Argentina turns to Wales for help with Falkland Islands

The Falklands Islands Government is planning to hold a referendum next year in
a bid to see off the increasingly aggressive claim from Argentina on the
islands.

Buenos Aires is thought to have been trying to capitalise on historical links
between Wales and Argentina.

In Patagonia, in the south of the country, a dialect of the Welsh language is
spoken among thousands of expat descendants of Welsh ancestors who first
settled there in 1865.

The settlers built Welsh chapels and their descendants even organise a regular
cultural festival. In 2004, the Welsh speakers in Argentina asked to access
Welsh television programmes to encourage the growth of the language.

During the Falklands War between Britain and Argentina 30 years ago, there
were Welsh language speakers in both sets of troops.

No one was available to comment from the Argentinian embassy in London on
Wednesday. The Foreign Office declined to comment.

Earlier this week at the G20 summit in Mexico, Argentina accused David Cameron
of refusing to accept an envelope with UN resolutions on the Falklands issue
from Argentina’s President Cristina Kirchner.

Ms Kirchner argued her case last week at a UN decolonisation committee, and at
the Los Cabos G20 summit in Mexico on Tuesday apparently tried to hand Mr
Cameron a folder holding United Nations resolutions, saying the British
should negotiate with Buenos Aires.

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