Britain has signed two protocols to the 1967 treaty, according to which it
vowed to support denuclearisation of Latin America.
Mr Grant denied militarising the region and said Britain had a “purely
defensive military posture” for the islands. He neither confirmed nor
denied reports that a nuclear-armed British submarine is lurking around the
Falklands.
He said Britain was open to bilateral dialogue with Argentina and there was no
need for “third-party mediation.” He said it was Buenos Aires, not
London, that was preventing talks aimed at defusing the tensions between the
two nations.
He said that one of the problems in restarting dialogue with Argentina was a
1994 amendment of the country’s constitution requiring the government to
seek to gain sovereignty over the islands.
Argentina has also condemned British plans to deploy one of its most advanced
destroyers, HMS Dauntless, to the area. It has also criticised the posting
of Prince William, second in line to the British throne, to the islands as a
military search-and-rescue pilot.
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