Why the Falkland Islands are British

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By Graham Pascoe (*)

On 11 July 2026 the Argentine foreign minister, Pablo Quirno, wrote a long article on the Falkland Islands (or the Malvinas, as they are called in Spanish) in the Buenos Aires newspaper La Nación, as Iona Cleave reported in the London Telegraph the next day.

On 23 July he published an almost identical article in the Israeli English-language daily Jerusalem Post.

In both his articles the foreign minister repeated several arguments which (he said) showed the strength of Argentina's claim to the Falklands.

Unfortunately for him, everything he said is historically and legally untrue, as will be pointed out below.