Every June 10, Argentina marks the "Day for the Reassertion of Argentina's Rights over the Malvinas, South Georgias, Sandwich Islands and surrounding maritime areas", in order to recall the date in which the first Argentine governor of the Islands was appointed, in 1829.

In that year, the government of Buenos Aires appointed Luis Vernet as governor of the South Atlantic archipelago. He was put in charge of a local militia and a group of colonists and their families, who worked in the colonization and development of the Islands, which had a central hub in Puerto Soledad.

At that time, Argentina kept not only appointed officials in Malvinas, but had a system of maritime control of its borders, and also began the management and conservation of the fishing wealth in the area. Also during this period the first Argentine person was born on the islands: Isabel Vernet, the governor's daughter.

As the Argentine Foreign Ministry points out, "the full exercise of sovereignty over Malvinas came to a sudden end on January 3, 1833, when British forces seized the islands, expelled the population and the Argentine authorities and replaced them with British settlers and officials".

Ever since then, Argentina protests at international organizations and forums of all kinds for the usurpation of a territory that belongs to it by the right of sovereignty and because there was a pre-existent Argentine government in the area.

In this regard, the Foreign Ministry stated: "The Argentine people uphold its permanent and unwavering determination to recover through peaceful means and diplomatic negotiations the full exercise of sovereignty" over the Malvinas, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands and surrounding maritime areas.