UNITED KINGDOM: ARGENTINE FOREIGN MINISTER GUIDO DI TELLA MEETS ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OF THE DISPUTED FALKLAND ISLANDS FOR TALKS IN LONDON

Record ID: 336871

  • Title: UNITED KINGDOM: ARGENTINE FOREIGN MINISTER GUIDO DI TELLA MEETS ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OF THE DISPUTED FALKLAND ISLANDS FOR TALKS IN LONDON
  • Date: 26th May 1999
  • Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (MAY 26, 1999) (REUTERS) 1. WS EXTERIOR FOREIGN OFFICE 0.05 2. MV/WS ARGENTINIAN / BRITSH DELEGATION PREPARING TO TAKE SEATS (2 SHOTS) 0.13 3. SV BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE MINISTER TONY LLOYD GREETING ARGENTINIAN FOREIGN MINISTER GUIDO DI TELLA 0.19 4. SV FALKLAND ISLANDS LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL DELEGATION 0
  • Embargoed: 10th June 1999 13:00
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  • Location: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
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  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Reuters ID: LVA2NHQQWBEU3CLG9B8UP0EA6U1F
  • Story Text: Argentine Foreign Minister Guido di Tella has come face
    to face with elected representatives of the disputed Falkland
    Islands (Malvinas) at talks in London.

    The Argentinian claim for sovereignty over the islands
    it calls the Malvinas, and Britain calls the Falklands, are
    not on the agenda of the two-day meeting, according to British
    officials.

    Instead, the talks which opened on Wednesday (May 26) will
    cover issues such as air links, cooperation against illegal
    fishing, oil exploration and mine clearance.

    British junior Foreign Office minister Tony Lloyd,
    deputising for foreign minister Robin Cook who is travelling
    to Europe for talks on the Kosovo conflict, heads a British
    delegation including members of the Falkland Islands
    Legislative Council.

    This week's meeting between the Falklands deputies and the
    Argentinian delegation led by Di Tella and his deputy Andres
    Cisneros mark the first such contact since the 1982 war over
    the islands.

    Last month, Di Tella asked British Foreign Minister Robin
    Cook for talks on air links to the south Atlantic islands.

    Chile cancelled the only direct flight between the islands and
    South America last year in retaliation for Britain's arrest
    last October of former dictator Augusto Pinochet.

    The 2,000 fiercely pro-British islanders have banned
    flights to the Argentine mainland since the 1982 Falklands War
    with Argentina, which has claimed sovereignty of the islands
    since 1833.

    Argentina's then military junta captured the islands for
    10 weeks before its forces were expelled by a British
    taskforce in a war that left almost 1,000 dead, mostly
    Argentine servicemen.


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