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History Made: Argentine Foreign Minister and British representative for the Americas shake hands at OAS General Assembly in Cochabamba

  June 5, 2012

History Made: Argentine Foreign Minister and British representative for the Americas shake hands at OAS General Assembly in Cochabamba
Photo: OAS

In an historic act, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade, and Worship of Argentina, Héctor Timerman, today shook hands with the acting Director for the Americas of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Fiona Clouder, during the fourth plenary session of the forty-second regular session of the OAS General Assembly in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

The greeting between the diplomatic representatives of Argentina and the United Kingdom was seen as making history, coming as it did thirty years after the conflict between the two countries over the Malvinas Islands.

After setting out their respective positions on the dispute, the representatives of the two countries greeted each other, the first time that this had happened in an international forum.

For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.

Reference: FNE-9308