Argentina fury at UK bid for Falkland seas
Argentina has reacted furiously to plans by Britain to lay claim to vast new tracts of potentially oil and gas-rich territories in the seas off the Falklands.
In a move likely to add new heat to the long-running diplomatic dispute, British officials are preparing to submit a bid to the United Nations to prove that thousands of extra square miles of the surrounding ocean floor are geographically part of the islands.
The claim follows a new approach in international law which holds that a nation's legitimately-held territory can extend up to 350 miles from its coast, if it can verify that it is part of the shoreline's underlying continental shelf. Read It Here
(RG) Well it looks like I might be back at War again as I’m going back to the Falklands in November, now then were is that SA 80 manual?
© Mack (RG) The thoughts of a Falklands War Veteran.
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