International Agreements
Joint Statements and Other Accords Affecting the Falkland Islands
1771 Agreement — Signed January 22, 1771, between the British andSpanish Governments in order to avert an impending war between the two countriesafter Spanish warships forced the British to evacuate their naval base at PortEgmont on Saunders Island on June 10, 1770. The Spanish agreed to reinstate theBritish and to restore all goods confiscated from Port Egmont, but both partiesreiterated their claim to sovereignty of the Falkland Islands. 1971 CommunicationsAgreement — The British Governmentbowed to pressure from Argentina and the United Nations and agreed to a packageof measures that routed all the Islands’ international communications,including passenger flights, through Argentina…
