Oil Row Revives Falklands Tensions Between The UK And Argentina (News Updates For February 22, 2010)



'War Is Excluded From Horizon,' Says Argentina -- The Independent

But tensions rise as Buenos Ares recruits allies and promises to use all legal means to stop British oil drilling.

War is not an option in resolving Argentina's dispute with Britain
over the potentially oil-rich Falkland Islands, a senior Argentinian minister said yesterday. "War is excluded from our horizon," the Deputy Foreign Minister, Victorio Taccetti, said. But he insisted Buenos Aires would not give up its claims to the islands it calls Las Malvinas.

He denied that Argentina was escalating a row triggered by a British oil drilling project in the Falklands.

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