Falkland Islands issue statementThe Falkland Islands have issued a statement after members of the Argentina squad held up a banner after their win over England.The statement read:The Falkland Islands Government is disappointed – though regrettably not surprised - that the Argentine football team decided to tarnish the result of last night’s World Cup football semi-final - a game that didnot in any case involve the Falkland Islands.That said, it is hardly news to anyone that the people of the Islands were victims of an aggressive invasion in 1982, which left many traumatised. The banner displayed by Argentina last night, therefore, was particularly insensitive for many people in the Falklands.It is the avowed policy of the Falkland Islands Government that we do not wish to see politics being brought into sport. Nor do we wish the Islands and their people to be used as a political football in every conversation about England and Argentina. We welcome the UK Government’s supportive statement this morning.As Business Secretary Peter Kyle highlighted, the World Cup has as one of its central tenets that politics is separate from football. We hope FIFA will make good on their promise to keep politics out of sport, and sanction all behaviour of this nature in line with its own rules. Beloud