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Milei sets out the sovereignty bill he will send to Congress over the Falklands
Argentina's government was finalizing on Monday the content of the sovereignty bill on the Falklands it will send to Congress, at a meeting with its own lawmakers chaired by President Javier Milei. The executive has yet to decide whether it will submit one bill or two. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesDoes anyone else find the delusional Argentine politicians tedious. ?
Sep 14th, 2026 - 12:03 pm - Link - Report abuse +2''The core of the package is a reform of Law 26,659, passed in 2011 at the initiative of then deputy Fernando Solanas, which bans and penalizes hydrocarbon activity without Argentine authorization on the disputed continental shelf.''
Sep 14th, 2026 - 03:03 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Argentina considers all hydrocarbon exploration and production activities in the waters surrounding the islands illegal, viewing them as part of its continental shelf. Falklands – Geographic Proximity (1 pg): https://www.academia.edu/38561999/Falklands_-Geographical_Proximity
One of the many problems Argentina has is that continental shelves are nothing to do with national borders or sovereignty, in other words totally meaningless and irrelevant.
Sep 14th, 2026 - 03:15 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Somebody needs to give this clown a shave and a buzz cut...
Sep 16th, 2026 - 12:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Law 26,659, which already bars unauthorized hydrocarbon activity on the disputed continental shelf”
Sep 18th, 2026 - 03:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”Under the Palmas decision, three important rules for resolving island territorial disputes were decided:
Firstly, title based on contiguity has no standing in international law.
International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the North Sea continental shelf cases, in which Denmark and the Netherlands based their claim inter alia on the doctrine of proximity, i.e., that the part of the continental shelf closest to the part of the state in question falls automatically under that state's jurisdiction. In these cases the ICJ rejected any contiguity type of approach. As for continuity, it is argued, the 1958 Geneva Convention on the Continental Shelf and Contiguous Zone, Article 1, now contained in the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention, Article 76, does not support the view that coastal states have sovereignty over islands above the continental shelf. On the contary it laid down doctrine that islands had their own “continental shelves,” p.74
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