The United Nations has expanded Argentina's maritime territory to include the waters surrounding the Falkland Islands. This decision by the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf was ...

The Argentine foreign ministry recalls that back on 18 April 2022, Resolution 240/2022 declared illegal all activities on the Argentine continental shelf by the company Navitas Petroleum LP.

The United Kingdom has no doubts about its sovereignty over the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, or its right to make a submission to extend the continental shelf ...

For 187 years, the United Kingdom has controlled the Falkland Islands, ... claiming it an “unlawful assertion of jurisdiction over the Falkland Islands’ continental shelf.” ...

A Foreign Office spokesman said: "Hydrocarbons activities by any company operating on the continental shelf of the Falkland Islands are regulated by legislation of the Falkland Islands government ...

This decision by the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf was welcomed by the Argentinian government, and gives the country fresh impetus in its claims to the British territory.

The Falkland Islands is poised to approve a vast oil field in its waters in a diplomatic challenge to the UK and the Energy Secretary Ed Miliband’s anti-fossil ... [UK continental shelf], ...

Japan on Saturday extended its designation of its continental shelf to the eastern part of islands some 1,000 kilometres south of Tokyo, enabling the resource-poor country to start research on ...

It could avoid the shelf and get carried into open water beyond South Georgia, a British overseas territory some 870 miles east of the Falkland Islands. Or it could strike the sloping bottom and ...

Argentina has long disputed UK sovereignty over the Falkland Islands and fought a brief but bloody war after launching ... carried out by Navitas Petroleum on the Argentine continental shelf".

HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnam has filed a claim with the United Nations for an extended continental shelf (ECS) in the South China Sea, a month after regional neighbour the Philippines made a similar ...