AS THOUSANDS OF WAR VETERANS LOOKED ON, PRESIDENT EDUARDO DUHALDE INSI...

World | April 3, 2002, Wednesday // 00:00

As thousands of war veterans looked on, President Eduardo Duhalde insisted Tuesday that Argentina would one day reclaim the Falkland Islands through diplomacy -- not by waging war. Argentina contends it inherited the remote islands, populated by about 2,200 people of mostly British ancestry, from the Spanish crown before they were occupied by Britain in 1833. Duhalde laid a wreath in the icy waters off Ushuaia, 1,500 miles south of Buenos Aires, and talked of pursuing Argentina's long-standing claims to the islands through diplomatic channels.

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