Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman is meeting UN chief Ban Ki-moon to discuss his country’s concerns over Britain’s “militarisation” of the seas around the disputed Falkland Islands.

Argentina’s president accused Britain of “militarising the South Atlantic” and said she would complain to the UN, as tension rises ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Falklands war.

Argentina is to make a formal complaint to the United Nations Security Council after accusing Britain of “militarising” their long dispute over the Falkland Islands.

THE Falklands war was in full swing and John Paul II was in London as the first pope ever to set foot on English soil.

Argentina asked for US help in resolving the brewing dispute with the UK over the Falkland Islands, where Britain has begun drilling for oil.

Latin American and Caribbean nations backed Argentina’s claim of sovereignty to the Falkland Islands in a growing dispute with Britain over plans to drill for oil off the islands in the Atlantic.

Tensions between the UK and Argentina mounted today as a British oil rig began drilling off the Falkland Islands.

Argentina’s coastguard detained a Falkand Islands-registered fishing vessel suspected of operating illegally in Argentina’s so-called “economic exclusion zone” in the South Atlantic.