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Timerman lays claim to islands

Argentina will control the Falkland Islands within 20 years, the country's foreign minister has claimed.

Visiting London for the first time, Hector Timerman ruled out a military solution to the long-standing dispute over sovereignty.

In a newspaper interview he denounced the British as fanatics and said they were only interested in the islands because of oil reserves.

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