Wednesday 15 February 2012

Argentine Media - Gov't accepts UN mediation offer over Malvinas dispute



Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman.

Through a letter sent to United Nations (UN) General Assembly President, Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, Argentina announced that it had accepted the organization's mediation offer to find a pacific solution to the Malvinas sovereignty conflict with the United Kingdom.

Timerman’s letter also said thanked the international organization’s “good disposition to coordinate a peaceful solution in our country and the United Kingdom in the Malvinas sovereignty matter.”

“Argentina accepts all initiatives and suggestions” that may help solve the conflict “with great interest and attention, and requests that Argentina’s position on the matter is communicated to the United Kingdom,” the letter concludes.

The letter, sent to the UN by Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman, stated that “Argentina had reiterated on multiple occasions their openness to resume said negotiations but it is faced with persistent negativity from Britain.”

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