been dragging on since the 19th century and reached its peak with the war that began on April 2, 1982, by the Argentine dictatorship, a conflict that resulted in the death of 255 British soldiers and about 650 Argentines. After just over two months of fighting, the South American country was forced to withdraw from the archipelago.