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EX500rider

(10,518 posts)
Fri Apr 17, 2015, 03:34 PM Apr 2015

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.
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Argentina launches lawsuit against Falkland oil drillers (Original Post) EX500rider Apr 2015 OP
In what country's courts are they filing the lawsuit--Fantasyland? geek tragedy Apr 2015 #1
in Argentina and internationally Bacchus4.0 Apr 2015 #4
Viva Malvinas! cosmicone Apr 2015 #2
No Argentinians have ever lived on those islands. They have never been part of Argentina. geek tragedy Apr 2015 #3
Argentina cares nothing for the Falklanders Bacchus4.0 Apr 2015 #5
So you are not a supporter of self determination? hack89 Apr 2015 #6
Conquered? EX500rider Apr 2015 #7
How does one "conquer" an uninhabited archipelago? LanternWaste Apr 2015 #8
99.8% of the Falklanders voted to remain with Britain in the 2013 referendum. Little Tich Apr 2015 #9
 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
1. In what country's courts are they filing the lawsuit--Fantasyland?
Fri Apr 17, 2015, 04:04 PM
Apr 2015

Kirchner borrowing a page from the Galtieri's playbook to distract from domestic problems.

Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts)
4. in Argentina and internationally
Fri Apr 17, 2015, 04:11 PM
Apr 2015

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)
2. Viva Malvinas!
Fri Apr 17, 2015, 04:07 PM
Apr 2015

Colonialists have no right to hold on to faraway lands conquered during colonial times.

 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
3. No Argentinians have ever lived on those islands. They have never been part of Argentina.
Fri Apr 17, 2015, 04:09 PM
Apr 2015

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)
5. Argentina cares nothing for the Falklanders
Fri Apr 17, 2015, 04:18 PM
Apr 2015

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)
6. So you are not a supporter of self determination?
Fri Apr 17, 2015, 04:21 PM
Apr 2015

the natives of the Falklands get no say in their future?

EX500rider

(10,518 posts)
7. Conquered?
Fri Apr 17, 2015, 04:28 PM
Apr 2015

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)
8. How does one "conquer" an uninhabited archipelago?
Fri Apr 17, 2015, 04:35 PM
Apr 2015

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)
9. 99.8% of the Falklanders voted to remain with Britain in the 2013 referendum.
Fri Apr 17, 2015, 10:18 PM
Apr 2015

Daniel Filmus is a clown who runs the Argentinian Clown Ministry.

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