Weekly Report - 13 November 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)

The Argentine foreign ministry reacted with indignation last week to the United Kingdom's approval of a new constitution for the Falkland Islands. Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana said the new constitution constituted a “flagrant violation of the mandate accorded us by the United Nations", and accused the UK of seeking to perpetuate “an anachronistic colonial situation". He said his government would lodge a formal complaint against what he described as a “violation of Argentine sovereignty".

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