The conditions "are in place" to restart flights to the Malvina Islands from Cordoba, Argentina's second largest city, said the Argentine Foreign Minister, Diana Mondino, to the British economic newspaper Financial Times . Although she did not say anything about the most important thing for the archipelago's usurping colony, such as the weekly connection from San Pablo (Brazil) to the Islands, which the government of Javier Milei has just enabled through an agreement that the Chancellor herself agreed with the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom, David Lammy; last September 24 in New York.
They are about the that flights were interrupted by British colonists themselves during the pandemic and were not resumed due to tensions between the United Kingdom and the government of Alberto Fernández, who left power on December 10 last year.
Now, following a more conciliatory position towards the United Kingdom by the Government of Javier Milei, Mondino said - in statements published this Monday to the Financial Times - that the "frequency" of the flights "would have to be determined by an airline that considers it convenient."
"What we have done as a country is to say that the conditions are in place for it to eventually happen," said Mondino about the flights between the country's second city and the Malvinas. An insignificant matter for Argentina and odious for the Kelpers who have no desire to establish contact with the nation they usurp.
Between 2019 and 2020, Chilean airline Latam operated a weekly flight to the South Atlantic islands from the Brazilian city of São Paulo, with a monthly stopover in the city of Córdoba.
Direct flights from Buenos Aires to the islands' airport are off the table for now due to opposition from islanders, who say Argentina has in the past used the direct connection to exert pressure by cancelling flights at short notice.
Milei believes that greater bilateral dialogue is essential to fulfill Argentina's constitutional mandate to recover the islands, which have been claimed by the South American nation since 1833.