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Macri praises the 'State policy' and all those who contributed to design “the new map of Argentina”
The new map of Argentina, implemented by the UN resolution that extends the country's continental shelf is an example of “State policy”, since it's a claim that has been elaborated in international forums for over twenty years under different governments, underlined president Mauricio Macri, following the official announcement on Tuesday. Read full article
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Mar 29th, 2016 - 03:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0UN Press release 28 March =
At the plenary level, the Commission adopted, without a vote, two sets of recommendations, namely the recommendations in respect to the submission made by Argentina, and the recommendations in respect to the submission made by Iceland in respect of the Ægir Basin area and in the western and southern parts of Reykjanes Ridge. With regard to the recommendations in respect of the submission made by Argentina, it is recalled that, previously, the Commission had already decided that it was not in a position to consider and qualify those parts of the submission that were subject to dispute and those parts that were related to the continental shelf appurtenant to Antarctica (see CLCS/64, paras. 76 and 77 and CLCS/76 para. 57)
Videla died sitting on the WC...
Mar 29th, 2016 - 07:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0:)
This is a “Test Case”, and Argentina was the first in extending her territorial waters to 350 miles of Continental Shelf, and in this respect well done and congratulations.
Mar 29th, 2016 - 10:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0What is so naughty and wrong is to push the indoctrination button in the minds of the Argentines by publishing a map hinting that the Commission in any way ruled, granted or even favoured Argentina's claim to the Falklands, Falklands territorial waters, or those of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands..
The worst transgression of all the Argentine propaganda with their out of place map is to claim that it gives them territorial waters in Antarctica! No nation can claim sovereignty there and Argentina knows this perfectly well as a signatory of the Antarctic Treaty .. Article IV..
So here we have a typical case of Argentina's Government pressing the indoctrination button again compelling all the Argentines go jumping around waving flags.. but was it deliberate .. perhaps to bury bad news.. if so a first for Macri?
The solution is simple: the British who have property in the MALVINAS Islands must keep their properties and if they want to win the Argentina besides the British citizenship. Half of oil will be for kelpers, half for the 2 nations sharing government and assured friendship forever. Let's close the wounds and win a friendship. Let's play rugby and soccer.
Mar 29th, 2016 - 11:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0Dream on Claudio
Mar 29th, 2016 - 12:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Unfortunately for Argentina the invasion in 1982 followed by continuous intimidation afterwards has damaged relations between the Islanders and Argentina possibly permanently Claudio. Britains sovereignty cannot be challenged and things wont change until Argentina changes, ceases the intimidation and builds a friendly relationship with the Islanders and Britain over a long period of time.
Mar 29th, 2016 - 02:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”UN acknowledgement of the existence of a dispute regarding Malvinas Islands sovereignty”.
Mar 29th, 2016 - 03:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't think so - this mob is not even a UN Commission just a sub-committe of a sub-committe and has only made a 'recommendation' about continental shelf borders and has no power to do otherwise - so not a UN acknowledgment of anything.
You have to be one helluva an arrogant country to include your continental shelf on maps as part of your territory - who says Argentina doesn't have imperial ambitions.
Time for a counter claim...
Mar 29th, 2016 - 04:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Plus, withdrawal of any international development aid to lying Argentina.
Apparently Britain or the Falkland's were never consulted asked or informed,
Mar 29th, 2016 - 07:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0so they say,
Some say, time for a counter claim,
perhaps the lion could roar , show its teeth and Demand this goes to the ICJ
then again David's in charge so forget it.
I see the Argentine govt. got a colouring book and some blue pencils along with their Easter eggs.
Mar 29th, 2016 - 10:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Wow there is a lot of ignorance around about this topic. Everyone listened to the Argentinean government and actually ignored everything else.
Mar 30th, 2016 - 09:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0On 21 April 2009 Argentina made a submission to the CLCS and the UK made one on 11 May 2009.
Both these submissions pretty much cover the same thing. Namely the extension of sovereignty to the continental shelf past the 200nm limit currently demarcated.
On 5 September 2012, the CLCS created a subcommission to consider Argentina's position and it has. However it also restricted the consideration by saying it would “...not to consider and qualify those parts of the submission that are subject to dispute and not to consider and qualify the part of the submission that relates to the continental shelf appurtenant to Antarctica.”
Their conclusions and findings do not suddenly and automatically cancel out the submission made by the UK on 11 May 2009. This submission still needs to be considered.
Great resource with all the information:
www.un.org/depts/los/clcs_new/commission_submissions.htm
Please take the time to read the submissions and decisions.
And Durham Uni have a great graphic here that will help to explain the competing claims very easily.
www.dur.ac.uk/resources/ibru/south_atlantic_maritime_claims.pdf
@4 Claudio
Mar 30th, 2016 - 12:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I've a better idea.
You drop your claim that is so farcical that you won't take it to the ICJ.
The Falkland Islanders get to keep the country they were born in along with all it's resources-you seem to forget that the UK does not have the resources around their Islands, the Islanders keep those.
Because they manage their economy properly, the Islanders always run a financial surplus.
If Argentina became friends with the Islanders then the Argentines would get £millions for supplies, labour and services that would increase employment in Argentina and make Argentina richer.
At the moment, Chile and the UK gets richer for supplying the Islands and many Chileans get more money working in the Falklands than they would in Chile- so the money in the Falklands could be benefiting Argentines.
If you think Argentina should share the Falklands, then how about sharing the Santa Cruz district which was first settled (apart from the Amerindians), by British and Falkland Islander farmers in the 19th century before any of you lot ventured south from sunny B.A.?
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
Mar 30th, 2016 - 12:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_on_the_Law_of_the_Sea
a list on this page of other categories,
independent or sovereign islands are not mentioned,
the UN cannot ever give one nation rights over someone else's territory full stop,
so the argy claim will thus fail.
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