The British Foreign Minister, David Cameron, said from the islands that the inhabitants of the archipelago will be able to spend "as long as they want" under the United Kingdom Administration.
The Argentine Government has summoned the United Kingdom ambassador in Buenos Aires, Kirsty Hayes, to whom it has conveyed its "concerns" about the recent visit of the British Foreign Minister, David Cameron, to the Falkland Islands archipelago, which claims Argentina as its own.
The Argentine vice-chancellor, Leopoldo Sahores, and the secretary of the Malvinas, Antarctica and South Atlantic, Paola Di Chiaro, have conveyed to the British diplomat the "concerns generated" by the visit and by the announcements made in recent weeks, according to Ministry sources. of Foreign Affairs of Argentina consulted by Europa Press.
Cameron's visit to the Falkland Islands - the first by a cabinet minister since 2016 - came after Argentine President Javier Milei claimed his country's sovereignty over these territories.
Cameron himself said from the islands that the inhabitants of the archipelago can be "as long as they want" under the United Kingdom Administration. "I hope it will be for a long time, possibly forever," added Minister Cameron, which caused deep discomfort in Argentina.
Subsequently, London unilaterally announced an expansion of the protected maritime zone in the south of the archipelago, specifically in the southernmost islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich, of about 166,000 square kilometers, which would accumulate 449,000 square kilometers in protected areas prohibited to the fishing in waters that Argentina considers its own.
The dispute over the sovereignty of the Malvinas archipelago - Falkland for the United Kingdom - dates back to the 19th century and provoked a direct war between the two countries in 1982 after the invasion of the archipelago ordered by the military junta that governed the South American country at that time. . The British military reaction led to the rapid defeat and expulsion of the Argentine troops.
