Argentina launches lawsuit against Falkland oil drillers
Source: BBC
Argentina has begun legal proceedings against three British and two US companies for drilling oil near the Falkland Islands.
Analysts suggested Argentina would have little joy in the courts.
"The Argentines will lose," Malcolm Bracken at Redmayne Bentley told the BBC. "They have no jurisdiction - the UN settled the matter in 1982."
Britain rests its case on its long-term administration of the Falklands and on the principle of self-determination for the islanders, who are almost all of British descent.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-32354222
Argentina has no case at all.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Kirchner borrowing a page from the Galtieri's playbook to distract from domestic problems.
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)Pretty clear they will get a favorable decision in Argentina and then they will request extradition of executives of those companies identified. They have made no secret of the strategy. They want that oil.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Colonialists have no right to hold on to faraway lands conquered during colonial times.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)As long as they have been inhabited, they have been part of the UK, and every single human being on those islands is a citizen of the UK.
This is a matter of self-determination, and has been already resolved, regardless of the Argentine whines.
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)They simply want the land and the resources around it. They would be more than happy to put the islanders on a ship to Britain.
They are an inconvenience to Argentina.
hack89
(39,171 posts)the natives of the Falklands get no say in their future?
EX500rider
(10,849 posts)Last edited Fri Apr 17, 2015, 06:00 PM - Edit history (1)
The Islands had no indigenous inhabitants, thus they were not "conquered".......they were discovered.
And they are about 400 miles off the coast of Argentina, which is a "faraway lands conquered during colonial times."
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)How does one "conquer" an uninhabited archipelago? Or was that merely editorial color to better advertise a bias-- like the absurdity of referring to its current inhabitants as 'colonialists.'
The only other possibility I can see is that you're dramatically uniformed about the history and the culture of the region. Which thinking about it, may be more accurate than my initial premise. Law of probabilities and all...
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)Daniel Filmus is a clown who runs the Argentinian Clown Ministry.