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PRIME. w~ l~ tE 3 APRIL-1982
FAL -LAND ISLANDS
Tene prtTpe Imiriste-, i'lr $ dalcolm Feras sziid today
' IT condem. x the Arjentinian ' s invasion and occupation of the
Falkland Islanids in the strongest pos~ sble terms.
This use of armed force9 against a smril anid peaceful territory is
a grotesque remnder of an era which we had all hoped had reced
into t-he paist.
I~ t is an a; tCiort ch care-9 nothi-ng for-Ithe pr-inciple of: st-lfdetermnination,
ard is eO,) ntemptUuu of the2 Cbartor of the United
tations whieh ! ond4:-) ns coercion and the jasre of force a ma ans of
settling international disputes.-
' The Situation is already a rnos-t dangeroun one, and I call upon
teArgentiniaq G.: vrexnnven-to consider r~ tcarefully the poaible
consenuences of its action, and to wihrae at once its armed
dorCes Tfrorn the territory they have ocotpied.
24ir Prase r Said th-ht he fully supported -the British Government in
t!-e situatioz, in i. Thich it had been ~. vd
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