Veytics Intelligence
2026-09-29 · DW

Argentina's Milei threatens UK with international legal action over Falkland Islands oil project

Argentine President Javier Milei on Monday gave the United Kingdom two weeks to halt an oil project near the Falkland Islands or face international legal action. The potentially lucrative project has intensified the long-running sovereignty dispute as the islands prepare for oil production that could transform their small economy. Milei said Argentina would take the dispute to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg if the UK did not halt the Sea Lion project within two weeks. "I instructed the Foreign Ministry and our legal teams to initiate arbitration proceedings against the United Kingdom for the illegal sacking of our resources through the Sea Lion Project in the North Falklands Basin," Milei wrote on X.

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