UK calls for FIFA inquiry into ‘Falklands are Argentine’ banner – POLITICO

LONDON — A top U.K. minister is calling on FIFA to investigate the “entirely inappropriate” banner unfurled by some of Argentina’s players after their World Cup victory against England.

Peter Kyle, the business secretary, told Times Radio on Thursday that he hopes world football’s governing body will “do a proper inquiry” into the incident involving the sign, which read  “Las Malvinas son Argentinas” — which translates to “The Falkland Islands are Argentine.”

London and Buenos Aires went to war over the islands in 1982. Located approximately 500 kilometers off Argentina’s coast, the remote archipelago remains a U.K. territory, though Argentina claims it as its own.