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Argentine president lays 'inalienable'
claim to Falklands
AFP
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Argentina's claim to the Falkland Islands, which
remain in British hands after the 1982 war between the two countries,
is "inalienable," President Cristina Kirchner said Wednesday.
"The sovereign claim to the Malvinas Islands is inalienable,"
she said in a speech marking the 26th anniversary of Argentina's
ill-fated invasion of the islands, located 480 kilometers (300
miles) off shore.
The April 2, 1982 invasion prompted then British prime minister
Margaret Thatcher to deploy naval forces to retake the Falklands,
known as the Malvinas in Spanish.
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The short, bloody conflict led to Argentina's surrender on June
14, 1982 after the death of 649 Argentines and 255 Britons.
Historians saw the invasion as an attempt by Argentina's ruling
military junta, which was then in power, to divert attention away
from domestic problems.
In her speech Kirchner called for Argentina to strengthen its
representation in international bodies to denounce "this
shameful colonial enclave in the 21st century."
And Vice President Julio Cobos said in the southern city of Rio
Grande that "we must recover this territory that is ours,
that belongs to us."
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