(AFP) — Britain insisted Friday that the Falkland Islands “are British” after Argentine President Javier Milei said the “winds of change” favored his country’s claim to the archipelago, citing Washington’s readiness to review its neutrality in the dispute.
\n\nBritain and Argentina fought a 10-week war in 1982 over the South Atlantic islands, a British overseas territory which Argentines call Las Malvinas.
\n\nThe fate of the islands hit headlines again in recent days after US President Donald Trump threatened to wade into the dispute, and an British-Israeli oil project near the islands caused anger in Argentina.
\n\nIn an address on national TV, Milei assured Thursday that Argentina would not “stand idly by” in the face of the oil project and announced sanctions on firms linked to oil extraction “in Argentine territory under British occupation.”
\n\n“There are winds of change in the world that are favorable to our claim,” he said, alluding to Trump’s threat to withdrew support for Britain’s sovereignty.
\n\nControl of the Falklands is a highly emotive issue in Argentina, even though the islanders themselves voted overwhelmingly in 2013 to remain British.
\n\n“The Falklands are British because Falkland Islanders choose to be British,” British Defence Secretary Wes Streeting responded in…
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