MOSCOW, March 6. /TASS/. Argentina is justifiably fighting to regain sovereignty over the Malvinas (Falklands) Islands, which are still considered a British overseas territory, Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of the Russian Security Council and chairman of the United Russia Party, said.
He recalled that Argentina had withdrawn from its agreement with the United Kingdom governing administrative and economic activities on the Malvinas.
"While this piece of paper is quite new by historical standards, dating back to just 2016, politically it has turned rotten and malodorous (as, by the way, is the case with just about everything that the pestilent hand of London touches). Buenos Aires's determination to continue its just struggle to regain sovereignty over the disputed territories clearly demonstrates a course toward strengthening the legal independence of states and their struggle against the disgraceful modern practices of neo-colonialism, which many countries continue to indulge in," he wrote in an article uploaded to the United Russia website on Monday.
Medvedev stated that the sharp blade of turbulence in international relations has served to lance a boil festering with long-standing global problems.
"For many decades, they have just been covering them over with 'political band-aids' rather than eliminating the causes of the disease. However, no abscess can last forever. The time is ripe for international surgical intervention to remove the malignant tumor of the colonial past," he said.
Medvedev highlighted the fact that, according to the UN classification, there are still quite a few non-self-governing territories in the world, which he described as "rudiments of the colonial system that collapsed in the 1950s through 1970s of the 20th century."
"Indeed, do the former colonial powers wish to give them true freedom? Hardly," Medvedev said.
In his view, Great Britain will never give the Chagos Archipelago back to Mauritius, just as France will never return Mayotte to the Union of the Comoros, or the Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean (in French: ·les ·parses) to Madagascar. "Therefore, these countries have developed a growing understanding of the correctness of resisting the remnants of neo-colonial practices and attempts to impose perverse cultural attitudes upon them, which emanate from the former Western colonial powers," the deputy Security Council head pointed out.
In conclusion, he warned that the emerging multipolar world would be much more complex than a "two-dimensional bipolar system or unipolar diktat."
"While the Soviet Union actively contributed to the collapse of the world colonial system, now, together with other countries, we can drive the last nail into the coffin of the neo-colonial aspirations of the Western world," he concluded.