Margaret Thatcher lobbied then-US President Ronald Reagan to prevent Argentina from rearming just half a decade after the Falklands War, newly declassified US documents reveal.After civilian rule returned to Argentina in 1983 under President Raul Alfonsin, Reagan's government put forward the idea to lift the ban on selling US arms to the South American nation - having embargoed the country in 1977 when the military junta took power.Declassified US State Department records now show that Thatcher pressured Washington to delay plans to allow large quantities of arms to once again be sold to Argentina.
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