Post date: Apr 02, 2012 2:43:29 PM
STAFFORDSHIRE, UK (APRIL 2, 2012) (ITN - While the 30th anniversary of the Falklands invasion was marked at the National Memorial Arboretum's Millennium Chapel on Monday (April 2), tension between the UK and Argentina remained at the chilliest in years.
The 30th anniversary of the invasion of the Falklands is marked at the UK's National Memorial Arboretum's Millennium Chapel.
Families of those killed and veterans of the conflict lit candles in memory of the war.
Thirty years after Britain and Argentina went to war over the Falklands, relations have reached a low as Buenos Aires launches a multi-pronged diplomatic offensive to assert its claim to sovereignty over the South Atlantic islands.
While a new military conflict is seen as highly unlikely, the dispute could jeopardize Britain's drive for closer economic and trade ties with emerging Latin America powers such as Brazil that it hopes will kick start the stagnating British economy.
The discovery of oil off the Falklands has raised the stakes, leading Argentina to threaten to sue companies involved in oil exploration and to protest to the United Nations over British "militarisation" of the South Atlantic.