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Argentinian lawyer mocks UK’s sovereignty claim in Falklands oil case
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Lawyer says Britain wrong to believe in historic doctrine that crown has sovereignty over parts of oceans Britain 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
Lawyer says Britain wrong to believe in historic doctrine that crown has sovereignty over parts of oceans Britain 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 historic doctrine that the British crown has sovereignty over expansive parts of the oceans. Continue reading...
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