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Barack Obama makes Falklands gaffe by calling Malvinas the Maldives

By Jonathan Gilbert in Buenos Aires 16 Apr 2012
telegraph.co.uk


President Obama erred during a speech at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, when attempting to call the disputed archipelago by its Spanish name.

Instead of saying Malvinas, however, Mr Obama referred to the islands as the Maldives, a group of 26 atolls off that lie off the South coast of India.


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