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Argentina announces the construction of labs in Antarctica to reaffirm science and sovereignty
Argentina will create “Antarctic Multidisciplinary Laboratories” to further promote research in the country's bases in the white continent, in the framework of the program “Building Science”. The program is sponsored by the ministries of Foreign Affairs; Science, Technology and Innovation, and Defense, and has specific funds earmarked. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“In foreign policy we are reaffirming our commitment to science and technology in the zone, which are definitively tools of prestige and sovereignty”, added the foreign minister.”
Aug 11th, 2022 - 11:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0“The UK first staked claim to the British Antarctic Territory in 1908.”
https ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_claims_in_Antarctica
“On 8 November 1942 Argentina laid claim to Antarctic land”
https ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_Antarctica
“Who is first in point of time is stronger in right” qui prior est tempore potior est jure
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1908&context=nlr
The strength of British imperialism is not exactly the Laws!
Aug 12th, 2022 - 03:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“British imperialism is not exactly the Laws!”
Aug 12th, 2022 - 04:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What about “Who is first in point of time is stronger in right” do you have difficulty in accepting a credo, that stems from Roman times.
It must be satisfying to the British, that if push comes to shove, the right is on their side completely.
South Africa is a good example of the English contradiction. Do not you think?
Aug 12th, 2022 - 04:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Lose the argument, then change horses. Get lost loser
Aug 12th, 2022 - 05:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0My argument does not change with geography. Or does England change the Law according to “Local Legend”?
Aug 12th, 2022 - 06:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS-4HlLFeE0
” My argument does not change with geography.”
Aug 12th, 2022 - 07:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Neither does mine, it stays on the straight and narrows of international laws.
The UK which has been part and parcel of more nations achieving self -determination.
Can safely rely on UN General Assembly Resolution 2649
(November 30, 1970)
4. Considers that the acquisition and retention of territory in contravention of the right of the people of that territory to self-determination is inadmissible and a gross violation of the Charter;
5. Condemns those Governments that deny the right to self-determination of peoples recognized as being entitled to it,”
Further rely on the judgement of the International Court of Justice.
“ICJ and Self-Determination
...opinion on Kosovo's declaration ...
” The right of self-determination, which the ICJ found to be jus cogens in the East Timor case, is a right of all peoples, not only of those in a colonial context. ... “
An attempt sponsored by Spain and Argentina to qualify the right to self-determination in cases where there was a territorial dispute was rejected by the UN General Assembly, which re-iterated the right to self-determination was a universal right
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination#Self-determination_versus_territorial_integrity
Even further still the unmistakable endorsement of:
UN General Assembly, the right to self-determination was a universal right.
Universal realization of the right of peoples to self-determination: resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
Access English: A_RES_54_155-EN - PDF
Summary
Reaffirms that the universal realization of the right of all peoples …, to self-determination is a fundamental condition for the effective guarantee and observance of human rights …; declares its firm opposition to acts of foreign military intervention, aggression and occupation, since these have resulted in the suppression of the right of peoples to self-determination and other human rights in certain parts of the world;
I don't understand the English language enough to challenge you.
Aug 12th, 2022 - 07:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I've lost!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxfJKBJA89A&list=RDGMEMQ1dJ7wXfLlqCjwV0xfSNbA&index=27
It’s not that complicated really, Argentina thinks it is strengthening its claim to what has long been someone else’s territory.
Aug 14th, 2022 - 11:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sr Carmona openly talks about Argentinian ‘settlements’ in Antarctica, forbidden under the Antarctic Treaty which Argentina has signed. No doubt to later argue a ‘permanent’ population, with the right to self-determination, so long as they want be Argentinian.
How ironic would that be?
Bi-continental Argentina can only become a reality, rather than a fiction, if the British disappear and there is not much chance of that happening.
Großargentinien is an imperialist/colonialist dream of Argentina, it is as simple as that.
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