# Argentine lawyer mocks UK’s sovereignty claim in Falklands oil case

- Source: Guardian World
- Published: 2026-11-11T16:05:45+00:00
- Category: World
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/nov/11/argentine-lawyer-mocks-uk-sovereignty-claim-in-falklands-oil-case
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/argentine-lawyer-mocks-uk-s-sovereignty-claim-in-falklands-oil-case-e9dd6f/

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 be

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