MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
What could happen when Argentina's Sea Lion ultimatum to the UK expires
The two-week deadline Argentina gave the United Kingdom to halt the Sea Lion oil project in the North Falklands basin expires around October 12. Its expiry will not in itself suspend the project or establish a British breach of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, according to a legal analysis published by specialist site Diplomacy & Law. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules‘the claim and its grounds’.
Posted 16 hours ago - Link - Report abuse 0That will be interesting.
Somehow, I suspect Argentina will not want any legal scrutiny of it’s ‘claim and grounds’, especially where the UK would have the right of reply and they know, the evidence does not support the Argentinian version of history, or its interpretation of modern international law, especially about the right of self-determination.
Good luck trying to explain to either the tribunal or court how that doesn’t apply!
However, it does make it look like something is happening, a good distraction in case anyone in Argentina is worried about the situation there.
You know how things are going in Argentina, and for it’s president, by how vocal they are about the Malvinas.
Works every time, that’s why they spoon feed it to the masses from birth.
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