UN General Assembly
1982

referring once again to the Malvinas question, which is so vitally important to my country. The world knows Argentina's devotion to peace and that we have lived through more than a century without any periods of war. If a peaceful people felt it necessary to take up arms to defend its cause, in an unequal battle, it was solely as the result of the justice of that cause. Our forces consisted entirely of Argentineans who were fulfilling their patriotic duty. In our struggle we did not turn to foreigners boastful of their bloodthirsty ferocity closely tied to the degrading exchange of money. 315. Our martyrs, sacrificed in the desolate lands and frigid waters of the South Atlantic, will be constant witnesses to Argentina's unwavering sovereignty over the Malvinas, a cause whose defense brooks neither concessions nor hesitation. The hours of sacrifice of our combatants, as well as the blood and the lives laid down by so many of them, were not in vain. The cry that went up then and that will lead us