Argentina's Milei addresses UN as tensions rise over Falkland Islands
- On Wednesday, President Javier Milei will address the United Nations General Assembly amid escalating tensions with Britain over oil exploration around the Falkland Islands, which Argentina calls the Malvinas.
- Argentina earlier this month initiated sanctions against more than 60 companies and people linked to offshore oil drilling, while Milei recently presented a bill to toughen penalties for natural resource activities.
- On Friday, British Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Overseas Territories Uma Kumaran called the actions "unacceptable," saying "the Falkland Islands are British and they have the right to develop their natural resources as they see fit."
- Despite the sanctions, Sea Lion project owners Navitas Petroleum and Rockhopper Exploration do not expect Milei's actions to derail development. Peronist opposition congressman Guillermo Michel alleged the move is "simply something to look good in the eyes of society or to try to shift the agenda."
- On Thursday, Milei is scheduled to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. US President Donald Trump suggested Washington could reconsider its traditionally neutral position on the Falklands sovereignty dispute.
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Javier Milei renews Argentina's Malvinas claim, urges talks at UN
Javier Milei used his UN speech to renew Argentina's Malvinas claim and demand talks with Britain. The exchange sharpened the sovereignty standoff as London again backed the islanders' right to remain British.
The Argentine president: "For us they are a national cause." In the dispute there is also the exploitation of oil. For that small archipelago in 1982 a war broke out between the military junta and Great Britain
(Mexico City = Yonhap News) Correspondent Song Gwang-ho = Argentine President Javier Millerei fiercely criticized the UN as a "useless organization" in the plenary session of the UN General Assembly.
Milei spoke to the UN General Assembly.
Milei at the UN: “The Malvinas are a national cause for us”
Argentine President Javier Milei called on the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday to act over what he described as unilateral British actions in the Falklands, and accused the organisation of having “decided to look the other way” on the dispute. “The Malvinas are a national cause for us,” he said, repeating the phrase twice at the start of his address.
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