The British Prime Minister David Cameron has accused Argentina of colonialism over the Falkland Islands. The two countries fought a war in 1982 over the British territory in the South Atlantic, which Argentina calls the Malvinas. Our political correspondent James Landale reports from Westminster.
Almost 30 years on from the Falklands conflict, tensions are once again rising in the South Atlantic. British energy companies are discovering oil near the islands. Argentina has persuaded neighbouring countries to close their ports to ships flying the Falklands flag, and the
rhetoric
out of Buenos Aires is
heating up
. So today David Cameron
pushed back
, sending what he called a clear message.
"The key point is we support the Falkland Islanders' right to
self-determination
, and what the Argentinians have been saying recently, I would argue, is actually far more like colonialism because these people want to remain British and the Argentinians want them to do something else." Argentina's Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo described Mr Cameron's remarks as totally offensive.
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President Obama has rejected a proposal by a Canadian company to build a huge oil pipeline from Canada to Texas. He's blaming his Republican opponents in Congress, saying they set an
arbitrary
deadline for the decision and didn't allow the government enough time to check the safety of the project, known as the Keystone XL pipeline.