The UK-ruled islands were the subject of a short but brutal war after Argentina invaded in 1982. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LONDON - The UK government on Thursday insisted the Falkland Islands remained British as Argentina walked away from a cooperation pact and demanded new talks over their sovereignty.
In 2016, the two sides agreed to disagree about sovereignty, but to cooperate on issues such as energy, shipping and fishing, and on identifying the remains of unknown Argentine soldiers killed in battle. In a series of tweets, he renewed Argentina’s longstanding demands instead for negotiations about sovereignty of the islands at the UN in New York.“Islanders have the right to decide their own future – they have chosen to remain a self-governing UK Overseas Territory,” he added.
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