"The Malvinas are Argentine," said Vice President Scioli…

Here we go again….

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina marked the 25th anniversary of its failed attempt to regain the Falkland Islands by force on Monday and reasserted claims to the South Atlantic archipelago.

“Neither war nor the passage of time changes reality: The Malvinas are Argentine,” said Vice President Daniel Scioli, using the islands’ Argentine name, as 5,000 people, many of them veterans of the 1982 war with Britain, applauded.

“We call upon the United Kingdom to heed international calls and resume negotiations,” Scioli said during the ceremony in Argentina’s southernmost city of Ushuaia — 440 miles (710 kilometers) southwest of the islands.

He said Argentina hopes to regain the islands though peaceful, diplomatic channels.

The 73-day war claimed 649 Argentine lives and 258 on the British side. Argentina surrendered on June 14, 1982.

But Argentines universally call the islands their own, insisting the British seized them by force in January 1833.

Scioli said the government’s decision last week to scrap a 1995 accord with Britain on oil exploration in the South Atlantic was part of its insistence on first resolving the issue of sovereignty.”