Earlier this month an Argentine Federal Judge ordered that the assets of foreign oil companies exploring and drilling in the area of the Falkland Islands, be seized.  Judge Lilian Herraez also ordered the impounding of ships belonging to these  oil companies.

Argentina has complained about the recent deployment of Prince William to the Falkands as well as the British deployment of an advanced destroyer to patrol the waters near the disputed archipelago. The British Foreign Office has released a statement that says that the people of the Falkland Islands are British by choice and that there will be no sovereignty discussions with Argentina unless the residents of the Islands want such talks. The Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has said that she is going to complain to the United Nations about what she termed UK militarization of this conflict.