Through his X network account, the Secretary of Malvinas, Antarctica South Atlantic Islands and International Affairs of Tierra del Fuego , reported last night that the British Harland and Wolff Shipyard received a notification yesterday, where the Fuegian government intimated purpose of “impeding the progress of the improvement of port infrastructure in the Malvinas.”
Today the company @HarlandWolffplc was notified of the summons from the @GobiernoTDF of @gustavomelella to prevent the progress of the improvement of port infrastructure in #Malvinas . The defense of our sovereignty is and will be non-negotiable. pic.twitter.com/OQjNgrqAkX
The notification had been sent 15 days ago and was received yesterday, Thursday, “so the peremptory deadlines begin to run for the company to begin regularizing its desire to advance in the infrastructure. And in the event that the Shipyard's response is not favorable, the judicialization process would begin there,” the official explained to Agenda Malvinas.
"The hiring of the company Harland and Wolff by the illegitimate and alleged island government to carry out this work is part of the British intention to establish the infrastructure destined to transform the port of the Malvinas Islands," the official explained this morning to the press media of Tierra del Fuego.
The specific thing is that the Ministry of Production and Environment of the province of Tierra del Fuego, as the enforcement authority of Law No. 55, on the Environment; In a joint effort with the Secretariat of Malvinas, Antarctica, South Atlantic Islands and International Affairs, it carried out the notification in accordance with the 1965 Hague Convention on Communication or Notification of Judicial or Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters (approved by Law 25,097).
Harland and Wolff was expressly summoned through the British central authority and in accordance with article 10 of the aforementioned Convention, so that within a period of ninety business days it complies with the provisions of National Law No. 25,675 "General Environmental Law ”, in Provincial Law No. 55 and in Provincial Law No. 1,126, under warning to initiate the pertinent legal actions.
Andrés Dachary stated that " the hiring of the company Harland and Wolff by the illegitimate and alleged island government to carry out this work is part of the British intention to establish the infrastructure destined to transform the port of the Malvinas Islands into a center of logistical support, in order to advance the illegal exploitation of natural resources that belong to all Fuegian men and women, also representing a flagrant violation of the resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly that urge the parties to refrain from adopting “Decisions that entail the introduction of unilateral modifications in the situation while the Islands are going through the decolonization process.”
“That is why, just like in 2021, when the British government attempted a similar maneuver through the company Bam Nuttall and the province notified it, the corresponding legal actions were taken in order to guarantee our rights. and provincial interests,” the official recalled.
