Posted on 01/25/2006 6:50:57 PM PST by blam
Royal Navy hopes Argentine visit will break the ice
By Oliver Balch in Buenos Aires
(Filed: 26/01/2006)
A Royal Navy ship has anchored in an Argentine port for the first time since the Falklands conflict.
During the goodwill visit to Ushuaia, more than 2,000 miles south of the capital Buenos Aires, by the icebreaker Endurance, British and Argentine officers were joined by veterans as they laid wreaths at a monument honouring those who fell on both sides in the fighting 24 years ago. But the presence of Endurance was not universally popular. A resident held a placard that read: "Murdering pirates. English out from the Falklands."
The Government hopes that the visit will signal a thawing in diplomatic relations with Argentina. "This was a gesture of reconciliation on both sides," a British embassy spokesman said in Buenos Aires. "Both the crew of Endurance and the Veteran Association paid respectful homage to those who had fallen in the south Atlantic." Jose Aranibar, the head of the Rio Grande Veterans group, said: "We are against this acknowledgement because we are not allowed to do something similar in Argentine Falklands territory."
24 years ago, a person is growing old when it seems like it was much less then 24 years.:)
More or less what I was thinking, although something more like "Has it really been 24 years?"
All official argentine maps include 'their' section of antarctica, and it is included in official area calculations of the country.
don't believe me? This is like domestic news from the UK, you just cannot make up stuff this absurd.
El Mapa Oficial de la Republica Argentina:
That's pretty much exactly what was going through my mind when I read that....
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