sun 03 jan 2016, 21:19

Argentina wants to talk about Falkland islands

Gentoo pignuïns on the falkland islands
Photo: REUTERS

BUENOS AIRES –

Argentina is going to once again attempt the Falkland islands to its territory to add. The government of the South American country left Sunday to know with Britain to want to talk about the legal status of the archipelago since 1833 in British hands. Both countries carried out in 1982, a brief war over the archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, about 400 kilometers off the coast of the south of Argentina. In that war fell at that time, about 900 dead.

“Argentina underlined the will for a peaceful solution to the conflict, and invites Britain for the talks to resume”, according to the Argentine ministry of Foreign Affairs Sunday.

The inhabitants of the archipelago spoke for a survey in 2013, in large majority to Great Britain to stay. The group of islands, in Spanish, Malvinas, has a surface area of over 12,000 square kilometres and has about 3.000 inhabitants.