Argentina’s Milei threatens to sue UK over Falkland Islands oil project

Argentina's President Javier Milei threatened Monday to sue the United Kingdom over an oil project near the Falkland Islands, the British-administered territory over which Buenos Aires claims sovereignty. Britain and Argentina fought a brief but bitter 10-week war in 1982 over the South Atlantic islands, known to Argentines as Las Malvinas, with 255 British troops and 649 Argentines killed during the conflict. The companies developing a major oil field off the Falklands, Israel's Navitas and Britain's Rockhopper, have shrugged off Argentina's threats, insisting they have valid exploration licenses issued by the United Kingdom. The project is called Sea Lion. "I instructed the Foreign Ministry and our legal teams to initiate arbitration proceedings against the United Kingdom for the illegal sacking of our resources through the Sea Lion Project in the North Falklands Basin," Milei said in a post on X. The Sea Lion oil field is located around 220 kilometers (137 miles) from the islands. Read moreArgentina's poverty rate climbs to nearly one in three under Milei "If within two weeks the United Kingdom does not stop the illegitimate exploitation, we will go to the International Tribunal...