Falklands news: Why Islanders will always honour memory of UK veterans ‘Perfect memorial'

Falklands news: Why Islanders will always honour memory of UK veterans ‘Perfect memorial'

Express: AS the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War draws closer, a senior diplomat and native of the remote archipelago has said Islanders will never forget the sacrifice made by UK veterans to preserve their British sovereignty.

And Michael Betts, assistant representative of the Falkland Islands Government, based at Falkland House in Westminster, said the way the thriving British overseas territory is today serves as “the perfect war memorial” for those who lost their lives. Mr Betts, a sixth-generation Islander on his father’s side whose family settled in the Falklands in 1885, was speaking at an event at Falkland House to mark the launch of a new LATAM flight between Sao Paolo in Brazil and Mount Pleasant airport on East Falkland, which had the wider aim of boosting tourism.

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