BOGOTA (NNN-MERCOPRESS) - The British-Argentina-Falklands-Malvinas dispute is among the list of topics to be discussed at the coming VI Summit of the Americas, Colombian Foreign Affairs Minister Maria Angela Holguin said.
During a meeting with foreign correspondents here, Ms Holguin confirmed that the summit which takes place April 13 to15 in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia and to which have been invited the leaders of the region’s 34 countries, will accept the petition from Ecuador to debate the South Atlantic Islands dispute currently under British sovereignty.
However any declaration or statement on the issue “won’t go further than what has been said in the framework of the Organization of American States (OAS)”.
Holguin said that the 34 leaders or their representatives will support “Argentina’s sovereignty pretension over the Falklands-Malvinas”. Furthermore the leaders in Cartagena will call for a dialogue on the issue “and prop Britain to accept and sit to discuss”.
The Colombian host said that some countries such is the case of Ecuador would not let the opportunity by and will speak extensively about the Falklands-Malvinas, “even when there has been no forma request from Argentina”.
Any petition on the Falklands-Malvinas will most certainly make an issue, unanimous and that is calling to avoid the military presence in the South Atlantic, she said.
U.S president Barack Obama has confirmed his presence so has Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, which will not be expected to support the Argentine sovereignty claim over the Falklands, among other things because Ottawa’s head of state is Britain's Queen Elizabeth II.
The government of President Cristina Fernandez has been involved in a diplomatic offensive to collect support for Argentina’s claim over the Falklands-Malvinas ahead of the April 2 30th anniversary of the Argentine invasion of the Islands in 1982. -- NNN-MERCOPRESS
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