The prime minister shared his displeasure that the issue was raised when leaders met on the sidelines of a summit in Germany shortly after the 40th anniversary of the South Atlantic War. Asked if he was disappointed that Mr Fernandez mentioned the British takeover, Johnson told reporters: “Yes”, before saying he had recalled that the matter had been settled. “It had been decided decisively for many, many years and I saw no reason to engage in a meaningful debate on it,” he said during a G7 trip to the NATO summit in Madrid. He added: “I was pointing out that we were spending a lot of time talking about Ukraine, where the principle at stake was the right of sovereign independent people to determine their own future.” The undeclared war between Britain and Argentina in 1982, following the invasion of the islands by General Leopoldo Galtieri’s junta, claimed the lives of 255 British troops. According to a statement from the Argentine delegation after the G7 summit, Mr Fernandez said the Falkland Islands were a “colonial enclave” and that the issue of sovereignty was different from that of Ukraine. The president also reportedly asked the prime minister to resume flights to the islands from Argentina. “I understand that our friends in the Argentine delegation presented it as a tougher discussion than it was,” Mr Johnson said on Tuesday. “I would say she was honest, free – but she seemed friendly.” Asked what he had said to Mr Fernandez, he added: determine their future. according to the basic diplomatic principles and have the right to be British “. Meanwhile, it emerged that Johnson and French President Emanuel Macron were drinking whiskey together at the G7 summit in Bavaria on Sunday night, according to a British government source. “The prime minister is not much of a drinker, nor a party late at night,” the official said, revealing that Johnson woke up early Monday morning for a swim. Mr Johnson also enjoyed “ongoing mockery” of his Canadian counterpart Justin Trinto over infamous photos of Vladimir Putin’s naked horse rides. “Trinto ran around the lake as the prime minister swam in it,” the source said. “So the mockery of riding barefoot and imitating Putin and showing off their friends took on a new lease of life.”
