The Government called the Malvinas Islands “Malvinas” and then erased it

It appeared on the website argentina.gob.ar, after the meeting between Mondino and the vice president of the Red Cross for the identification of soldiers in the Darwin cemetery.

23 de October de 2024 19:36

Government publication referring to the Malvinas as Malvinas/Malvinas which was later deleted.

In a repeatedly embarrassing episode, the Government website argentina.gob.ar reproduced on October 22 a statement that the Foreign Ministry had released a week earlier, in which it also called the Malvinas Islands the Malvinas; the name the English use to refer to the Argentine territory usurped by Great Britain. After the uproar caused by the viralization of that text, the statement disappeared from the official domain today.

On Wednesday, October 16, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs led by Diana Mondino published a first version on cancillería.gob.ar , regarding the meeting between Mondino and the vice president of the International Red Cross, Gilles Carbonier. The meeting's main objective was to advance the identification program of the bodies of combatants from the Malvinas War, buried in the Darwin cemetery.

Yesterday, the Government's website published a similar statement about the meeting, but which also mentioned the Malvinas as the Malvinas: "The Argentine Minister of Foreign Affairs, Diana Mondino, received Gilles Carbonier, Vice President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), on Wednesday, October 16, to discuss the resumption of negotiations on the Third Plan of the Humanitarian Project, aimed at identifying Argentine combatants killed in the Malvinas/Malvinas Islands during the South Atlantic conflict of 1982."

Amid the controversy generated by the publication, the Foreign Ministry clarified to the press that the official statement issued by the ministry on October 16 did not contain “any errors.” Along those lines, the same sources said they did not know which area of the Executive was in charge of disseminating the other document. In other words, they disassociated themselves from having given the word.

In fact, a few hours later, it was Diana Mondino herself who used her X account to clarify the situation. “It is absolutely false that the Foreign Ministry issued a statement in which we called our Malvinas Islands by another name,” said the official after it was revealed today that the Executive had deleted the term from the text, which was posted on the Argentina.gob.ar website.

“With regard to the malicious version published on the Government website, we are identifying the person responsible in order to fire him. We will go all out against anyone who, guided by leftist ideology, threatens the interests of Argentines. The Malvinas are, were and will always be Argentine, we are working to recover them,” said Mondino.

The release of the statement that referred to the islands as “Malvinas” came after a few days ago a map of the Argentine Republic was mistakenly projected in the Casa Rosada without the demarcation of the Malvinas Islands. On that occasion, the error occurred at a meeting aimed at promoting the application of the Regime of Incentives for Large Investments (RIGI) in the mining sector, organized by the Secretariat of Strategic Affairs of the Cabinet Office. The failed display caused unrest in political sectors and in war veterans centers.

The meeting between Mondino and Carbonier

The statement was published after a meeting between Mondino and Carbonier, to resume the pending negotiations to finalize the third phase of the Humanitarian Project Plan, aimed at progressing in the identification of the last mass grave containing the bodies of Argentine combatants killed during the 1982 war between Argentina and Great Britain.

By Agenda Malvinas

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