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Britain is prepared to defend the Falkland Islands with military force if Argentina launches another invasion, David Cameron has said.
The British PM said troops would be deployed in the event of another attempt by Buenos Aires to re-take the islands.
He made the UK's "extremely strong" position clear after Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the Argentine president, renewed her accusations that the islands were stolen by Britain.
In an escalation of aggressive rhetoric, she took out advertisements in British newspapers claiming that the islands were forcibly stripped from Argentina in "a blatant exercise of 19th Century colonialism".
Her position has hardened since the discovery of potential oil resources off the coast of the islands. (©Daily Telegraph, London)
Irish Independent
