At a lunch held yesterday at the Rotary Club of Buenos Aires, Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino surprised by comparing Argentina's sovereignty dispute with the United Kingdom over the Malvina Islands, with a dispute between an owner and a tenant over an apartment.

“We are the legitimate owners and they are tenants and some will think they are squatters,” stated Javier Milei's Minister of Foreign Affairs.

He also said that the policy implemented by the government on the Malvinas seeks to end the “aggressiveness” between both countries.

“In recent years there was even aggression. If a company operates in the islands, it cannot operate in Argentina and thus a lot of issues where we have presented complaints to neighboring countries for allowing a plane to land that then continued to the Malvinas. That's over with us. We want to have a reasonable relationship, where we consider that we are the legitimate owners of the apartment, of the apartment called Malvinas, and they, hopefully, are tenants, although some will think they are squatters. But we are the owners of that place and what we want to do is maintain a relationship where we can work together,” said the official.

The minister was asked by the journalists present about sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands, to which Mondino responded with another question: "Did the aggressiveness we have had in recent years contribute anything?" and then answered himself: No. , he claimed.

"Before the war of '82, the teachers of Argentina came and went from Malvinas, there was State Gas, there was communication with the islands that was lost and especially in the last few years there was even aggressiveness with companies that operate in the Islands and cannot operate in Argentina,” he explained.

He also proposed a scenario of cooperation with the Kelpers and Great Britain beyond the sovereignty dispute.

“We have something called Blue Hole, which would give us the possibility of supervising, controlling, because it is something that is very important from an environmental point of view and neither they nor we are doing it. We have to start looking at some common issues, but they do not imply sovereignty. A joint effort, otherwise no one will do it today,” the chancellor concluded.

Differentiating himself from the national official, the governor of Tierra del Fuego, Gustavo Melella ; head of the province to whose jurisdiction the islands belong, described Mondino's expressions as “erroneous comments” in his account of but, on the contrary, a usurper, plunderer and colonialist."

Given some erroneous comments by national authorities, it is essential to remember that the State that usurped our #Malvinas Islands in 1833 is not a mere "tenant", but, on the contrary, a usurper, plunderer and colonialist.

In addition, he expressed to the Chancellor the "interest in coordinating joint policies for the defense of our rights", but not becoming "witnesses or accomplices of actions that could endanger our rights regarding the Malvinas Question."