Argentina calls on Cameron to reopen Falklands talks

Source: BBC

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has urged new UK Prime Minister David Cameron to hold talks over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands. The two countries went to war in 1982 after Argentina invaded, with UK forces retaking the territory after a short but bloody conflict.

Mrs Fernandez made her call at the EU-Latin America summit in Madrid.

Foreign Office minister Jeremy Browne said the UK had "no doubt" about its right to sovereignty. "The principle of self determination as set out in the UN charter applies," he said in a statement.

And only last week, the new UK Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government rejected a call by Mrs Fernandez to halt the oil exploration being carried out by British companies. One firm, Rockhopper Exploration, has said that initial data collected from a well "indicated an oil discovery" in the North Falkland Basin.

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Let me know how it works out...

Argentina just wants the oil.

Under UNLOS, control of the Falklands would give Argentina complete control of the mineral and fishing rights over the entire 300 mile stretch of open ocean between the Falklands and the mainland, AND would grant them EEZ rights extending out another 200 miles beyond the Falklands. Argentina also claims the Sandwich and South Georgia islands, which would extend their EEZ out more than a thousand miles...halfway across the Atlantic Ocean. As it is now, Argentina is limited to only a 150 mile EEZ, splitting the sea between the islands and mainland right down the middle.

It's about control. The British have it, and the Argentines want it.

If Argentina's claim is based upon history then we need to return Texas to Mexico and Oregon to the Native Americans.

Or if it is based upon geographic proximity (small island near big country) then the US should have the right to take over Cuba.

seems it was selectively enforced (we couldn't)

jingoistic rhetoric