The United Nations Special Committee on Decolonisation adopted by consensus a new resolution which reiterates, as it has done every year since 1983, the call to the United Kingdom and Argentina to resume negotiations to find, as soon as possible, a peaceful and definitive solution to the sovereignty dispute over the Malvinas Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime areas.

Tuesday's resolution was co-sponsored by all Latin American countries that integrate the Special Committee: Chile, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

The delegations of China, Indonesia, Syria, Russia, Antigua and Barbuda, Timor Leste and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, members of the C24, also expressed support for the resumption of sovereignty negotiations.

Statements in favor of Argentine rights were also made on behalf of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States and the Member and Associated States of MERCOSUR.

The session, which took place at the United Nations headquarters in New York, was supported by the G77 countries and China, as well as the countries of the Atlantic Zone of Peace and Cooperation with the intervention delivered by Brazil.

The C-24, oversees the implementation of Resolution 1514 and, in this context, and it annually examines the 17 colonial situations that are still pending resolution, among them Malvinas.

In that context, Foreign Minister Cafiero reaffirmed Argentina's sovereignty rights over the Islands.

He also called on the United Kingdom to comply with its international obligation to resume sovereignty negotiations.

In this regard, he stressed that for the Argentine government the Malvinas Islands are "past, present and future".

The Inter-American Development Bank approved a $350 million loan to finance environmental initiatives in Argentina.

The package was announced following a meeting between IDB representatives and Argentina's economy minister, Sergio Massa, in Buenos Aires.

According to the ministry, the funds will be earmarked for policies "that contribute to the circular economy and decarbonisation”.

So far this year, the entity has already authorized loans for programmes in education, health, knowledge economy and sanitation, among other areas.