The prime minister rejected Fernández’s call to restore the Falklands’s “territorial integrity” by returning

Protesters angry at the

Argentina responsed angrily what it called a “militarization” of its dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands and expressed dismay over the dispatch of Prince William to the zone “in a conqueror’s uniform.”

Israel called the announcement by Buenos Aires “regrettable” and said it went against an Israeli-Palestinian agreement that such a state should only be recognized with Israeli approval.

Clinton is making it clear that the United States supports direct dialogue between Britain and Argentina in the islands dispute that triggered a brief war between the two countries