“Britain is a country which supports the right of people to determine their own future,” Hague told The Sun newspaper.
“There should never be reward for bullying or threatening behaviour in international affairs – just as there never should be in our personal lives”, he said.
William Hague said the bullish claims to the Falklands by Christina Fernandez de Kirchener, the Argentine president, only made the islanders more determined to remain British.
A referendum will be held in the Malvinas next month for the islanders to choose whether they want to remain British or rather they want to rejoin Argentina as motherland.
Relations between Argentina and the United Kingdom are now considered more fractious than at any point since the war over islands in 1982.
Hector Timerman, the Argentine foreign minister, recently snubbed talks with Hague because Falklanders were also invited. Timerman even tried to draw comparisons between the dispute and the situation in the occupied West Bank.
“To compare the islands to settlers in the West Bank, which is an occupied land, is absolutely ridiculous”, Hague added.
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