Argentina Reiterates
Sovereignty Over
Malvinas (Falkland)
Islands
Argentine President
Cristina Fernandez said
on Wednesday her country
"cannot abandon" its
sovereignty claim on the
Malvinas Islands (called
the Falkland Islands in
Britain).
Argentina must "advance
with the islands' heroic
deed that cannot be
renounced nor denied,"
Fernandez said at a
Veterans Day and Victims
of the South Atlantic
war ceremony held at El
Palomar city in Buenos
Aires province.
On April 2 1982,
Argentina launched a
military campaign to
recover the Malvinas
Islands. Argentina's
forces were defeated on
June 14 1982 by the
British forces.
The ceremony was carried
out at the weapons plaza
of the First Aerial
Brigade before many war
veterans and attended by
the Armed Forces' Joint
Chief of Staff,
Brigadier Jorge
Chevallier.
Fernandez also
criticized the past
policies of Carlos Saul
Menem's government in
the 1990s with respect
to the United Kingdom.
The ceremony was also
attended by cabinet
ministers and
high-ranking commanders
from the Armed Forces
and Security.
"We will continue
working so our voice is
heard denouncing the
shame that a colonial
enclave continues to
exist in the 21st
century," Fernandez
said.
Argentine Vice President
Julio Cobos headed
another ceremony in
front of the "Monument
to the Fallen in the
Falklands" in
Argentina's capital,
Buenos Aires.
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