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Milei prepares bill to toughen sanctions on companies operating in the Falklands
Argentine President Javier Milei is preparing legislation this week to toughen sanctions against companies operating in the Falklands, a move analysts say could raise tensions with Britain beyond the oil sector. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesTime to toughen sanctions on Argentina...
Sep 15th, 2026 - 02:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0Stop them from visiting the islands,
Sep 15th, 2026 - 12:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Law 26,659, which already bars unauthorized hydrocarbon activity on the disputed continental shelf”
Sep 16th, 2026 - 03:56 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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