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 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.” ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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], ...

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".

Authors and Affiliations (late Government Geologist for the Falkland Islands)., Wood View, Grosmont Road, Plumstead Common, London, S.E.18. HERBERT A. BAKER ...