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Colin
any chance the Spanish have thought about ceding Argentina back to the 
original inhabitants, next thing you know the indigenous populations 
around the world will be wanting their country's back too, don't think 
there would be enough room in the UK to take their contingent back
frank

On 3/19/2013 5:09 AM, x50type wrote:
> cheeky sod.....................
> ct
>
>
>   Argentina's Kirchner raises Falklands with Pope Francis
>
> President Fernandez is the first head of state to be received by the 
> new Pope
>
> *Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner says she has asked 
> for the Pope's intervention in the Falklands dispute between her 
> country and the UK.*
>
> Visiting the Vatican, Ms Fernandez said she had asked the Pope to 
> promote dialogue between the two sides.
>
> Argentine Pope Francis was elected last week and will be formally 
> installed as pontiff at a Mass on Tuesday.
>
> In the past he has said the Falkland Islands, a UK overseas territory, 
> belong to Argentina.
>
> Before Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected, the 76-year-old was 
> Archbishop of Buenos Aires. Relations between him, Ms Fernandez, and 
> her late husband and predecessor as president, Nestor Kirchner, were 
> tense.
>
> "I asked for his intervention to avoid problems that could emerge from 
> the militarization of Great Britain in the south Atlantic," Ms 
> Fernandez told reporters after a 15-20 minute meeting and lunch with 
> the Pope.
>
> President Kirchner says she wants dialogue between Argentina and the UK
>
> "We want a dialogue and that's why we asked the pope to intervene so 
> that the dialogue is successful."
>
> The BBC's Alan Johnston reports from Rome that there has been no word 
> yet as to how the Pope responded to the appeal.
>
> In a referendum held a week ago, people in the Falkland Islands voted 
> overwhelmingly in favour of remaining a UK
>

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