The World - News from Aug. 17, 1989
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Representatives of Britain and Argentina began talks at the United Nations aimed at normalizing diplomatic and trade relations that were severed after the 1982 war over the Falkland Islands. Britain’s U.N. mission said the meetings between Crispin Tickell, Britain’s U.N. ambassador, and Lucio Garcia del Solar, the director-general of Argentina’s Foreign Ministry, “will be without prejudice to the sovereignty positions of either side regarding the Falkland Islands.” Argentina’s new president, Carlos Saul Menem, made the dialogue possible when he dropped his country’s insistence that recognition of Argentina’s claim of sovereignty over the islands be the first step in any talks.
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