Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said she asked U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to assist in facilitating talks with the U.K. over the Falkland Islands.

Fernandez made the comments today in Buenos Aires during a meeting with Clinton. Argentina, which claims sovereignty over the islands that U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher went to war to defend in 1982, summoned U.K. embassy officials on Feb. 2 to protest the imminent start of drilling by Falkland Oil & Gas Ltd.

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