Foreign Ministry blasts UK PM's comments over Malvinas War

The Argentine Foreign Ministry made a sharp comeback to the comments made by UK Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday, on the thirtieth anniversary of the Malvinas War between Argentina and the UK, blasting the UK's persistent glorification of colonialism. Cameron yesterday labelled Argentina’s invasion of the Islands, “a profound wrong.”

A communiqué sent by the Foreign Ministry today used the very words uttered by the UK leader himself, to affirm that “the profound error” was precisely “persisting with colonialism” which “constructs wellbeing among a public who are placed upon a centre under military and cultural subjugation, and the plundering of the natural resources belonging to other people.”

“That is the story of the United Kingdom, and millions of human beings can give testimony to the fact, still today,” went on the Foreign Ministry’s statement.

Yesterday during the Malvinas War commemorations in the UK, Cameron stated that Britons were “righty proud of the role Britain played in righting a profound wrong,” referring to the Argentine invasion of the Islands.

In the same statements, the UK PM further stated that, “thirty years ago today the people of the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands suffered an act of aggression that sought to rob them of their freedom and their way of life.”

The Argentine Foreign Ministry’s communiqué today continued to turn Cameron’s words against him, and stated that, “A profound error was expelling the Argentine population from the Malvinas Islands in 1833, violating rights that the Prime Minister says he defends, and implanting, under a forced colonialist plan; a British population.”