Argentina's Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno has restated his country's claim over the Falkland Islands (a South Atlantic archipelago administered by the United Kingdom since 1833 and the subject of a 1982 war between the two nations) in a newspaper article arguing that the territory's population — described as "implanted" by an occupying power — cannot determine the islands' sovereignty. Quirno dismissed the 2013 referendum, in which 99.8% of islanders voted to remain a British overseas territory, as legally invalid, insisting that only bilateral negotiations between Buenos Aires and London can resolve the dispute. The UK government maintains that sovereignty lies with Britain and that the islanders' right to self-determination is paramount, a position the islanders themselves have forcefully defended at recent UN forums.