Conflict of the Beagle
See also: Beagle (homonymy)
The conflict of the Beagle is a territorial argument between the Argentine and the Chile in connection with the island S Lennox, Nueva and Picton, which failed to cause a war between the two countries in 1978.
These islands are with a strategic position with the Eastern outlet of the Canal Beagle in the south of the Ground of Fire, offering a maritime space and possible claims on the Péninsule the Antarctic of which it are the South American territories closest.
In spite of a mediation of the Vatican since 1979 by the envoy of the pope Jean-Paul II, the cardinal Antonio Samoré, the tensions lasted until the Argentinian defeat at the time of the Guerre of the Falklands (where Chile was the only South American state to support the British) and the advent of a democratic government in December 1983 in Argentina. January 23rd, 1984, Argentina and Chile signed the Tratado de Paz there Amistad (peace treaty and of friendship) in the Vatican which allotted the islands to Chile but most of the maritime laws to Argentina. The treaty included also a delimitation of the Magellan Strait.
Argentinian president Alfonsín organized a referendum and 80% of the voters approved the compromise of the Vatican. The treaty was ratified by Argentina on March 14th, 1985 and Chile on April 12th.
Thereafter, all the other territorial arguments between the 2 countries found a solution negotiated.
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