Buenos Aires legislator Gustavo Pulti of the Union for the Homeland On Friday, the Spanish government asked Congress to reject the UN agreement signed by Foreign Minister Diana Mondino, which aims to regulate fishing in international waters, since it compromises national sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands and the surrounding maritime spaces.
The president of the Maritime, Port and Fisheries Interests Committee of the Chamber of Deputies of the province of Buenos Aires said that this agreement goes “against the legitimate Argentine interests in the Malvinas and at sea.”
This is the "Agreement within the framework of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction" to which the National Executive Branch adhered on July 19.
Pulti submitted the bill he presented to the Buenos Aires Legislature to the Foreign Relations and Culture and Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries committees of both chambers of the National Congress.
In addition, he met with the national deputy of Unión por la Patria, Hugo Yasky, of whom he said that "he assumed an attitude of total commitment and was willing to to push through a law rejecting the treaty.” "We agree with him on the importance of urging Congress to scrap the treaty and prevent our country from being the victim of a typical British ruse," he said about the meeting with the Kirchnerist legislator and leader of the CTA de los Trabajadores.
The former mayor of General Pueyrredón warned that the agreement It includes “a recognition of the United Kingdom as a coastal state that directly impacts” Argentine law.
"This means that the measures implemented in the territory cannot be questioned by the Argentine Republic, due to the multilateral, not national, power created by the agreement and fundamentally due to the transfer of the coastal status to the occupying country, that is, to Great Britain," he protested.
According to Pulti , this "could mean a new setback in our ability to exercise sovereign defense of an area in which the United Kingdom is appropriating huge resources that belong to Argentina, as is clearly happening with fishing and the planned extraction of oil." "It is no coincidence that this agreement, invoking the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea, was promoted by certain environmental organisations that clearly respond to British interests," he noted.
