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Milei orders arbitration proceedings against the UK over the Sea Lion project
Argentine President Javier Milei on Monday instructed the foreign ministry and the government's legal teams to launch international arbitration proceedings against the United Kingdom over the development of the Sea Lion oil project in the basin north of the Falklands, and gave London two weeks to halt the activity before Argentina turns to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesA country that crates a law stating that a territory and its surrounding territorial waters belong to it they clearly do not cannot be treated seriously in the modern world. Argentina is Narnia.
Sep 29th, 2026 - 09:13 am - Link - Report abuse +1“orders arbitration” - dumba$$, doesn't even knowwhat arbitration means.
Sep 29th, 2026 - 01:14 pm - Link - Report abuse +2“Javier Milei ... instructed the foreign ministry ... to launch international arbitration proceedings against the United Kingdom over the development of the Sea Lion oil project in the basin north of the Falklands, and gave London two weeks to halt the activity before Argentina turns to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.”
Sep 29th, 2026 - 01:25 pm - Link - Report abuse +2”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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It never ceases to amaze me how pathetic Argentinian politicians are, just like Zit and Malvi they live in an alternate universe not reality,
Sep 29th, 2026 - 01:34 pm - Link - Report abuse +2The effect of Argentina’s UNCLOS declaration not recognizing the Falklands territorial waters…Falklands – Territorial Waters (3 pgs): https://www.academia.edu/10574593/Falklands_Islands_Territorial_Waters
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