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British Ambassador to Argentina lodges formal protest against unauthorised landing on South Georgia on 20 December 1981 by Argentine scrap-metal merchant Constantino Davidoff
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Argentine Joint Armed Forces committee beings planning military invasion of Islands
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Junta's plans to capture Islands revealed in a series of articles in La Prensa newspaper
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Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in a private letter to a Conservative Party activist makes clear that she regards the Royal Marine presence in Stanley as sufficient to prevent an Argentine invasion
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Britain renews its formal protest at Davidoff's unauthorised landing
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Thatcher confirms retirement of HMS Endurance
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Deputy foreign minister Richard Luce begins sovereignty talks with his Argentine counterpart Ernesto Ros in New York
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British and Argentine deputy foreign ministers issue a joint communique praising the 'cordial and positive spirit' of sovereignty discussions held in New York
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Argentine foreign minister rejects the communique and says that Argentina reserves the right to 'employ other means' if Britain keeps refusing to cede sovereignty
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MP Julian Amery asks if 'all necessary steps are in hand to ensure the protection of the Islands against unexpected attack' but receives an evasive reply
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