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Milei says Argentina will pursue the Falklands diplomatically: “We do not believe in military solutions”
At the same event, Milei defended his alliance with the United States and Israel Argentine President Javier Milei said in Madrid on Wednesday that he is confident of recovering the Falklands through diplomacy and repeated three times that his government “does not believe in military solutions”, amid an escalating dispute with the United Kingdom over the Sea Lion oil project.
“The Malvinas are Argentine. In fact, Spain had bought them and when we took over the territory they became ours. The original population was Argentine and was expelled by the English,” he said at a breakfast organised by the Nueva Economía Forum. “We will keep negotiating until they return the islands, because we are the legitimate owners,” he added. Milei also said that “the geopolitical and demographic problems” the United Kingdom is facing represent “a risk for the region”, without specifying what he meant.
The United Kingdom maintains that the islands are British and that their inhabitants have the right to decide their own future. In the 2013 referendum, 99.8% of voters chose to retain the status of a British overseas territory.
The remarks come less than three weeks before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea holds hearings in Hamburg on November 10 and 11 on Argentina’s request to halt Sea Lion. London has said it will take part in the proceedings and has approved measures to protect its companies from Argentine sanctions, while the sovereignty bill promoted by Milei, which toughens those sanctions, remains stalled in the Chamber of Deputies.
At the same event, Milei defended his alliance with the United States and Israel while championing trade with China: “The United States trades with China. So why can’t we trade too?”
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Read all commentsBy saying ...''he is confident of recovering the Falklands through diplomacy '' qualifies president Javier Milei as a true Narnian inasmuch that he 'is living in a parallel world of his own making that is devoid of reality.'
Oct 22nd, 2026 - 09:11 am 0Perhaps one of his followers would like to give an example of one piece of international law, just one, that Argentina can put before an international court that supports their claim to the Falkland islands?
About time the world learned the actual Truth.
Oct 22nd, 2026 - 03:59 pm 0In 1833 when the British went down to RELAIM
The Falklands they first claimed and settled in 1765 ,
They evicted no civilians- just the temporary
States of the River Plate,s militia ,who had been there only a short time having murdered their first Commanding Officer , and the women os some of them.
All the Civilians were addressed by the British Naval Commander and offered the right to stay freely and carry on businesses and accept British Rule and the right to become British Citizens
Only 2 couples - one Brazilian and one Uruguayan, voted to leave - and did so with the militia.
All the rest - including those from was to
become Argentina - decided freely to stay.
The names of civilians who left and those who stayed are in the Argentine Naval Archives of 1833
And in the Royal Navy Archives
So please Argentines - stop lying to the world.
The last of those original settlers - a-lady of Argentine Origen passed away in the 1860s and her headstone is in Stanley Cemetery
origin
Already been a military solution, in 1982 a vile cruel illegal military occupation was removed.
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