Argentine authorities express dissatisfaction with Cameron’s visit to the Falklands

Argentina’s foreign minister expressed to David Cameron, his British counterpart, his country’s “unease” about his trip this week to the Falkland Islands, an Argentine territory claimed by England.

According to Al-Nashrah, Cameron’s visit to the Falkland Islands on Monday was the first visit of the British Foreign Minister to this region in the past three decades. This area previously caused the start of the war between England and Argentina in 1982.

Argentine government announced in a statement that Foreign Minister Diana Mondino had a dialogue with Cameron on the sidelines of the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting in Rio de Janeiro and confirmed the sovereign rights of the Argentine Republic in this archipelago.

The disputed Falkland Islands are 480 kilometers from South America and 13,000 kilometers from Britain, which has long been a place of tension and conflict between Argentina and England.

Buenos Aires argues that the islands were illegally occupied by Britain in 1833, but London says that the territory belonged to England since 1765 and that a ship was sent to the islands in 1833 to drive away Argentine troops. expel them because they were seeking sovereignty over these islands.