Argentine VP tells islanders to 'go back to England' as US presses UK over F-16 jets

“The Falklands sovereignty dispute returned to the centre of the diplomatic agenda this week with two developments of immediate impact: comments by Argentine Vice President Victoria Villarruel demanding that islanders "go back to England" if they "feel English" — despite the fact that in the 2013 referendum islanders voted by a 99.8% majority to remain British — and a disclosure published by The Telegraph that the United States had pressured the British government to tolerate the delivery to Argentina of F-16 fighter jets sourced from allied territory.

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