Argentina warns it could 'fully exercise all actions' over Falklands oil drilling plans

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Argentina's government warned it could fully utilize all available measures in response to Britain's Rockhopper Exploration and its Israeli partner Navitas Petroleum advancing oil drilling plans near the Falkland Islands. This escalates the sovereignty dispute between Argentina and the UK over the region.

Argentina's government warned that it could "fully exercise all" available actions over plans to develop an oil field near the Falkland Islands, in a fresh escalation of the sovereignty dispute. The Foreign Ministry declared the plans of Britain's Rockhopper Exploration "unlawful" and described that company and its Israeli partner, Navitas Petroleum, as "clandestine," after the Sea Lion project moved from exploration into development.