The minister, Hector Timerman, took up the case of James Peck at the annual UN debate on the South Atlantic islands where political leaders from the territory accused Argentina of using "bully boy" tactics.
Peck has become a national hero in Argentina after accepting citizenship so he can be closer to his children who live with his estranged Argentine wife.
His gesture has enraged some in the Falklands which was the venue of a brief war in 1982 when Britain sent a task force to end an Argentine invasion.
"I am forced to denounce the criminal attitude of fanatics that have made death threats against James if he dared to return to the Malvinas islands," Timerman said using the Spanish name for the islands.
"We hold the British authorities who illegally occupy the islands responsible for the security of Argentine citizen James Peck if he decides to exercise his rights to return," the minister told the UN General Assembly's decolonisation committee. » | Tuesday, June 21, 2011
