British Prime Minister David Cameron dismissed Thursday (January 3, 2013), a renewed call by Argentinian President Cristina Kirchner for Britain to return the disputed Falkland Islands.
Cameron said the 3,000 residents of the South Atlantic archipelago had a strong desire to remain British and would have a chance to express their views in a referendum on March 10 and 11.
In an open letter to the British PM, Kirchner said the islands were "forcibly stripped" from Argentina exactly 180 years ago, "in a blatant exercise of 19th-century colonialism".
