Faced with the consecutive silence of the Argentine Foreign Ministry and the country's highest academic organizations, for the fifth time since its beginning in 2019, the United Kingdom once again holds the controversial contest to take university students from Argentina and countries in the region to the Islands. Malvinas, with the aim of “getting to know the residents of the Falkand Islands”.
The initiative is promoted by the Foreign Office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Commonwealth of Nations of the United Kingdom; through its embassies in Buenos Aires and in this edition Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay also participate.
“Why would I like to meet my neighbors in the Malvina Islands?” is the British objective question that promotes a cultural exchange between advanced university students from the four South American nations with the Malvinas squatters, who will stay for a week in the house of a local family, learning about the history, culture and society of the islands usurped from Argentina, between January 11 and 18, 2025
To participate, contestants must submit a one-minute video answering in English the question: “Why would I like to meet my neighbors in the Malvina Islands?”
The winning person must be active on social networks and be willing to share their experience through those channels.
The student competition begins today, August 7, 2024 and will conclude on August 26, 2024 inclusive.
Fountain:
Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
