MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for August 2nd 2001
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Thursday, August 2nd 2001 - 21:00 UTC
Falklands hero attacks “absurd” compensation claims.
The former Welsh Guardsman, Simon Weston, severely burned when Argentine aircraft set ablaze the troop transport ship Sir Galahad in the Falklands War, has launched a strong attack on police officers and others “pre-occupied in our claim and blame society with asserting their ?right' to compensation for every grievance real or imaginary”.
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Thursday, August 2nd 2001 - 21:00 UTC
“A normal working relation with Argentina”, said Prime Minister.
Tony Blair, the first serving British Prime Minister to visit Argentina expressed full support for the Argentine government and President Fernando De la Rúa “zero-deficit” austerity package, and insisted it's important that “Britain today has a normal working relation with Argentina”.
