During the main ceremony held at the Malvinas Memorial in Buenos Aires' Plaza San Martín, Defence Minister Horacio Jaunarena said in a short speech that the armed option was definitively discarded, and added that April 2nd., --officially declared War Veteran Day--, was the occasion to pay homage to the soldiers that went to Malvinas.
Argentine businesman Matias Suarez Anzorena of the company Zambrano & Cia. Left the Falklands on Saturday disappointed but not dismayed at the Islanders rejection of his plans to buy their wool.
Britain's Royal Marine Corps, who played a leading part in the original settlement of the Falkland Islands and their recapture from Argentine military occupation in 1982, have a new Commandant General, Major General R.A. Fry, MBE, who recently returned to the United Kingdom from active service in Kosovo.