On August 5, the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization adopted by consensus a new resolution on the Question of the Malvinas Islands, which was co-sponsored by all the Latin American countries that are members of the Special Committee (Chile, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela).

Year after year, since 1983, the Special Committee calls on Argentina and the United Kingdom to resume negotiations to find as soon as possible a peaceful and definitive solution to the sovereignty controversy over the Malvinas Islands, Georgia del Sur, South Sandwich and the surrounding maritime spaces, in accordance with resolution 2065 (XX) and later of the General Assembly on the Question of the Malvinas Islands.

The Special Committee on Decolonization, created in 1961 as a subsidiary body of the United Nations General Assembly, is in charge of ensuring the application of resolution 1514 (XV) of the United Nations General Assembly and in this framework annually examines the 17 situations colonial countries that are still pending decolonization, adopting resolutions that allow progress towards the end of colonialism.

The call of the United Nations for the resumption of negotiations between Argentina and the United Kingdom as a way to resolve the dispute is shared by various multilateral forums, such as the Organization of American States (OAS), MERCOSUR, the Group of the 77 plus China, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the Ibero-American Summits, among others. However, the UK persists in its refusal to resume negotiations on this matter.

Once again the Argentine Government reiterates the need to resume a substantive dialogue on the sovereignty dispute, and invites the United Kingdom to comply with the duty imposed by International Law to peacefully resolve this dispute and put an end to a colonial situation, anachronistic in The 21st century.