Speaking on Sky News, Chris Bryant, who is Foreign Office Minister with responsibility for Latin America, said that the Falkland Islanders have "every legal right" to drill for oil in the Falklands.
Chris Bryant was speaking ahead of the Argentinean Foreign Minister's meeting with Ban Ki-moon on 24 February and said the UK has "absolutely no doubt about our sovereignty over the Falkland Islands".
He said we would be "monitoring the situation closely" but stressed that there was not any kind of "abandonment of peaceful discussions".
Chris Bryant added:
'We have no interest in escalating the kind of rhetoric that some people have been engaged in, we're just very certain that the Falklands are British, the Falkland Islanders want to be part of the United Kingdom and we welcome that and we stand by them.'
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