Argentina’s president urges Falklands talks with Britain
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | January 3, 2013 20:07
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez called for talks with Britain over the disputed Falkland Islands in an open letter to Prime Minister David Cameron published in British newspapers on Thursday.
Britain and Argentina fought a 10-week war in 1982 over the remote South Atlantic islands, which are part of Britain’s self-governing overseas territories.
Fernandez has marked the 30th anniversary of the conflict with a sustained diplomatic campaign to assert Argentina’s sovereignty claim.
The Falklands cause is a popular rallying cry in Argentina but the stakes have also been raised by oil exploration in the waters around the islands.
In the letter, published as an advert in several national newspapers, Kirchner said the South Atlantic islands were “forcibly stripped” from Argentina 180 years ago today “in a blatant exercise of 19th-century colonialism”.
“Since then, Britain, the colonial power, has refused to return the territories to the Argentine Republic, thus preventing it from restoring its territorial integrity,” she wrote.
In her open letter, Fernandez accused Britain of breaching United Nationsresolutions urging the two countries to negotiate a solution to the dispute over the Falklands, known in Argentina as Las Malvinas.
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