THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: British relations in South America could falter if the UK Government refuses to hand over the Falkland Islands to Argentina, the country's ambassador to London said today.
Alicia Castro tried to pull Argentina's immediate neighbours into the dispute, claiming UK diplomatic and business relations could be damaged if the islands were not handed over to Buenos Aires.
She said Las Malvinas – Argentina's name for the Falklands – would be better off if they cut their ties with the UK.
Describing the islands as a "colonial enclave", she said her government would send teachers to the islands to teach Spanish, while it also wanted to re-establish direct flights between the Falklands and the mainland.
She told Dermot Murnaghan on Sky News that Argentina "did not want to change the way of life" on the Falklands, insisting the islands had to be "given back to Latin America as a whole". Read on and comment » | Sunday, May 06, 2012
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