The Foreign Office has dealt a blow following an apparent recognition by the European Union of the Argentine name for the Falkland Islands. EU chiefs met with 33 Latin American countries, known as the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), in Brussels earlier this week and signed the EU-CELAC summit declaration (pdf). The…

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Argentina has again asked the UK to restart negotiations over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, the Argentine Foreign Ministry has said. Argentina has continued to lay territorial claims to the British-run islands in the South Atlantic, over which the two countries fought a war in 1982, costing hundreds of lives. Argentine Foreign Minister Santiago…