India, Sept. 27 -- UN Resolution 2065, approved by the General Assembly exactly six decades ago, marked a milestone in Argentina's quest for global recognition of its full sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands. For almost two hundred years, a sovereignty dispute persists between Argentina and the United Kingdom regarding various archipelagos in the South Atlantic, the most important of which is the Malvinas, which the British call the Falklands.
At the time of Argentina's independence in 1816 those islands belonged to the Kingdom of Spain, which at the time was still one of the largest empires of the world. In 1833, a British naval expedition invaded and took control of the territory, expelling the Argentine Governor and much of the Argent...