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Video: It takes two to tango

 

 
 Tango rivals Argentina and Uruguay settle row 
 

A dispute that has simmered for generations between Argentina and Uruguay over the origins of the tango looks likely to end.

Culture ministries in Buenos Aires and Montevideo have asked Unesco, the UN’s cultural agency, to grant the dance world heritage status and declare that it originated in both countries.

Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman reports it takes two to invent the tango.