The UK was once a dominant colonial power in many countries on the continent of Africa. Nowadays the UK as lead member of the Commonwealth of Nations seeks to influence Africa through its foreign policies. Current UK disputes are with Zimbabwe over alleged human rights violations. Tony Blair has set up the Africa Commission and urged countries to end Third World Debt.

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Major international disputes between the UK and foreign countries since 1945

• 1946 – territorial disputes with Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, DDR, Bulgaria and others.
• 1948-1949 – Berlin Blockade - dispute with USSR over access to West Berlin^[7]
• 1950-1953 – Korean War - war with the People's Republic of China/North Korea
• 1951-1954 – Abadan Crisis - dispute with Iran over expropriated oil assets
• 1956-1957 – Suez Crisis - armed conflict with Egypt, and dispute with most of international community
• 1958 – First Cod War - fishing dispute with Iceland
• 1962-1966 – Konfrontasi - war with Indonesia
• 1972-1973 – Second Cod War - fishing dispute with Iceland
• 1975-1976 – Third Cod War - fishing dispute with Iceland^[8]
• 1980 – with Australia over nuclear testing by the United Kingdom in lands claimed by some Aboriginal groups to be sacred.
• 1982 – Falklands War - war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands
• 1983 – dispute with the United States over its Invasion of Grenada, of which Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is the monarch.^[9][10]
• 1984 – dispute with Libya after a policewoman is shot dead in London by a gunman from within the Libyan embassy.
• 1988 – further dispute with Libya over the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight over the Scottish town of Lockerbie^[11]
• 1991 – Gulf War with Iraq^[12]
• 1994 – dispute with the European Union, United States and Canada over the ban on exports of British meat products, UK withdraws co-operation with the EU organisation.
• 1995 – involvement in Yugoslavia (specifically Bosnia) through NATO
• 1999 – involvement in NATO bombing campaign on Kosovo
• 2001 – occupation of Afghanistan
• 2003 – war against, and subsequent occupation of, Iraq, including disputes with Russia, France, and Germany
• 2007 – (ongoing) diplomatic dispute with Russia over the death of Alexander Litvinenko^[13]

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Sovereignty Disputes

• Spain claims the Isthmus of Gibraltar.^[14]
• Argentina claims the overseas territories of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.^[15]
• Mauritius claims the entire Chagos Archipelago in the British Indian Ocean Territory, including the island of Diego Garcia used as a joint UK/US military base since the 1950s when the inhabitants were forcibly removed, Blenheim Reef, Speakers Bank and all the other features.^[16]
• Dispute over territorial waters and continental shelf rights around Rockall.^[17]
• There is a territorial claim in Antarctica, the British Antarctic Territory, which overlaps with areas claimed by Chile and Argentina.^[18]

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References

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See also

• British military history
• British Moment
• Common Travel Area
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• Department for International Development
• Heads of United Kingdom Missions
• Sino-British Joint Declaration
• Indo-British Joint Declaration
• British diplomatic missions
• List of diplomatic missions in the United Kingdom
• Anglo-Portuguese Alliance

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External links

• Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• Department for International Development

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