Argentina to sue over Falklands oil

ARGENTINA has announced that it is planning to take legal action against the UK for its oil exploration around the Falkland Islands.

In a day of heightened antiBritain rhetoric this week — which marked the 33rd anniversary of the Falklands invasion — President Cristina Kirchner also scoffed at the UK’s reinforcing of the islands’ defence and urged Britain to spend its money instead on ending unemployed people’s reliance on food banks.

This week two British firms announced they had made an oil and gas discovery at a well in the archipelago — the first in a nine-month drilling campaign. — ©