The UK has warned it will maintain a military presence in the Falkland Islands to protect it from outside attacks.

The UK government has confirmed that the military presence in Falkland Islands to protect it from external threats, according to a strategic review of security, defense and foreign policy, the first published since Brexit.

The armed forces will “deter and defy incursions into British territorial waters off Gibraltar” and “maintain a permanent presence in the Falkland Islands, Ascension Island and the British Indian Ocean Territory ”, indicates the document of more than 100 pages, which will be presented this Tuesday by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and whose content was broadcast in the last hours by the British press.

In this regard, a government source said The telegraph: “The UK is far from abandoning its transatlantic commitments. They are empowered and held in high esteem“.

The Tory prime minister will give details of the so-called integrated review of his foreign and domestic security policy, which will also place, according to British media, Russia as the biggest foreign threat to its defense. According to the authors, this is the biggest overhaul in the industry since the Cold War.

The United Kingdom will raise the maximum ceiling of its arsenal of nuclear warheads from 180 to 260, an increase of almost 45%, as detailed in this policy review. “Given that the circumstances and threats change over time, we must maintain a minimum and credible level of deterrence,” Foreign Minister Dominic Raab said in radio statements. BBC. Defense budget increase will be $ 33 billion.

The news of an increase in the nuclear arsenal scandalized the ICAN (International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons), for which “violates the commitments [Londres] it adopted it within the framework of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty ”.

According to a statement from Downing Street, Johnson will tell MPs during the presentation of the report that his country “play a more active role in maintaining an international order in which open economies and societies continue to thrive and the benefits of prosperity are shared through free trade and global growth. “

The review, which was promoted with particular force by former Johnson adviser Dominc Cummings, finds that there are “new powers” trying to undermine the international order open and liberal societies that emerged from the Cold War.

In this context, the United Kingdom, with its “independence” regained after leaving the EU, “can no longer rely on an obsolete international system” to protect its interests and promote its values, underlines the document.

For this reason, he advocates using “all the weapons at his disposal” to increase his international presence and shape an international order that promotes the progress of democracies.

(With information from AFP)

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