Argentina Seeks Papal Intervention in Falklands Dispute With U.K
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Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner today asked her countryman Pope Francis to help persuade the U.K. to open talks on her country’s sovereignty claim over the Falkland Islands, known in Latin America as Las Malvinas.
“We discussed what is a very sensitive issue for us, the question of Malvinas,” Fernandez, 60, told reporters after having lunch with the Pope at the Vatican. “I asked him to intercede in opening a dialogue between the U.K. and Argentina.”