South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands Issues - 2021

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Disputes - international

Argentina, which claims the islands in its constitution and briefly occupied them by force in 1982, agreed in 1995 to no longer seek settlement by force

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