The Sea Lion project, operated by Israeli firm Navitas and Britain's Rockhopper, could triple the per capita gross domestic product of the 3,400 islanders and finance a sovereign wealth fund. Argentina has asked the Hamburg-based tribunal to suspend the project to protect the environment and preserve conditions for future bilateral negotiations. British Attorney General Ellie Reeves rejected the challenge in court as Princess Anne visited Port Stanley to signal continued solidarity.
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Argentina is using the maritime tribunal in Hamburg to litigate substantive matters regar…: Argentina is using the maritime tribunal in Hamburg to litigate substantive matters regarding the disputed islands for the first time.
Buenos Aires warns that extracting oil will reinforce British de facto control by generat…: Buenos Aires warns that extracting oil will reinforce British de facto control by generating funds for the local military base.
The United Kingdom rejects the proceedings on the grounds that the maritime body is not t…: The United Kingdom rejects the proceedings on the grounds that the maritime body is not the proper forum for sovereignty disputes.
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Argentina has told an international tribunal that Britain’s approval of oil drilling off the Falkland Islands has dramatically deepened a sovereignty dispute that led to war four decades ago.
At the start of an historic legal clash at the Hamburg-based International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (Itlos), an Argentinian legal team argued that the oil project must be suspended.
Javier Oyarzábal, chief legal adviser to Argentina’s ministry of foreign affairs, said that the 3,400 inhabitants of the Falkland Islands, whose status as a British overseas territory is disputed by Buenos Aires, had no right to the resources around the south Atlantic archipelago.
Oyarzábal said: “[Argentina] respects the interests of the inhabitants of the islands and their way of life as enshrined in the Argentine constitution … What these British citizens do not have is a right to decide to which state the islands belong …
“These resources belong to the Argentine people. Some 46 million of them including the 1,247 inhabitants born on the islands whose interests will be duly taken into account.”
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