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Downing Street has responded by insisting the UK’s place on the Falkland Islands “isn’t going to change”. Asked in regards to the experiences, the Prime Minister’s official spokesman mentioned: “The UK position is clear and isn’t going to change… It’s a long standing one. It’s an unchanged one, and it will remain the case.” He earlier mentioned: “The Falkland Islands have hugely voted overwhelmingly in favour of remaining a UK overseas territory, and we’ve always stood behind the islanders’ right to self-determination and the fact that sovereignty rests with the UK.” Asked if the Government was nervous by the chance of the US altering its place on the Falklands, the spokesman mentioned: “No, and as I say, we’ve expressed this position previously, clearly and consistently to successive US administrations, and nothing is going to change that.”

An inner Pentagon e mail set out choices for Donald Trump’s administration to punish Nato allies for refusing to hitch the US-Israeli strikes towards Iran. The memo, first reported by Reuters, prompt reassessing US ‌diplomatic help for “imperial possessions” such because the Falklands. The Foreign Office, nonetheless, is treating the potential shift within the US place as a “hypothetical scenario”.

The US state division describes the Falklands as “administered by the United Kingdom, claimed by Argentina” and makes use of the Spanish title Islas Malvinas alongside the English title.

The row is the newest signal of the strains within the US-UK relationship because the King and Queen put together for his or her state go to on Monday. The No 10 spokesman mentioned: “We are absolutely confident the state visit will showcase the very best of the UK-US bilateral relationship, from security to our economic ties, and our people to people relationships.”

Argentina has lengthy claimed sovereignty over the Falkland Islands and invaded them in 1982 earlier than being defeated in a brief however bloody struggle. The US president is an ally of Argentina’s president Javier Milei and Mr Trump’s relationship with Sir Keir has deteriorated dramatically for the reason that begin of the Iran disaster.

Limited permission was then granted for bases – together with RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire and Diego Garcia within the British Indian Ocean Territory – for use in defensive actions towards Iran’s missile websites and installations threatening the Strait of Hormuz, however solely after Tehran’s retaliatory actions started.

The Pentagon e mail expressed frustration at Nato allies’ reluctance to grant entry, basing and overflight (ABO) rights for the Iran struggle. It prompt Spain may very well be suspended from the Nato alliance over its refusal to permit bases or airspace for use to assault Iran.

Downing Street backs Spain’s membership of the “absolutely critical” alliance. Tory chief Kemi Badenoch mentioned the US stance was “absolute nonsense”. She mentioned: “We need to make sure that we back the Falklands. They are British territory. I don’t know what Donald Trump is talking about. This sounds like the sort of thing he was saying when it came to Greenland.”