9th January |
British Ambassador to Argentina lodges formal protest
against unauthorised landing on South Georgia on 20 December 1981 by
Argentine
scrap-metal merchant Constantino Davidoff |
12th January |
Argentine Joint Armed Forces committee beings planning
military invasion of Islands |
24th January |
Junta's plans to capture Islands revealed in a series
of articles in La Prensa newspaper |
2nd February |
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in a private letter
to a Conservative Party activist makes clear that she regards the
Royal Marine presence in Stanley as sufficient to prevent an
Argentine invasion |
3rd February |
Britain renews its formal protest at Davidoff's unauthorised landing |
9th February |
Thatcher confirms retirement of HMS Endurance |
25th February |
Deputy foreign minister Richard Luce begins
sovereignty talks with his Argentine counterpart Ernesto Ros in New
York |
1st March |
British and Argentine deputy foreign ministers issue a
joint communique praising the 'cordial and positive spirit' of
sovereignty discussions held in New York |
2nd March |
Argentine foreign minister rejects the communique and
says that Argentina reserves the right to 'employ other means' if
Britain keeps refusing to cede sovereignty |
3rd March |
MP Julian Amery asks if 'all necessary steps are in
hand to ensure the protection of the Islands against unexpected
attack' but receives an evasive reply |
5th March |
Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington refuses to send a
submarine to patrol off the Islands and South Georgia |
6th March |
Hercules aircraft operated by Argentine military
airline LADE, supposedly on a mail run to an Antarctic base, lands
at Stanley Airport, falsely claiming a fuel leak, and carrying
several senior Argentine officers whom the local LADE commandant
takes on a tour of Stanley and its environs |
8th March |
Thatcher asks the Foreign
Office and Ministry of Defence for contingency plans in case of an
Argentine blockade or invasion of the Islands |
19th March |
Davidoff
sends 40 workmen on naval vessel Bahia Buen Suceso to
dismantle Leith whaling station on South Georgia - the workmen fail
to ask permission to land from the British Antarctic Survey base at
Grytviken and upon arrival hoist the Argentine
flag - Britain lodges a formal protest |
20th March |
Thatcher sends Endurance and 24 Royal Marines
from Stanley to South Georgia |
23rd March |
Bahia Buen Suceso and 30 workmen sail from
Leith |
24th March |
Endurance arrives at Grytviken but earlier
instructions to remove Argentine workmen are rescinded;
Argentine naval vessel Bahia Paraiso puts a large quantity of
stores ashore at Leith together with a marine detachment under the command of Captain Alfredo Astiz |
26th March |
Argentine government says it will give all necessary
protection to the workmen on South Georgia;
British intelligence source in Buenos Aires warns that an Argentine
invasion of the Islands is imminent but the British government
dismisses the warning;
Argentine navy set out on scheduled manoeuvres with the Uruguyan
fleet;
Argentine junta brings forward its invasion plans ('Operation
Rosario') from a national holiday on 25 May or July 9 because of the South Georgia crisis and the worsening economic
turmoil and civil unrest;
British Ministry of Defence advises the government against a
military response |
27th March |
Argentine missile boats Drummond and Granville
sail south to join Bahia Paraiso |
28th March |
Argentina restates its claim to the Falkland Islands
and Dependencies, tells Britain there will be no negotiations
on South Georgia, cancels leave for military and diplomatic
personnel, sends stores and equipment to the naval bases of Puerto
Belgrano and Comodoro Rivadavia, and being overflights of Stanley;
5 Argentine warships are sighted near South Georgia;
Britain begins contingency planning for the sending of a task force
to the Islands;
Carrington asks US Secretary of State
Alexander Haig to intercede with the junta in an attempt to avoid
military action |
29th March |
Joint Intelligence Committee reports an invasion seems
imminent
Thatcher orders 3 nuclear submarines south to the
Islands;
British submarine Spartan sails south to the Islands from
Gibraltar;
Royal Fleet Auxiliary Fort Austin sails south to provide
support for Endurance;
New Royal Marine detachment arrive Stanley aboard research ship John
Biscoe |
30th March |
Daily Telegraph reports that a nuclear
submarine is sailing south;
Former Prime Minister James Callaghan informs Parliament that in
1977 in response to Argentine pressure Britain secretly sent a
nuclear submarine and two warships to the South Atlantic;
Carrington says a diplomatic solution is being pursued |
31st March |
Junta takes final decision to invade the Islands on 2
April;
Violent anti-government riots occur across Argentina;
British intelligence source warns that the Argentine fleet is at sea heading
towards the Islands;
Chief of Navy Staff Admiral Sir Henry Leach advises a crisis meeting
headed by Thatcher that Britain could and should send a task force
if the islands are invaded;
Governor Rex Hunt is informed Britain believes Argentina is planning
a submarine landing on the Islands as a means of increasing pressure
over South Georgia;
Britain's US ambassador Sir Nicholas Henderson visits Haig in
Washington and persuades him to take matters seriously;
Thatcher telegraphs American President Ronald Reagan asking him to
warn the Argentines off;
Royal Marines commander Brigadier Julian Thompson is alerted to the
crisis |
1st April |
British submarine Splendid sails from Faslane;
UN Security Council meets at Britain's request and calls for
restraint and avoidance of force;
Reagan warns Argentine junta leader General Galtieri not to take
military action;
Governor Hunt is informed at 3.30pm FI time that Britain now believes a full invasion is
planned and summons an immediate meeting of government heads of
department;
At 7.15pm FI time Governor Hunt in a radio broadcast warns Islanders of the
impending invasion and mobilises the Royal Marines and Falkland
Islands Defence Force;
Admiral Leach orders ships on exercise in the Mediterranean to prepare to sail south |
2nd April |
At midnight Argentina puts Operation Rosario into
action by bringing ships into position off the Islands;
Governor Hunt advises Islanders that Galtieri has rejected
Reagan's intervention, and declares a State of Emergency at 3.25am;
Argentine special forces land at Mullet Creek at 4.30am, more troops
land at York Bay at 5.30am, and by 6am are engaged in battle with
the Royal Marines - 3 Argentines are killed;
The main Argentine landing force begins disembarking at Stanley at
8am, by which time the airstrip is cleared and the 25th Regiment
flies in;
Governor Hunt orders the surrender at 9.15am - by now the whole town
other than Government House is under Argentine control;
Galtieri hails the "recovery" of the Malvinas, saying
Argentina had been left no option other than military action, while
Carrington tells Parliament "Port Stanley is now occupied by
Argentine military forces";
During the afternoon Governor Hunt (dressed in full regalia), other
Foreign Office officials and the captured Royal Marines are forcibly
evacuated by the Argentines to Montevideo;
Brigadier General Mario Menendez is appointed governor of 'Islas
Malvinas' and Dependenciesz;
Stanley renamed 'Puerto Argentino';
Argentines radio news of the surrender around Grytviken at 10.30am;
Royal Marines on South Georgia attack the Argentine forces at
12.30pm but after inflicting heavy damage surrender to a
far-superior force at 2.30pm;
Britain orders Argentine diplomats out of the country;
Bank of England freezes Argentine assets in Britain;
Emergency cabinet meeting approves the sending of the task force to liberate
the Islands;
MPs are recalled for a special Saturday sitting of the House of
Commons (first since Suez);
9 navy ships on exercise in the Mediterranean sail south;
Britain's UN ambassador Sir Anthony Parsons puts a draft resolution
to the Security Council condemning the hostilities and demanding
immediate Argentine withdrawal from the Islands |
3rd April |
UN Security Council passes Resolution 502 by 10 votes
to 1 (with 4 abstentions) demanding immediate Argentine
withdrawal from the Islands - Argentina refuses to comply;
Labour party leader Michael Foot backs the decision to send the task
force;
Emergency session of House of Commons endorses the decision to send
the task force but attacks the British Government for not foreseeing
the Argentine attack;
The first RAF elements of the task force deploy to Ascension Island;
Argentina reinforces its troops on South Georgia and South Sandwich
Islands;
52 schoolchildren are evacuated from Stanley in a convoy of 18
landrovers |
4th April |
British submarine Conqueror sails from Faslane;
Argentines occupy Goose Green and Darwin;
Lighthousekeeper and radio ham Reg Silvey makes radio contact with
the UK and continues clandestine broadcasts throughout the
occupation |
5th April |
Aircraft carriers Hermes and Invincible
sail from Portsmouth with other ships;
Carrington resigns and is replaced as Foreign Secretary by Francis
Pym;
Junior Foreign Office Ministers Richard Luce and Humphrey Atkins
resign |
7th April |
Reagan approves Haig peace mission;
British Government announces it will impose a 200-mile exclusion
zone around the Islands on 26 April;
Liner Canberra is requisitioned at Southampton upon her
return from a world cruise;
Britain freezes $1.4 billion in Argentine assets held in British
banks |
8th April |
Haig and his team arrive in London |
9th April |
3 Commando Brigade sail from Southampton aboard Canberra;
European Economic Community approve economic sanctions against
Argentina (Ireland and Italy veto) |
10th April |
Haig arrives in Buenos Aires;
EEC sanctions against Argentina come into effect (against wishes of
Italy and Ireland) |
12th April |
200 mile maritime exclusion zone around the Islands
declared by Britain to prevent Argentine reinforcements and supplies
reaching the Islands from the mainland;
British submarine Spartan arrives on station off Stanley;
Haig returns to London |
14th April |
Argentine fleet leaves Puerto Belgrano;
Haig returns to Washington to brief Reagan;
Squadron of ships carrying Royal Marines and special forces sent to
retake South Georgia rendezvous with Endurance;
Expatriate Chief Secretary Dick Baker is deported by
the Argentines |
15th April |
British destroyer group takes up holding position in
mid-Atlantic;
Haig returns to Buenos Aires |
17th April |
Admiral Sir John Fieldhouse chairs conference at
Ascension Island with Admiral Sandy Woodward and 3 Commando Brigade
which sets out detailed plans for the retaking of the Islands by
force;
The main task force sails south from Ascension Island;
Haig presents Argentine junta with 5-point plan;
Argentine service councils debate Haig's proposals |
18th April |
Argentine aircraft carrier Veinticinco de Mayo
returns to port with engine trouble |
19th April |
Argentina rejects Haig's plan unless Britain agrees to
transfer sovereignty by 31 December 1982 and allow Argentine
nationals to settle in the Islands;
EEC foreign ministers declare support for Britain |
20th April |
British War Cabinet orders repossession of Islands;
Canberra arrives at Ascension Island |
21st April |
South Georgia operation begins with failed landing by
SAS on Fortuna Glacier |
22nd April |
Pym visits Washington with the British response to Haig's
proposals;
Britain warns all British nationals to leave Argentina;
British task force arrives in Falklands waters;
Galtieri visits Islands;
Argentine navy commandeers trawler Narwhal for intelligence
purposes |
23rd April |
Britain warns Argentina that any military or civilian
ship or aircraft representing a threat to the task force will be destroyed |
24th April |
Admiral Woodward's task group rendezvous with
mid-Atlantic destroyers |
25th April |
South Georgia recaptured by Royal Marines - Thatcher
tells Britain to "rejoice";
Argentine submarine Santa Fe is beached on South Georgia
after British attack |
26th April |
'Defence area' declared around British fleet;
Thatcher declares time for diplomacy is running out;
Argentines occupy Port Howard |
27th April |
Chiefs of staff present San Carlos landing proposals
(Operation Sutton) to War cabinet;
Haig's 'final package' is sent to London and Buenos Aires;
14 Stanley residents regarded by the Argentines as potential
troublemakers are send to Fox Bay East |
28th April |
Organisation of American States supports Argentina's
sovereignty claim but calls for peaceful negotiations |
29th April |
Task force arrives at exclusion zone;
Vulcan bombers arrive at Ascension Island;
Argentina rejects Haig proposals |
30th April |
Maritime exclusion zone is declared a total exclusion
zone, applicable to all ships and aircraft supporting the Argentine
occupation of the Islands;
General Sir Jeremy Moore flies to Ascension for conference with
Brigadier Thompson;
Reagan terminates Haig's peace mission, declares US support for Britain,
imposes economic sanctions on Argentina, and offers Britain materiel
and other aid |
1st May |
Initial SAS and SBS landings on the Islands;
First Vulcan bomber raid on Stanley airport;
Sea harrier aircraft attack Stanley airport and Goose Green;
3 Argentine aircraft are shot down;
Naval bombardment of Stanley begins;
114 inhabitants of Goose Green are imprisoned in the settlement's
Recreation Club for the next 4 weeks;
14 Stanley residents previously sent to Fox Bay East are placed
under house arrest;
Pym returns to Washington |
2nd May |
UN and Peru both try to initiate peace talks;
Pym meets UN Secretary General Perez de Cuellar in New York;
Peruvian President Belaunde Terry presents a peace proposal to
Galtieri who gives preliminary acceptance with some modifications;
General Belgrano sunk 30 miles outside exclusion zone by submarine Conqueror
on orders of War Cabinet who claim self-defence - 368 Argentines
die |
3rd May |
British forces sink one Argentine patrol boat and
seriously damage another;
Argentine navy vessels are recalled to shallow waters off Argentine
coastline out of reach of submarines;
Galtieri rejects Peruvian peace plan, citing General Belgrano |
4th May |
British destroyer Sheffield hit by an exocet
missile, and subsequently sinks - 20 die;
First British sea harrier piloted by Lt Nick Taylor is shot down
over Goose Green;
British forces begin bombarding Argentine positions around Stanley |
5th May |
Emergency meeting of full British cabinet approves
Peruvian peace plan |
6th May |
Two British sea harriers crash in fog;
Argentine junta rejects Peruvian peace plan;
Convoy including Canberra heads south from Ascension Island |
7th May |
Britain extends total exclusion zone to 12 miles off
Argentine coast;
de Cuellar discusses peace proposals in New York with British and
Argentine delegations |
8th May |
War cabinet dispatches landing force south
from Ascension Island;
Argentina rejects Peru's peace proposals |
9th May |
Final plans drawn up for San Carlos landing site;
Argentine trawler Narwhal bombed by sea harriers, and
subsequently sinks;
Argentine positions face heavy bombardment from sea and air, especially around
Stanley |
10th May |
Task Force briefed about San Carlos landing plans;
Argentine supply ship Islas de los Estados sunk by Alacrity
in Falkland Sound;
Argentina declares the entire South Atlantic a war zone |
11th May |
Haig sends his deputy General Vernon Walters to Buenos
Aires |
12th May |
QE2 leaves Southampton with 5 Infantry Brigade
comprising Scots Guards, Welsh Guards and Gurkhas
Argentine junta concedes that sovereignty of the Islands isn't a
precondition to the UN peace plan |
14th May |
Britain's ambassadors to the US and the UN summoned back to London;
Thatcher warns Britain that a peaceful settlement may not be
possible;
SAS attack the Argentine base on Pebble Island and
destroy supplies and 11 pucara aircraft;
3 Argentine skyhawk aircraft are shot down by sea harriers |
16th May |
Britain's UN ambassador Sir Anthony Parsons sent back
to New York with British peace proposals |
17th May |
British peace proposals transmitted to Argentina;
Helicopter from Invincible lands SAS team in Argentina but
they fail to destroy Argentine military aircraft at the Rio Grande
base |
18th May |
Landing force rendezvous with Admiral Woodward's task
group;
San Carlos landing plan put to full cabinet;
Argentine junta rejects British peace proposals |
19th May |
War cabinet gives Admiral Woodward the go ahead for
landing plan;
British sea king helicopter crashes with the loss of its crew and 19
Special Forces personnel |
20th May |
de Cuellar admits failure of UN peace talks;
Thatcher accuses Argentina of 'obduracy and delay, deception and bad
faith', tells Commons of collapse of peace process, and orders task force into battle;
RMS St. Helena requisitioned by the Task Force - 19 Saint
Helenian sailors volunteer to serve aboard alongside naval
personnel, and after the end of the War she stays in the Islands as
a minesweeper |
21st May |
San Carlos landings begin, codenamed Operation Sutton;
British frigate Ardent sunk in San Carlos Water by air attack
- 22 die;
Argonaut and Antrim hit by Argentine bombs which fail
to explode - 2 die;
2 British helicopters and 15 Argentine aircraft are shot down;
Open debate commences at UN Security Council |
23rd May |
British frigate Antelope hit by Argentine bomb
which fails to explode - 1 crewman dies;
10 Argentine aircraft are shot down |
24th May |
Antelope explodes and sinks when a bomb
disposal officer attempts to defuse the bomb;
Landing craft Sir Galahad and Sir Lancelot
hit by Argentine bombs which fail to explode while Sir Bedivere
is damaged by a bomb exploding in water nearby;
7 Argentine aircraft are shot down |
25th May |
British destroyer Coventry sunk by air attack -
20 die;
British container ship Atlantic Conveyor is abandoned
with 3 vital chinook helicopters aboard after an exocet missile hit
sets the ship ablaze - 12 die;
8 Argentine aircraft are shot down;
SAS unit reconnoitre Mount Kent |
26th May |
War cabinet questions lack of movement out of
bridgehead at San Carlos;
London makes the retaking of Goose Green a priority;
2 Para set out for Goose Green;
UN Security Council Resolution 505 instructs de Cuellar to seek
negotiated settlement |
27th May |
45 Commando and 3 Para set out for Douglas and Teal Inlet;
SAS land in strength on Mount Kent;
Sea harriers attack Goose Green - one plane is shot down;
British forces furious when BBC World Service report 2 Para are
advancing on Darwin but Argentine commander believes this is
deliberate misinformation |
28th May |
2 Para launch attack early in the morning, and by
evening surround Goose Green - 17 British and 250 Argentines die;
Colonel H Jones is killed during the attack and subsequently awarded
Victoria Cross;
5 Infantry Brigade trans-ship from QE2 to Norland and Canberra
at South Georgia;
British shelling by air and sea of Stanley recommences and continues
for the next 16 days |
29th May |
Argentines surrender Goose Green, British take 1,400
prisoners, and the Islanders imprisoned at Goose Green by the
Argentines are released;
Organisation of American States condemns Britain's military action
and calls on the US to stop helping Britain - only the US, Chile,
Columbia and Trinidad & Tobago abstain |
30th May |
45 Commando take Douglas and 3 Para take Teal Inlet;
42 Commando advance on Mount Kent and Mount Challenger;
General Moore arrives at San Carlos;
Pope John Paul II preaches anti-war message in Coventry Cathedral |
31st May |
42 Commando take Mount Kent and Mount Challenger;
19 men from the Royal Marines Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre
capture Top Malo House after a firefight;
Reagan asks Thatcher not to inflict too serious a defeat on the
Argentines |
1st June |
5 Infantry Brigade begins disembarkation at San
Carlos;
War cabinet debate further peace proposals;
Britain repeats its ceasefire terms;
Updated Shackleton Report ordered |
2nd June |
2 Para reach Bluff Cove;
Argentine military envoys arrive in New York offering to surrender
to the UN |
3rd June |
Versailles summit opens;
Reagan's 5-point plan given to Britain |
4th June |
Britain and US veto Panamanian-Spanish immediate ceasefire resolution
in UN Security Council;
Spain criticises Britain's military action, becoming the only NATO
country not to support Britain
2 Para occupy the undefended Bluff Cove and Fitzroy |
5th June |
Scots Guards depart San Carlos at night on board Intrepid
heading for Fitzroy |
6th June |
Scots Guards land at Fitzroy in early morning;
Versailles summit supports British position on the conflict;
Welsh Guards depart San Carlos at night on board Fearless
heading for Fitzroy |
7th June |
A shortage of landing craft mean half the Welsh Guards
land at Fitzroy in early morning but the rest return to San Carlos,
which they leave again at night on board landing craft Sir
Galahad and Sir Tristram;
President Reagan pays official visit to Britain |
8th June |
Plymouth in Falkland Sound is hit by 4
Argentine bombs but none explode;
Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram are bombed
at Fitzroy while the Welsh Guards are waiting to disembark - 51 die
including 38 Welsh Guards and 55 are seriously wounded;
War cabinet asked not to reveal Fitzroy casualties;
Landing craft Foxtrot-4 sunk with British vehicles aboard;
3 Argentine skyhawks are shot down by sea harriers;
General Moore finalises battle plan for Stanley |
10th June |
Falklands Appeal launched under patronage of Lord
Shackleton;
Peru sends 10 mirage jets to Argentina to replenish losses |
11th June |
Battle for Stanley begins on Mount Longdon, Mount
Harriet and Two Sisters - 23 paras and 50 Argentines die;
Sergeant Ian McKay of 3 Para is killed on Mount Longdon and
subsequently awarded Victoria Cross;
3 Islanders killed during British naval bombardment of Stanley;
Pope John Paul II visits Argentina and denounces all wars as
'unjust' |
12th June |
3 Para take Mount Longdon - another 6 paras and 50 Argentines die,
including Sergeant Ian John McKay who is awarded a posthumous
Victoria Cross;
42 Commando take Mount Harriet and 45
Commando take Two Sisters;
British destroyer Glamorgan badly damaged by land-launched exocet
missile - 13 die;
5 Infantry Brigade moves into position |
13th June |
Battle for Tumbledown, Wireless Ridge and Mount
William - 15 Britons and 40 Argentines die |
14th June |
By daylight Argentine troops are fleeing in disarray, by mid-morning
white flags are flying in Stanley, and by noon the British have marched to the outskirts of
Stanley;
Thatcher informs the Commons at 10.15pm UK time that the Argentines have
surrendered;
General Mario Menendez surrenders to Major General Jeremy Moore at 9pm FI time;
9,800 Argentine troops put down their arms |
15th June |
British officers are flown by helicopter to the
outlying settlements to accept the surrender of local Argentine
commanders;
Stanley's historic Globe Store is destroyed by an Argentine arsonist;
Canberra embarks 1,200 Argentine POWs at San Carlos |
16th June |
Canberra embarks a further 1,850 Argentine POWs
in Port William outside Stanley;
Peter Blaker, Defence Minister of State, announces that the official
count of British military and civilian war dead is 255, with
approximately 300 wounded |
17th June |
Galtieri resigns |
18th June |
Canberra sails from Port William with 3,046
Argentine POWs aboard once Argentina guarantees her safe passage |
19th June |
Canberra offloads the POWs at Puerto Madryn,
Argentina;
Britain announces that 11,845 Argentines were captured |
20th June |
British forces land on Southern Thule (South Sandwich
Islands) - Argentines
surrender without a fight;
Britain formally declares an end to hostilities;
200 mile exclusion zone established around the Islands during the
war is replaced by a Falkland Islands Protection Zone of 150 miles;
British newspaper 'The Sunday Times' publishes an unsubstantiated
story that Argentina had been holding 7 members of the British
Secret Air Service since 19 May, captured whilst providing
intelligence information on Argentine Air Force plane departures to
the British fleet;
EEC lifts economic sanctions against Argentina |
22nd June |
Retired Army General Reynaldo Bignone replaces
Galtieri as President of Argentina;
Argentine army assumes full power, the Navy and Air Force
withdrawing from the Junta |
24rd June |
Thatcher visits Reagan in Washington |
25th June |
Governor Rex Hunt returns to Stanley as Civil
Commsisioner;
Canberra departs Falklands waters with 40, 42 and 45 Commando
on board |
26th June |
Service of Thanksgiving and Remembrance at St. Paul's
Cathedral in London |
28th June |
Argentina releases 3 British journalists imprisoned on
spying charges at the beginning of the War |
2nd July |
Argentine war toll set at 645 dead and missing;
Rear Admiral John (Sandy) Woodward replaced by Rear Admiral Derek
Roy Reffell as Commander of the British naval task force, and Major
General Jeremy Moore replaced by Major General David Thorne as
Commander of the British ground forces |
6th July |
Thatcher appoints an official commission headed by
Lord Franks to examine the causes of Britain's failure to prevent
Argentine capture of the Islands |
7th July |
EEC agrees to provide financial aid to the Islands |
8th July |
Argentina releases its only acknowledged British
prisoner of war, an airman shot down near Stanley in May;
Thatcher announces British government will repatriate bodies of dead
British servicemen buried in the Falklands for reburial in Britain
if requested by next-of-kin |
11th July |
Canberra arrives home at Southampton with 40,
42 and 45 Commando;
Britain drops its condition that Argentina formally acknowledge the
end of hostilities before repatriating the remaining prisoners of
war |
12th July |
USA ends trade sanctions against Argentina |
14th July |
Final 593 Argentine prisoners of war (mostly officers
and technicians) repatriated |
17th July |
Britain admits to falsifying press releases during the
war to mislead Argentina |
22nd July |
Britain lifts the Exclusion Zone around the Islands |
26th July |
Brigadier General Mario Menendez dismissed from
Argentine army |
24th August |
RMS St. Helena arrives home in St. Helena |
12 October |
Victory Parade in London |
4 November |
UN General Assembly passes a resolution calling for a
peaceful solution to the sovereignty dispute |
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