This is confirmed by the satellite tracking website www.marinetraffic.com , which positions the research vessel operated by the British Antarctic Survey, a short distance from the capital of the neighbouring country.
The information was provided last night via private message on Twitter by the Chilean-Magellanic César Quezada , who was criticized by Agenda Malvinas for his provocative comments regarding the announced visit of the United Kingdom's Minister of Defense, Luke Pollard , to the Malvinas Islands.
The presence of the British scientific vessel occurs hours after the change in the leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship of the Argentine Republic, marked by the departure of Diana Mondino and the entry of Gerardo Werthein , the decapitation of the entire ministerial cabinet and the promise of a purge within the Foreign Ministry, with all those who do not share the libertarian ideas of the government of Javier Milei.
In this context, it is unlikely that the Foreign Ministry or any national official of the current administration will raise a diplomatic complaint to the Uruguayan government regarding the presence of the pirate-flagged ship in the waters of the River Plate.
No act of repudiation in defence of Argentine sovereign rights violated by Great Britain can be expected. Nor has it been done for the flight of a British Royal Air Force plane that on Monday stopped at El Galeao international airport in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), bound for the Malvinas Islands.
Even less can be expected from the Tierra del Fuego government headed by Gustavo Melella , who gave up his vocation to claim Argentine and Tierra del Fuego sovereign rights over the Malvinas Islands and the maritime territories usurped by the United Kingdom, in exchange for the monetary gifts granted to him by the Milei administration, to sustain his uncertain governability.
The British icebreaker and scientific vessel RRS Sir David Attenborough left the port of Harwich in the United Kingdom, then touched port on the Portuguese island of Madeira, crossed the Atlantic to the port of Recife in Brazil, and is now a few miles from Montevideo. Final stopover on its voyage to Puerto Argentino in the Malvina Islands, where it will be operating during the southern summer, in the South Georgia Islands and Antarctica.
