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The future of the Falklands Fisheries Subcommittee is under study

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Thursday, January 30, 2020, 00:00 (GMT + 9)

The meeting scheduled for last week was suspended and the disarticulation of the Subcommittee was discussed, although its continuity would be studied. Clues about the possible policy to apply for the South Atlantic if it is decided to end with pendular actions and the only legal discourse.

Last week there was intense diplomatic activity around the Falklands: the meeting of the Fisheries Subcommittee to be held on Monday 20 was suspended; the ambassadors before Great Britain and before the international organizations in Geneva, Renato Sersale di Cerisano and Carlos Foradori, were displaced and the secretary of Matters Related to the Falkland Islands, Daniel Filmus, made his presentation in New York in the Decolonization Committee, urging that a negotiation instance be promoted from the UN.

The Vice Chancellor of the United Kingdom, Alan Duncan and the Chancellor of Argentina, Susana Malcorra (2016)

In 2016, during the presidency of Mauricio Macri and with Susana Malcorra as chancellor, the Argentine government signed a joint statement with Great Britain that, in addition to generating rejections from the opposition and part of the ruling party, left as a result flights from Brazil to the Falklands with scale in Cordoba; the identification of 155 soldiers buried in the Islands and the reactivation of the Scientific Subcommittee of the South Atlantic Fisheries Commission. The latter was created in 1990 and deactivated during the Kirchnerist mandates.

Since the signing of the so-called Faroni-Duncan Agreement - those who signed it - the Subcommittee resumed the exchange of scientific data and joint scientific surveys were carried out in 2019, to assess the squid in February and the Southern blue whiting last September. The logistic contribution was always made by Argentina and it was also the one that contributed the most with the provision of important information.

Facing a new squid season, the Subcommittee had to meet again last Monday, but the meeting was suspended by the new authorities. Chancellor Felipe Solá and the new secretary for Matters Related to the Falkland Islands, Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands, Daniel Filmus, decided to suspend it.

At the same time, the ambassador in London, Carlos Sersale and the ambassador to international organizations in Geneva, Carlos Foradori, were called to Buenos Aires and removed from their positions through two decrees published in the Official Gazette on January 22. On the other hand, on Thursday 23 Filmus met in New York with the members of the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization.

It was a regular meeting whee the government claimed for respect of the annual resolutions of the Committee, which contain a call to Argentina and the United Kingdom to resume negotiations. “That court established that it is that representative UN body  - and not the colonial power, as the United Kingdom affirms in the Falklands issue-, which must indicate the ways to end colonial situations according to the function granted by the Charter of the United Nations ”, reported the Foreign Ministry.

The Secretary of Malvinas also held a meeting with María Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, Chief of Staff of the Secretary General of the United Nations, who communicated the interest of Argentina in entrusting a good offices mission to the Secretary General to resume negotiations on sovereignty over the Malvinas Issue with Great Britain.

During the past week there were rumors of the dismantling of the Scientific Subcommittee on Fisheries, a theory that was backed by the suspension of the meeting; but its continuity would be under study. It would be sought to give a direction to relationships based on the care of natural resources in the South Atlantic.

One of the proposals is to end the marches and counter-marches in this type of agreements. Javier Figueroa, ambassador to Cuba since 2016 and who was an official of the Falklands Secretariat since its creation and a man very close to Daniel Filmus, two months ago wrote an extensive article about the relationship between the Falklands and the fisheries for a Panamanian magazine which could give an idea of ​​the guidelines that are intended to be adopted for to the subject by the Secretariat

“A look that frames the sovereignty dispute in a comprehensive political vision of the South Atlantic and Antarctica is not usual. That is the context, in which we should design our policy. Malvinas is a chapter of a broader novel, which is the construction of an ocean policy for our country,” Figueroa wrote in Panamanian magazine.

For the ambassador and advisor of Daniel Filmus, visualizing Malvinas from another perspective, linking “the Malvinas issue to other agendas such as science or marine conservation”, would allow developing policies that strengthen our negotiating position and would be an effective development tool and of strategic presence.

To do this, he says, alliances and networks must be woven by topics with relevant actors, whether they are States of the South Atlantic basin or key actors in environmental, scientific, fisheries agendas, even extending alliances with specialized organizations and NGOs. 

“Although the Argentine Republic has a long and permanent presence in the South Atlantic, the articulation of sectoral policies (fisheries, environment, scientific activities, control, etc.) has been scarce,” the official said, adding that “ the efforts made by the diverse and important institutions have been dispersed and without greater coordination, which has affected both its effectiveness and its visibility and allocating important resources in an inefficient way ”.

“Any large-scale program for the South Atlantic requires establishing consultation and articulation mechanisms between the different competent institutions, which can pursue different objectives. At the same time, it is essential to avoid the atomization of efforts, aiming at an integrated management. This coordination must also include the provinces with maritime coast, and those institutions and state organizations or not that carry out activities in our southern maritime spaces,” summarizes Figueroa.

In that context, he puts in a key place the role of the province of Tierra del Fuego and the port of Ushuaia: “The delayed construction of an Antarctic logistics hub, the concentration of national Antarctic scientific institutions in the province and the opening to the national private sector for the provision of Antarctic logistics and tourism services not only has a geopolitical logic, but will generate quality resources and jobs.”

The speech and praxis of a legal and conservative diplomatic nature, says Figueroa, “has led us, for example, to marginalize us in marine forums” and the pendular attitudes to a situation of disadvantage before the counterpart, situations that would be avoided, he says, “if we assume that the conflict of sovereignty is one more point of a broader agenda.”

Within the Malvinas Secretariat, the creation of a special department to address the problem of the South Atlantic is considered, but its concretion or the development that it can achieve will ultimately depend on the political position that President Alberto Fernández decides to take on the Falklands issue.

Author:  Karina Fernández/Revista Puerto

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