- Argentina has threatened to take legal action against the UK government unless it stops its oil exploration work off the coast of the Falkland Islands.
- Javier Milei set a two-week deadline for the Sea Lion oilfield project – a joint venture between Israeli and British companies – to be scrapped, despite the companies saying they have valid licences issued by the UK.
- Mr Milei said on social media that if work does not cease by the deadline, he has "instructed the Foreign Ministry and legal teams to initiate international arbitration" against the UK over what he called "the illegal plundering of our resources through the Sea Lion Project".
- The escalation follows Mr Milei's speech at the General Assembly, where he criticised the UN for failing to act over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands.
- He said the UN had chosen “to look the other way” so Argentina was “going to take matters into our own hands” through legal and economic action, which he described as “a peaceful, practical and effective defence”.
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