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LONDON, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Britain and Argentina have
signed an agreement to exhume and identify 123 Argentine soldiers buried on the Falkland Islands following mediation by the International Committee of the Red Cross, the British government said.
Graves at the Argentine memorial cemetery on East Falkland Island,
known in Spanish as Isla Soledad, carry the inscription: “Soldier only known to God”.
After meeting Argentine Deputy Foreign Minister Pedro Villagra
Delgado in London on Tuesday, foreign office junior minister Alan Duncan tweeted: “Pleased to sign ICRC mandate… to identify Argentine soldiers”.
The soldiers died in the 1982 war over the islands between Britain
and Argentina — a conflict which killed a total of 649 Argentine soldiers, 255 British soldiers and three islanders.
Red Cross personnel have already visited the site in the South
Atlantic and carried out a preliminary evaluation, Argentine officials said.