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1971 AGREEMENT ON COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN Exchange of Notes between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Argentine Republic concerning Communications between the Falkland Islands and the Argentine Mainland signed at Buenos Aires on 5 August 1971 (with Joint Statement and Related Notes) - The Agreement entered into force on 5 August 1971 and was presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs by Command of Her Majesty, June 1972 BRITISH LETTER - Joint
Statement - White Card - Exchange
of Notes The British Charge d'Affaires ad interim at Buenos Aires to the Argentine Minister for Foreign Affairs and Worship British Embassy 5th August 1971 Your Excellency I have the honour to refer to the Resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations number 2065 (XX) of the 16th of December 1965 and the letters dated the 21st November 1969 and the 11th December 1970 from the Permanent Representative to the United Nations of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Argentine Republic addressed to the Secretary-General of the Organisation on the question of the Falkland Islands, and also to the Joint Statement on communications and movement between the Argentine mainland and the Falkland islands initialled in Buenos Aires by the Representatives of the two Governments on the 1st July 1971, and to inform Your Excellency that the Government of the United Kingdom are prepared to conclude an agreement with the Government of the Argentine Republic in the following terms: 1.(a) Since divergence remains between the two Governments regarding the circumstances that should exist for a definitive solution to the dispute concerning sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, nothing contained in the Joint Statement referred to above and approved by our two Governments on today's date shall be interpreted as: (i) a renunciation by either Government of any right of territorial sovereignty over the Falkland Islands; or (ii) a recognition of or support for the other Government's position with regard to territorial sovereignty over the Falkland Islands. (b) No acts or activities taking place as a consequence of the Joint Statement referred to above having been put into operation and while it is in operation shall constitute a basis for asserting, supporting, or denying the position of either Government with regard to territorial sovereignty over the Falkland Islands. 2. Either Government may denounce this agreement subject to six months' prior notice in writing. If the foregoing is acceptable to the Government of the Argentine Republic, I have the honour to propose that this Note together with Your Excellency's reply in that sense shall constitute an agreement between the two Government which shall enter into force on the date of your reply. I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurances of my highest consideration. T. Peters Her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires Our thanks to Jane Cameron, Falkland Islands Archivist for supplying a copy of this Agreement
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