UK and Argentina clash over Falklands oil project as Hamburg tribunal starts
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Sea Lion project in the North Falkland basin threatens to deepen sovereignty dispute
Argentina has told an international tribunal that Britain’s approval of oil drilling off the Falkland Islands has dramatically deepened a sovereignty dispute that led to war four decades ago.
At the start of an historic legal clash at the Hamburg-based International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (Itlos), an Argentinian legal team argued that the oil project must be suspended.
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