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Tensions between the UK and Argentina over the Falkland Islands have eased since 2015
Boris Johnson is to make the primary visit by a British foreign secretary to Argentina for 25 years.
Mr Johnson will search to benefit from the development in relations with Buenos Aires since President Mauricio Macri got here to energy in 2015.
Mr Macri has talked of lifting curbs on oil, fishing and transport across the Falkland Islands as tensions eased.
Mr Johnson can even visit Peru and Chile, in an effort to enhance post-Brexit commerce, throughout the five-day tour.
Mr Macri has promised a "new kind of relationship" with the UK following a decade of tensions over the Falklands Islands, a UK abroad territory situated about 530km (330 miles) off Argentina's coast, over which Buenos Aires has lengthy claimed sovereignty and whose invasion in 1982 led to a 74-day navy battle with the UK.
His predecessors Nestor and Cristina Ferdez de Kirchner sought to isolate the Falklands economically, placing strain on British and US corporations not to drill for oil within the waters across the islands and requiring all vessels travelling between Argentina and the islands to search prior permission.
Since Mr Macri got here to energy, better dialogue between the international locations has resulted in additional direct flights between the islands and Argentina and a mission to assist establish the stays of unknown Argentine troopers who died throughout the battle and had been buried on the islands.
The UK is eager on deeper financial and political co-operation with Argentina however has insisted the query of the Falklands' sovereignty just isn't on the desk.
In 2013 the islanders voted overwhelmingly to stay a UK territory.
As properly as holding talks with Mr Macri, Mr Johnson will attend an assembly of G20 foreign ministers in Buenos Aires. This is a precursor to a summit of world leaders within the nation in November which can mark the top of Argentina's annual presidency of the physique.
During his journey to Peruthe primary by a British foreign secretary for the reason that 1960sMr Johnson will enterprise into the Amazonian rain forest to visit an animal rescue centre and a college, whose electrical energy and ingesting water are supplied by a UK-funded photo voltaic heating scheme.
The focus of the ultimate leg of his journey to Chile shall be on commerce, with the UK eager to enhance its at present low degree of exports to the nation. Chile has a free commerce settlement with the EU which the UK desires to roll over after Brexit.
"Latin America is a vibrant and dynamic part of the world that works closely with the UK on a number of issues including trade, security, science, infrastructure and education, among others," Mr Johnson mentioned forward of the journey.