130 countries urge UK to negotiate over Malvinas

The declaration says there was an urgent “need for Argentina and the Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to resume negotiations in accordance with the principles and objectives of the United Nations Charter and relevant resolutions of the General Assembly.”

Furthermore the 130 countries, which were attending the G-77 plus China in Qatar, called for “a peaceful solution to the sovereignty dispute over the Falkland [Malvinas] Islands.”

This comes as Britain has repeatedly announced that it would not get engaged in any negotiations on the sovereignty over the islands while the archipelago is among the 16 territories on the UN Committee on Decolonization's list of colonies awaiting liberation. Ten of the 16 territories are under the sovereignty of the United Kingdom.

The South Atlantic Malvinas Islands are located 250 nautical miles from Argentina and were occupied by Britain in 1833.

Earlier this month, US President Barak Obama said the US position on the dispute between Argentina and Britain over the Malvinas islands was “going to remain neutral.” Obama’s reference to the islands by their Spanish name instead of “the Falklands,” which the British use to call the archipelago, was a real setback to the so-called ‘Special Relationship’ between Britain and the US.