Argentine visit to Falklands agreed

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They want to inaugurate a monument to the fallen soldiers, the Government said.

It follows an agreement between President Cristina Fernandez and Prime Minister Gordon Brown that was reached at a summit in Chile in March, the Argentine foreign ministry said.

"It's a positive announcement that through dialogue and conversation we have brought about this act that is absolutely humanitarian," Ms Fernandez said.

Family members will travel to the islands, 300 miles east of the Argentine mainland, on October 3 and 9 to inaugurate the monument in Darwin cemetery.

Argentina has been pushing for permission from Britain since the monument was raised in 2004.

"We would have liked this to happen four or five years ago, but the important thing is that we have achieved this diplomatic agreement," said Ms Fernandez.

British control of the islands is still a sensitive topic in Argentina.

Argentina has claimed the Falklands since Britain first occupied them in 1833. Decades of tensions flared into a fully-fledged war in 1982, a 73-day conflict that took the lives of 649 Argentines and 258 Britons.