Britain says no to Falklands handover 03.01.13
54The Foreign Office has ruled out negotiating the sovereignty of the Falklands Islands, unless the people who live there suggest otherwise.
The government's responded to an open letter written by Argentina's President to David Cameron asking him to relinquish British control.
The letter, published as an advert in the Guardian and reported in other newspapers, says that Argentina was forcibly stripped of the Malvinas - the Argentinian name for the islands - in "a blatant exercise of 19th-century colonialism".
The 59-year-old president, who made several calls for the return of the islands during last year's 30th anniversary of the two countries going to war, urged the Prime Minister to abide by United Nations resolutions she says back the Argentinian cause.
Forces News spoke to the Falkland Islands Government representative in the UK Sukey Cameron and asked her if the Argentine's president's claim that her country was stripped of the islands 180 years ago, was a valid one?
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