Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what meetings they have arranged with the EU following the EU–CELAC Declaration of 18 July and the statement it included on the Falkland Islands.

The UK is unequivocal, including with the EU and its Member States, that there can be no discussions on sovereignty unless the Falkland Islanders wish. In a referendum in 2013, the Islanders overwhelmingly decided to remain part of the UK family. Ahead of the EU-CELAC (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) Summit, the UK engaged with the EU, at senior official and Ministerial level, to underline the risks that any language on the Falklands would be misrepresented by Argentina as the EU taking a position on the issue. Following publication of the Summit communique we again engaged to express our disappointment at the language used, and to request that the EU publicly clarify that their position has not changed, and that they do not endorse the Argentinian position. They have since done so.