Anniversary of Falklands Occupation Is Marked
From Times Wire Reports
As more than 2,000 war veterans looked on, President Eduardo Duhalde insisted that Argentina would one day reclaim the Falkland Islands through diplomacy--not by waging war.
“They’re ours, and we’re going to recover them,” he said at a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of Argentina’s invasion of the South Atlantic archipelago. Britain recaptured the islands, which Argentina calls the Malvinas, after a 10-week war.
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