The British ocean patrol vessel HMS Medway was detected navigating through Argentine-jurisdiction waters without previously notifying national authorities.
Official sources confirmed that between Thursday and Friday, the Argentine Navy detected the British warship heading toward the Strait of Magellan after setting sail from the Malvinas Islands.
The patrol vessel entered waters under national jurisdiction off the coasts of Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego without British military authorities issuing any notification.
This has once again strained a sensitive aspect of bilateral relations with the United Kingdom: compliance with the military trust-building mechanisms established after the Malvinas War and the growing logistical infrastructure supporting the British military presence in the South Atlantic.
News of the incident quickly reached the Foreign Ministry, where officials were considering the possibility of filing a diplomatic protest through back channels due to the failure to comply with the procedures set forth in the so-called Madrid II Agreement, signed in 1990 to prevent military incidents between the two countries.
