Following the controversial treaty with Great Britain on 24 September, where they reissued the disastrous Foradori-Duncan Agreement, Foreign Minister Diana Mondino reiterated "full sovereignty over our Malvinas Islands".
The diplomat's statements came hours after the United Kingdom reached an agreement with the Chagos Republic on the return of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean.
"We welcome this step in the right direction and ending obsolete practices," Mondino said on her X account, when all the actions of Javier Milei's government, of which she is a part, do exactly the opposite of the coherent policy carried out by the Mauritian authorities.
The long dispute between Britain and Mauritius came to a conclusion today, with Mauritians successfully regaining their territory of Chagos. This milestone means the end of the last British colony in Africa.
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The statements in his account of X, reveal Mondino's fallacy in wanting to find some analogy with the agreement between Great Britain and Mauritius; by stating that: " Following the path started, with concrete actions and not empty rhetoric, we will recover the full sovereignty of our Malvinas Islands" , he qualified.
The Malvinas issue generated tensions within the libertarian government. On October 1, Vice President Victoria Villarruel harshly criticized the agreement signed with England on the Malvinas Islands. Through her account on the social network X, she stated: " Everyone knows what Malvinas represents for me and that is my limit and forces me to express myself. The proposed agreement announced with the United Kingdom is contrary to the interests of our Nation."
In this case, after diplomatic and judicial actions in the international arena of the African country, the United Kingdom is forced to return the Chagos Archipelago to the Republic of Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean, as announced by both countries on Thursday, following a "historic agreement" that will allow the British to maintain a joint military base with the United States.
"October 3, 2024. An unforgettable day to commemorate the full sovereignty of the Republic of Mauritius over its entire territory," the African country's Foreign Minister, Maneesh Gobin, commented on social media X.