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UK/ARGENTINE RELATIONS
BRITISH INITIATIVES TOWARDS MORE NORMAL RELATIONS?
Want more normal relations.
Since 1982 series of British initiatives,
humanitarian, trade, finance, fish.
ARGENTINE ATTITUDE?
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Argentine response disappointing. Insist on
sovereignty link.
Discrimination against British shipping, air
services, British goods and firms.
WHY NO NEGOTIATIONS ON SOVEREIGNTY?
Invasion destroyed previously good relations:
shattered Islanders' confidence.
Need is to rebuild confidence and restore more
normal relations: realism.
Only solution acceptable to Argentina is transfer of sovereignty irrespective of Islanders' wishes.
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