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malaise

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7. Did you see the response from the Argentine Foreign Minister?
Fri Apr 12, 2013, 07:29 AM
Apr 2013
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/11/argentina-responds-thatcher-funeral-snub
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The Argentinian government has broken its official silence and shrugged off news that President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will not be invited to the funeral of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.

"What do I care if I'm not invited somewhere that I wasn't planning on going?" said the foreign minister, Héctor Timerman. "It's just another provocation."

Argentina's aspirations to regain the islands it calls Las Malvinas had remained largely dormant until current President Kirchner and her foreign minister, Timerman, started a campaign at international forums such as the UN. They have also been giving incendiary speeches at home demanding sovereignty for Argentina, which claims it inherited the islands from Spain when it became independent in 1816.

Timerman also dismissed the idea that the capital of the islands, Port Stanley, be renamed Port Margaret. "I don't care if they want to call it Port Margaret, Margarita or Margarona, neither Argentina or the United Nations recognise it," he said. "They keep violating resolutions of the United Nations. Then they use the same resolutions to go bomb other countries."

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