The UK government has condemned the recent Argentine order to seize $156m (£99m) of drilling equipment from British oil explorers around the Falkland islands as a ‘flagrant and unacceptable campaign to strangle the islands’ hydrocarbons industry”.
Wounds of 1982 Falklands war, ordered by late UK PM and which cost many Argentinian lives, still linger.
The people of the Falkland Islands have voted overwhelmingly in favour of remaining a UK overseas territory, with a turnout of more than 90% and just three votes against.
History is about to be made on the Falkland Islands, which holds its first official sovereignty referendum this weekend. Some 1,600 Islanders will be asked whether they wish to retain their current political status as a British Overseas Territory, and the result is already a foregone conclusion.
Next month will determine the eventual fate of the Falkland Islands—and the 1.4 billion barrels of oil so far discovered…