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Montevideo, October 12th 2026 - 17:17 UTC

Argentina

  • Thursday, October 1st 2026 - 09:32 UTC

    Uruguay's foreign minister separates the “invaded island” from the money extracted from the Falklands

    The minister said this was the main subject of his conversation with his Argentine counterpart, Pablo Quirno, and denied discussing with him Uruguay's interest in acquiring British ships

    Uruguay's Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin argued that the Falklands dispute has changed in nature with oil exploration: one thing, he said, is “the invaded island” and “the fight against colonialism”, and another is “when a lot of money is taken from there”. His remarks come as Yamandú Orsi's government considers buying two patrol vessels from the Royal Navy, a deal that has already prompted a resolution from twenty deputies of Argentine President Javier Milei's party.

  • Wednesday, September 30th 2026 - 23:01 UTC

    The Spectator likens Milei's Falklands push to Galtieri's

    An opinion column published on Wednesday in the British weekly The Spectator likens Argentine President Javier Milei's campaign over the Falklands to that of dictator Leopoldo Galtieri in 1982, with the difference, its author argues, that the current government is using legal rather than military means. The piece, by law professor Andrew Tettenborn, is an argument of opinion rather than a report of new facts.

  • Wednesday, September 30th 2026 - 22:59 UTC

    London rejects Argentina's arbitration and questions its “reliability” as a partner

    MLA Roberts this morning working the Labour Party Conference with Minister of Overseas Territories and Defence Secretary Wes Streeting

    The British government has rejected Argentina's decision to initiate international arbitration over the Sea Lion oil project and said Buenos Aires' campaign over the Falklands “raises questions about Argentina's reliability as a partner for the United Kingdom”. It is the first time London has extended the dispute to the bilateral relationship as a whole.

  • Tuesday, September 29th 2026 - 21:50 UTC

    Milei opens Argentina Week at the OECD and will meet Macron at the Élysée

    Friday will feature panels on energy and critical minerals, technology, artificial intelligence, international trade and fisheries. Milei will also receive an award from the Paris Economic Forum.

    Argentine President Javier Milei will lead Argentina Week in Paris from Wednesday, a gathering aimed at attracting European investment, with its main day on Thursday at the headquarters of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, ending that evening with a private meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace.

  • Tuesday, September 29th 2026 - 07:30 UTC

    Milei orders arbitration proceedings against the UK over the Sea Lion project

    Argentina demanded that the United Kingdom take the necessary measures within that period to prevent the start or continuation of hydrocarbon exploitation and refrain from granting new permits

    Argentine President Javier Milei on Monday instructed the foreign ministry and the government's legal teams to launch international arbitration proceedings against the United Kingdom over the development of the Sea Lion oil project in the basin north of the Falklands, and gave London two weeks to halt the activity before Argentina turns to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.

  • Tuesday, September 29th 2026 - 07:09 UTC

    Milei denies a recession and says indicators are “throwing out anything”

    Milei linked the economic difficulties to opposition initiatives in Congress and to security concerns

    Argentine President Javier Milei denied the country is in recession and questioned the reading of statistics showing rising poverty and falling economic activity. “The indicators are throwing out anything,” he said on Sunday in an interview with journalist Luis Majul on the programme La Cornisa, on the LN+ channel.

  • Monday, September 28th 2026 - 09:33 UTC

    London says Argentina “lacks the ability” to take the Falklands

    Streeting also said “this issue was settled in 1982” and that the will of the archipelago's residents, “the overwhelming majority of whom choose to be British”, remains unchanged

    British Defence Secretary Wes Streeting said Argentina “lacks the ability” to take the Falkland Islands and that the United Kingdom “has the ability to defend” them, in an interview with the Sunday paper The Sun on Sunday published on Saturday. Asked whether London could protect the archipelago militarily if Buenos Aires sent warships, he answered yes.

  • Monday, September 28th 2026 - 07:51 UTC

    The Telegraph links the Chagos deal to Argentina's Falklands campaign

    The column describes Milei as having moved from economic libertarianism to nationalism and, having once celebrated Margaret Thatcher, now seeking to attract Donald Trump with oil concessions

    An opinion column published on Sunday in the British newspaper The Telegraph argues that the decision to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius served as a signal of weakness that encouraged claims over other British overseas territories, among them the Falklands. The piece, by journalist Daniel Johnson, is an argument of opinion rather than a report of new facts.

  • Friday, September 25th 2026 - 23:26 UTC

    Falklands Assembly responds to Argentina's campaign: “This Assembly remains calm”

    Ford thanked the British prime minister, the foreign secretary, the minister for the Overseas Territories and figures “right across the UK political spectrum” for their support

    The chair of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly, Jack Ford, said on Thursday during a sitting of the body that there is “nothing new” in the claims made this week, and that the institution “remains calm” and steadfast in defending the right of the archipelago's residents to determine their own future.

  • Friday, September 25th 2026 - 21:28 UTC

    Milei and Netanyahu discussed the Falklands in his only bilateral in New York

    Asked by Argentine reporters whether the subject had come up, Quirno said “yes”, and “fine” when asked how that part of the conversation had gone

    Argentine President Javier Milei met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for about twenty minutes on Thursday at United Nations headquarters, in what was his only bilateral meeting with a head of state or government during his trip to New York. Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno confirmed they discussed the Falklands.