Argentina demands UK halt Falklands oil project

Buenos Aires will sue if the British-Israeli operation near the disputed islands doesn’t stop, President Javier Milei has said Argentinian President Javier Milei has demanded that Britain cease oil exploration near the disputed Falkland Islands, threatening legal action if London fails to comply.Buenos Aires maintains that the South Atlantic archipelago, which it calls the Malvinas, is part of its territory, despite it being administered by the UK since 1833.The two countries fought a brief war over the territory in 1982 after Argentine forces seized the islands and Britain sent a naval task force to retake them. In a 2013 referendum, Falkland Islanders overwhelmingly voted to remain a British overseas territory, a vote Buenos Aires does not recognize as resolving the sovereignty dispute.Milei said in a post on X on Monday that he had given instructions to the Foreign Ministry and legal experts “to initiate international arbitration against the UK for the illegal plundering of our resources through the Sea Lion Project.” “If in 2 weeks the UK does not halt the illegitimate exploitation, we will go to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS),” he warned.The Sea Lion...