Details from UK media sky newsRishi Sunak criticized the EU. “Poor choice of words” when talking about “Falkland Islands” in a declaration agreed at the recent Celac-EU Summit.

The prime minister’s official spokesman said Mr Sunak would have thought “it is totally unacceptable for the EU to question the right of Falklanders to decide their own future”.

The final document outlining the conclusions of the summit meeting between the EU and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) makes reference to the island dispute for the first time.

“On the question of sovereignty, Falkland Islands/Malvinas Islands the European Union noted Sellac’s historical position based on the importance of dialogue and respect for international law in the peaceful resolution of disputes,” pointing to issue 13 of the document agreed by the parties.

slogan street EFE DistributorThe dispute was included in the document signed after the EU-Argentina bilateral meeting in 2021 at the request of the Argentine government, but not in the final EU-Serac Declaration.

In this sense, it should be noted that the UK ceased to be an EU member state in January 2020.

A British spokesperson added that in any case the EU “made it clear that its position on the Falkland Islands has not changed” since Brexit. “I regret my choice of words.”

The aforementioned sources recalled the 2013 referendum in which 99.83% of the island’s residents voted to remain part of the UK.

However, in this trans-Andean country, they point out, the population is so small that the right of self-determination does not apply in the disputed area. “transplanted” by the British.

“We will continue to defend the Falkland Islands’ right to self-determination at all international fora. We have called on the EU to respect the islands’ democratic rights,” a British spokesman said.

in the Argentine constitution “We ratify lawful and inalienable sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.” And since they are an integral part of national territories, they also include the corresponding maritime and insular spaces. ”

“The restoration of the territory and the full exercise of its sovereignty, respecting the way of life of its inhabitants and in accordance with the principles of international law, constitutes a permanent and inalienable objective of the Argentine people,” it added.