The Argentine government terminated an agreement with the United Kingdom on Malvinas that it considered detrimental to the sovereignty claim over those islands.

Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero notified his British counterpart, James Cleverly, the end of the so-called "Foradori-Duncan pact".

That agreement was signed during the government of former President Mauricio Macri in 2016, and enabled flights between the archipelago and third countries.

For the current administration of President Alberto Fernández, the pact made concessions to British interests.

Palacio San Martín says the deal also facilitated the exploitation of natural resources by the British occupants of Malvinas.

Cafiero informed Cleverly of the decision yesterday, on the sidelines of a summit of G20 foreign ministers held in New Delhi, India.

The Argentine chief diplomat proposed to his UK counterpart a resumption of the Malvinas negotiations at the UN headquarters.

Meanwhile, the British ambassador in Buenos Aires, Kisty Hayes, regretted the Argentine decision.

According to the London representative, the Foradori-Duncan agreement allowed the identification of Argentine soldiers fallen during the 1982 war.

Those bodies were buried in Malvinas in unmarked graves until a process in charge of the Red Cross allowed their identification as of 2017.

But Argentina's Secretary for Malvinas Affairs, Guillermo Carmona, responded to Hayes that that work had begun much earlier.

On Twitter, Carmona expressed: "it is not true that the process began with the pact: they began much earlier thanks to an agreement between Argentina, the United Kingdom and the Red Cross".

"These approaches," the Argentine official told the ambassador, "unveil the unwillingness of your government to comply with international law."

The 2016 agreement was sealed at the British embassy in Buenos Aires between then Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Foradori and the Foreign Office Secretary for the Americas, Alan Duncan.
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