EU Signs Deal With Argentina That Refers to Falklands as ‘Malvinas’

A file picture shows a Union Jack Flag flying over Stanley, in the Falkland Islands on March 19, 2007. Daniel Garcia/AFP via Getty Images

The Foreign Office has dealt a blow following the apparent recognition by the European Union of the Argentine name for the Falkland Islands.

EU leaders met with officials of 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 document referred to the contested Falkland Islands as “Islas Malvinas,” which is the Argentine name for the territory.