Chile’s President reaffirms support for Argentina’s claim to Falkland Islands

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – On April 10, Chile’s president, Gabriel Boric, makes his first presidential trip, and his destination is Argentina, where he will arrive with a diverse entourage. Before the flight, the president spoke with the trans-Andean media about his visit, deepening his bond with the country and rectifying his support for Argentina’s claim to the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas).

In conversation with the trans-Andean newspaper Clarín, Boric assured to have a profound bond with Argentina and with the history of the Argentine people, arguing that “I grew up closer to Argentina than to the center of Chile (in Punta Arenas), with permanent trips to Río Gallegos, Río Turbio, Río Grande, Tolhuin, Puerto Almanza, Ushuaia. And therefore, I have felt a deep brotherhood with the Argentine people since I was very young”.

In the same medium, the president was asked about his support for the Argentine claim of sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands, considering that this month marks the 40th anniversary of the conflict that took place under the Argentine dictatorship commanded by Leopoldo Galtieri, who was determined to regain control of the archipelago, in the hands of the United Kingdom since 1833.

Under this scenario, Boric assured to be “deeply Latin Americanist”, sustaining his “clear and decisive support to the claim made by the government and the Argentine people and State over the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands”.

Beyond the emphasis and symbolism of the support in the middle of the commemoration of the four decades of the conflict, this position had been expressed by Boric since the time he was a student leader and deputy and is in line with the official position that Chile has maintained in the last decades about the issue.

Boric emphasized that resolving these conflicts “must be through peace. That is what we will always encourage”. Likewise, through Página/12, he assured that “I will never encourage an armed resolution of the conflict, and my position is one of solidarity with the Argentine people”.

In the latter media, the president took the opportunity to send his greetings and “my deep respect to the Argentine people, to the whole generation that went to fight in a war they did not choose, for a government they did not choose and that caused so much tragedy,” adding that “as President of Chile I have no doubts on which side to be and we support the international claim made by the Argentine Republic regarding the Malvinas and the South Sandwich Islands”, he said.

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