Britain Lifts Argentine Sanction
In a bid to normalize relations, Britain announced today that it is lifting a ban on imports from Argentina imposed at the start of the 1982 Falklands War.
Britain called on Argentina to lift a similar ban on British products and make trade “a two-way street” but reiterated its refusal to discuss the key political issue of sovereignty of the Falklands, a British colony 300 miles off the coast of Argentina. The ban, to be lifted as of midnight today, will permit Argentina to resume exports to Britain, which in 1981 had been worth more than $180 million.
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