Argentine lawyer mocks UK’s sovereignty claim in Falklands oil case
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from Guardian Americas · South America
Lawyer says Britain wrong to believe in historic doctrine that Crown has sovereignty over parts of oceansBritain should not be permitted to act as a 17th century colonial power treating the waters around the Falkland Islands as a Dominium maris Britannici, Argentina has told an international tribunal.Marcelo Kohen, representing Argentina at a hearing in Hamburg, mocked Britain for apparently believing in the the historic doctrine that the British Crown has sovereignty over expansive parts of the oceans. Continue reading...
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