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Argentina's Falklands' claim and rejection of oil activities reiterated at the 'new' Mercosur summit
Mercosur full and associate members ended their Paraguay summit signing six joint statements, one of which in support of Argentina's sovereignty claim over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands and rejecting 'non authorized' hydrocarbons exploration in the Argentine continental shelf. This is the first regional document related to the Falkland Islands Argentine claim since Mauricio Macri took office last 10 December. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesSeriously that is just laughable so nobody in SA can do anything in their EEZ unless approved by Arg's. Is that really what they are saying.
Dec 23rd, 2015 - 08:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0South America is one big Spanish Portuguese colony.
Dec 23rd, 2015 - 08:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0You want the Falklands? Come take them cowards
'Argentina's Falklands' claim and rejection of oil activities reiterated at the 'new' Mercosur summit'
Dec 23rd, 2015 - 09:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0Ha ha ha. Is there no end to the fantasy claim? Damn that usurpation. Ha ha ha
https://www.academia.edu/17799157/Falklands_-_Some_Relevant_International_Law
No change in tactics or approach. We are kidding ourselves to think otherwise. Same stage, same act, different actors.
Dec 23rd, 2015 - 10:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0The picture needs to be entitled “We are the rulers of continental La-La Land: you must obey us, you must obey us” goes on for three hours in true Private Eye style.
Dec 23rd, 2015 - 11:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0Not a one good leader in the line up. Macri's blown his credibility with reasonable people.
@4. Quite amusing in a way. The Falklands aren't a member of the UN. How does the UN get to make “rules” that apply to a non-member? Oil exploration is not being conducted by the UK, but by the Falklands. And argie domestic law doesn't apply in the Islands or the EEZ. The UK is in no position to tell the self-governing Falklands what to do.
Dec 23rd, 2015 - 11:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0Macri's already started failing!
How many decades has the Islanders oil exploration been “rejected” and what difference has it ever made?
Dec 23rd, 2015 - 12:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Different leader, same shit!
Dec 23rd, 2015 - 12:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Relax you squatters.
Dec 23rd, 2015 - 12:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Macri is just going all with this to keep the peace at home with all the Kampora negros.
Much easier to have 3000 Islanders pissed at him than 3 Million negro's blocking the rutas here.
Called it last week.
Dec 23rd, 2015 - 01:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Kelpers were overly optimistic in there assessment of Macaroni.
rottingroadkillians are rottingroadkillians - left or right.
Meaningless impact on exploration at $30.
Anyone that references a UN resolution as a real world issue is clueless.
Kelpers should will get sold out if the worst of labor comes to power in the UK
'non authorized'
Dec 23rd, 2015 - 01:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And who should,
like I said before,
cut of diplomatic cooperation with Argentina, and end trade and money,
until THEY change and grow up,
if not sod em all.
@ 6 & 9,
Dec 23rd, 2015 - 02:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Totally agree.
A bit too early to loose hope for the new president. He is stuck with many people in his cabinet and on the streets who think differently than him, he has to give them space too. Therefore we are dealing with a true elect and not with a dictator. Lets sit back and wait a bit.
As oom Paul Kruger said: “Alles sal reg kom”.
I am still confident he is going to make big changes for the good.
“the 'non authorized' exploration in the Argentine continental shelf undertaken by the UK, 'in violation of international law and Argentine domestic legislation'.”
Dec 23rd, 2015 - 02:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In violation of imaginary international law created in Argentine fairy land and how does Argentine domestic legislation affect somewhere they don't govern?
Go to the ICJ!
They moan , they cry ,
Dec 23rd, 2015 - 07:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0but they wont go to the ICJ, WHY ?
It's a good job that the hydrocarbons exploration in Falklands waters are not being conducted on the South American continental shelf, then, isn't it? Otherwise we'd all be quaking in our boots.
Dec 23rd, 2015 - 07:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's also a shame that Macri has started down this path, he'd be better off concentrating his efforts in putting together a better, more socially developed country.
Oh well.
#6: There is not a nation called falklands. The population living in Malvinas are british citizens, and the uk is a member of the UN. Ergo there is UN citizens living in the Islands but not a nation Called Falklands with no UN membership.
Dec 24th, 2015 - 12:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0To be more precisely, there is a colony, a non self-governing territory administered by the uk, claimed by Argentina.
So, if Argentina had these islands, that wouldn't be a “colony”.
Dec 24th, 2015 - 03:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Is that right?
What has that to do with the price of beans?
Dec 24th, 2015 - 04:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0Philippe
They can “reiterate”, “reaffirm” & “ratify” exactly what they like.
Dec 24th, 2015 - 12:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0lt won't make a blind bit of notice.
Beat me to it, scarfo.
Although l was going to say, “Same Shit, Different Day”
@16 Liberato,
There is not a nation called argentina.
The population there are squatters living on murdered lndian's land.
Or perhaps you could be described as a Spanish colony in rebellion.
@16
Dec 24th, 2015 - 01:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“To be more precisely, there is a colony, a non self-governing territory administered by the uk, claimed by Argentina.”
Argentina being the country that wants to run the Falklands t like a colony, because they are not interested in living there, and none of you know anything about the people, geology flora and fauna geography or history about the islands, it's just a piece of land to you.
Therefore you want to turn it into a colony it as you want to copy what the British used to do
This is a serious question, how come the Falklands don't declare independence then ask the UK to become a protectorate like Puerto Rico or Guam?
Dec 24th, 2015 - 01:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Seems like that would solve the Rg nonsensical screeching....
@16. One of you SoAm loons constantly brings up 700,000 (approx) British ex-pats residing in spain. UN “citizens” living in spain. Although it's amazingly difficult to become a “citizen” of an inter-governmental organisation. So 1.5% of spain belongs to the UN. I expect it can decide its own name. Britainunspain? An area that makes its own laws. Has its own foreign policy. Would Gibraltar qualify? You really are incredibly fatuous. There's no such thing as a “UN citizen”. As a thought, what percentage of the argie population is “British”. Does that make argieland a “British” colony? After all, there are over 400,000 of the population with British ancestry.
Dec 27th, 2015 - 02:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@21. Think it through. As a British Overseas Territory, a lot of things come to the Islands ready-made. Then imagine some coward like Corbyn getting into power. Corbyn would like to give the Islands to argieland. Corbyn isn't even willing to do what might be necessary to defend the UK. Not as easy to give away a BOT as it might be to give away a protectorate. Would the US defend Puerto Rico or Guam no matter what? Didn't Japan take Guam? How about Hawaii? Take account of differences between British and US law.
In the past, I've thought much as you. But, as time passes, I realise the importance of people with, mostly, British ethnicity, given British nationality, residing on British territory with incontrovertible title.
The UK will return the Malvinas within the next 25 years.
Dec 28th, 2015 - 07:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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