President Alberto Fernández said that “being sovereign is nothing other than the possibility of recovering the right to decide for ourselves” when presenting the Interministerial Working Group 'Malvinas Agenda 40 years' at the San Martín Palace, headquarters of the Argentine Foreign Ministry. . “When we talk about sovereignty we always end up talking about the Malvinas because our territorial sovereignty is there, broken, broken, stained. May no one ever steal our love for the Malvinas, may no one ever take away the right we have over that land, let us never forget that 40 years ago hundreds of Argentines went there to leave their lives and we have a duty to the memory of each one of them. ", he claimed. Accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship, Santiago Cafiero, and the Secretary of the Malvinas, Antarctica and South Atlantic, Guillermo Carmona, the Head of State stated this Friday; “We are going to continue working through diplomatic channels, convincing the world that the Malvinas are, were and will be Argentine.” The president explained that “sovereignty today is a multidimensional concept” that includes the food, cultural and environmental aspects, among others, and stated that “being sovereign is not having to ask anyone's permission to carry out a government program and that has a lot to do.” "What to do with not getting into debt."

“Being sovereign is also recovering the ability to manage that debt in such a way that the Argentine people do not suffer when paying it,” he indicated during the activity in which members of the Armed Forces, former Malvinas combatants and family members also participated. the crew of the ARA San Juan. For his part, Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero announced the opening of a sub-headquarters of the Malvinas Secretariat in Ushuaia and said that “recovering the full exercise of sovereignty of the Malvinas has become an aspiration for the highest identity of our country. It is a unanimous feeling of the Argentine people and this is reflected at the constitutional level.” The event was attended by the heads of the Foreign Relations Commissions of the Senate, Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, and of Deputies, Eduardo Valdés. Also participating in the event were the Ministers of Defense, Jorge Taiana; Productive Development, Matías Kulfas; Education, Jaime Perczyck; Science, Technology and Innovation, Daniel Filmus; Interior, Eduardo de Pedro; Public works, Gabriel Katopodis and Labor, Claudio Moroni.

The Interministerial Working Group “Malvinas Agenda 40 years” will aim to develop strategies for the dissemination and awareness of national sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands, South Georgia Islands, South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime spaces under the motto " Malvinas unites us." During the event, in which Argentine governors and ambassadors to different countries of the world and multilateral organizations participated virtually, the Coordinator of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (COPLA) of the Foreign Ministry, Frida Armas Pfrter, presented a copy of the New Bicontinental Map of the Argentine Republic to the president of the Argentine Federation of Municipalities (FAM) and Mayor of Tafí Viejo, Javier Noguera, who will be responsible for distributing it to all the districts of the country. The meeting was held within the framework of Sovereignty Day, which is commemorated on November 20 to remember the battle of the Vuelta de Obligado.