Falkland Islands

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 20 February 2012.

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Photo of Philip Hammond Philip Hammond The Secretary of State for Defence 2:30, 20 February 2012

I can answer the right hon. Gentleman unequivocally by saying yes. It is important that we also recognise that the crew in Buenos Aires, as he puts it, is quite a different crew from the fascist dictatorship that invaded the Falkland Islands using conscripts back in 1982. We are dealing with a democratic Argentina that has publicly eschewed the use of military force in pursuing its claim to the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands.