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| Argentina's senate discusses Falkland Islands' future | |
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| Argentina's upper house, the Senate, is set to discuss the future of the Falkland Islands when it meets later. | |
| Argentina's president earlier condemned UK prime minister David Cameron's claim her government took a "colonialist" attitude to the territory. | |
| Argentina has demanded talks on its claim to sovereignty over the islands, which it calls Las Malvinas. | |
| But the UK has reaffirmed that the Falklands will remain British for as long as its inhabitants want. | |
| Tension has been increasing ahead of the 30th anniversary in April of the two countries' war over the territory. | |
| Making her first public appearance after undergoing surgery, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner criticised David Cameron's remarks. | |
| Her comments came mid-way through a speech to supporters at the Argentine Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires on Wednesday evening | |
| Referring to Mr Cameron's remarks to MPs during prime minister's questions in the House of Commons on 18 January, Mrs Fernandez said that people only talk in such a way when they do not have solid arguments. | |
| "I heard that they were calling us, the Argentines, colonialists," Mrs Fernandez told a packed auditorium after 20 days of medical leave for thyroid surgery. | "I heard that they were calling us, the Argentines, colonialists," Mrs Fernandez told a packed auditorium after 20 days of medical leave for thyroid surgery. |
| "One always is tempted to respond and such, but... it is necessary to avoid it because one says such things when one has no reasons nor arguments." | "One always is tempted to respond and such, but... it is necessary to avoid it because one says such things when one has no reasons nor arguments." |
| She added: "They are trying to paint us as bad guys, or violent guys and really, that is not who we are." | She added: "They are trying to paint us as bad guys, or violent guys and really, that is not who we are." |
| Mr Cameron outraged many in Argentina with his accusation and last Friday protesters marched on the British embassy in Buenos Aires, burning the Union flag, and demanding that diplomatic ties with London be severed. | |
| BBC correspondent Fergal Keane in Buenos Aires says there is no mood in Argentina for military adventurism and the government will instead continue its policy of trying to isolate Britain diplomatically. | |
| The strategy is to invoke regional solidarity with support from countries like Brazil. | |
| Argentina will portray itself as a Latin American nation whose resources of oil and fishing around the islands are being pillaged by outsiders, our correspondent says. | |
| The issue of the Falkland Islands' sovereignty was also raised in Britain's House of Commons on Thursday, with Chairman of the Defence Select Committee James Arbuthnot saying the UK would not let them go. | |
| "If the Falkland Islands were by any chance to be retaken by Argentina, we would take it back," he said. | |
| "Argentina should be in no doubt of that at all." |