The European Union has officially joined Operation Economic Outcast and we appreciate their strong and early stance.

The United States stands firm with our allies in ensuring the murderous Iranian regime cannot exploit the global financial system to fund its nuclear ambitions, weapons programs, and terror proxies.

The world is sending a clear message to the Iranian regime: We will not stop until every remaining financial lifeline has been severed.

I want to be clear with the world and express the position of the Argentine state:

The Falkland Islands are Argentine, by history and by law, there is no discussion about it.

The islands were part of the Argentine territory from the origins of our nation.

In 1833, the United Kingdom occupied the Falkland Islands, expelled the Argentine authorities, and established a colonial situation that persists to this day.

This implies that the islanders, as they are a population implanted in a usurped territory, do not have a legitimate right to self-determination, and that any argument based on references made on the islands is invalid.

Since then, Argentina has permanently maintained its claim to sovereignty, because, as the national constitution says in its first transitional clause, the Argentine nation ratifies its legitimate and indisputable sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, and the corresponding maritime and insular spaces, for being an integral part of the national territory.

The recovery of these territories and the full exercise of sovereignty, respecting the way of life of its inhabitants and according to the principles of international law, constitute a permanent and indisputable objective of the Argentine people.