Argentina offers coronavirus aid to UK citizens in Falklands


  • World
  • Tuesday, 24 Mar 2020

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - The Argentine government said on Monday it had reached out to Britain`s ambassador in Buenos Aires to offer material support to the inhabitants of the Falkland Islands hit by the coronavirus outbreak, almost four decades after losing control of the territory in a two-month war.

"I have conveyed to Ambassador (Mark) Kent the message from Foreign Minister Felipe Sola that, in such difficult times, solidarity has to be the way to overcome the situation caused by coronavirus," said Daniel Filmus, secretary of the Malvinas -- as the Argentines called the Falklands, Antarctica and South Atlantic -- a statement.

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