Minutes before 3pm yesterday, Saturday 9th November, the British scientific icebreaker RRS Sir David Attenborough , sailing under the Malvinas Islands flag, cast off from the port of Montevideo and headed south-east. It is currently located some 300 km east of Mar de Ajó.
This can be verified through the satellite tracking platform marinetraffic.com , which follows the journey of the ship that had moored in the port of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, on Wednesday 6 at 11 in the morning.
The activity of the scientific icebreaker in that capital was broadcast on the official account of the National Port Administration of Uruguay on X. Who shows images of the supply process during those three days, with the purpose of starting the 2024-2025 Antarctic season.
🦭On research tasks for the British Antarctic Survey, the British icebreaker RSS "Sir David Attenborough" stops in #puertomontevideo (2020).
🐧It is one of the most advanced polar research vessels in the world, able to penetrate ice sheets up to 1 m thick. pic.twitter.com/zjieHnjI3F
On its way to the Malvina Islands, the ship left the port of Harwich in the United Kingdom, stopped at the Portuguese island of Madeira, then at the port of Recife in Brazil, and recently in Montevideo.
Neither the Argentine Foreign Ministry, nor the Casa Rosada, nor any member of the Argentine National Congress, much less the governors, have expressed an opinion on the presence of this ship that entered the port of Montevideo flying the “Malvinas” flag, within an area “governed by the Treaty of the River Plate signed by Argentina and Uruguay in 1973/74; and without Argentina having been informed in accordance with Decree 256/10” . And also, “violating the Declaration of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) of 2011 on Argentine rights in the Malvinas that prohibited all logistics to ships flying the “Malvinas” flag; as described alone by the greatest expert that Argentina has on the South Atlantic and Fisheries, César Lerena.
Inaction, disinterest, indifference or, worse still, letting the British do as they please on the part of the National Government and, specifically, the Foreign Ministry, does not help to sustain our claim. Even less so as an attitude towards the governments and nations of the world that support the Argentine claim in the United Nations.
