The Uruguayan government has dismissed a request by a British warship, heading for the Malvinas Islands, to enter the port of Montevideo, Foreign Minister Reinaldo Cargano said Thursday.
The request to supply the ship in the port was aimed at carrying on its duty of controlling sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands, said Cargano to reporters.
Under an agreement reached after the war on Malvinas Islands, British warships could be allowed to berth at Uruguay's ports out of humanitarian reasons, he added.
Uruguay's rejection was to avoid any misunderstanding at a time when the new Argentine President Cristina Fernandez came into office, he said.
The Argentine president, who was sworn in on Dec. 10, had reiterated that Argentina owned the sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands, called Falklands by the British side.
Argentina and Uruguay have been at odds over a paper mill on their border. Uruguay had once closed all passages to Argentina and the bilateral relations had been tense.
A dispute has existed all along between Argentina and Britain on the islands sovereignty.
Source: Xinhua
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