Lennox, Nueva and Picton

Lennox, Nueva and Picton is three uninhabited island S (as well as other small islands) located at the extreme south of the South America, in the Chilean area of Magallanes there of Antártica Chilena, close to the island Navarino and the southern part of the Isla Grande of Tierra del Fuego in the province Argentine of the province of the Earth of Fire. Their Territorial water has great oil reserves.

Because of their strategic place in the south of the Channel Beagle, the islands were the subject of a long territorial conflict between the Argentine and the Chile (the Conflit of the Beagle ). The two countries agreed to subject the argument to the arbitration of the queen of the United Kingdom Elizabeth II. In May 1977, the queen decided that the islands and all the small small islands while depending belonged to Chile. Argentina refused to accept this decision, and the relations between the two countries became extremely tended, at the edge of the open war. In 1979, the two countries agreed at the time of the Acte of Montevideo to make it possible the pope to undertake a mediation via the good officess of the cardinal Antonio Samoré, his special correspondent. The decision of the pope to allot the islands to Chile involved the ratification of a treaty with Rome in May 1985 in order to put a term at the conflict.

See too

Conflict of the Beagle

External bonds

Lennox, Picton and Nueva since space (Google Maps)
the Act of Montevideo, 8 january 1979 (the United Nations)
" War Averted" , Time of January 22nd, 1979

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