Argentina's President Wants the U.K. To Surrender the Falklands
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David Cameron must return the Falkland Islands to Argentina, 180 years after the territories were "forcibly stripped" from the South American country, the country's president has claimed in newspaper adverts.
In an emotional open letter to the British prime minister, Cristina Kirchner, Argentina's president, has called on him to honour a United Nations resolution dating from 1965 and start negotiations about handing over the islands.
The letter, which was due to be published in the British national newspaper The Guardian on Thursday, is timed to mark the anniversary of when on January 3 1833, Britain took control of the islands from the Falklands.
The 212-word letter, copied to Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general of the United Nations, repeatedly refers to the Falklands as the Malvinas, the Argentine Government's Spanish name for the islands.
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