Argentina’s president has warned that the country could take “matters into our own hands” over the Malvinas sovereignty dispute
Britain is capable of defending the Falkland Islands militarily if Argentina attempts to take control of the disputed territory, UK Defense Secretary Wes Streeting has said.
The UK has administered the South Atlantic archipelago, known in Argentina as the Malvinas, since 1833. Buenos Aires maintains that the islands are part of its own territory.
The two countries fought a war over the islands in 1982 after Argentine forces seized them and Britain sent a naval task force to retake them. Residents overwhelmingly voted to remain British territory in a 2013 referendum, which Argentina disputes.
The decades-old dispute has recently flared up again, with Argentine President Javier Milei stepping up the country’s sovereignty claim and condemning British-approved oil development around the islands as unlawful.
The renewed tensions come as US President Donald Trump has cast doubt on whether America would come to Britain’s aid in another conflict over the territory. Milei raised the issue at the UN General Assembly in New York this week, pointing to the Sea Lion offshore oil project and warning that Argentina could “take matters into our own hands” if the UN fails to act.
In an interview with The Sun on Sunday published on Saturday, Streeting dismissed Milei’s position as the “same old bogus propaganda,” arguing that “the Argentinians lack the ability” to seize the archipelago.
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