Hamburg hearing opens as Argentina seeks to halt Sea Lion and the UK disputes jurisdiction

Tuesday, November 10th 2026 - 15:31 UTC

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The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea began hearing Argentina and the United Kingdom in Hamburg on Tuesday over Argentina’s request for provisional measures to halt the Sea Lion oil project north of the Falklands. Argentina argued that the resources of a disputed continental shelf cannot be exploited unilaterally, while the United Kingdom rejects the tribunal’s competence to rule on what it considers a question of sovereignty. Read full article

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Steve Potts
Jurist Marcelo Kohen, an adviser to the delegation, said Argentina refers to sovereignty only to show that its claim to the continental shelf is plausible. “The land dominates the sea. That is why, and only why, we refer here to Argentine sovereignty,” he said.

Quite, but the Falkland Islands are not Argentinian. The land dominated the sea principle:
https://www.academia.edu/126312465/Falklands_Land_Dominates_the_Sea_Principle
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