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Argentina launches sanctions process against 45 entities over “unauthorized” Falklands operations

From La Nación · () Spanish

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  • Argentina announced sanctions proceedings against 45 entities over alleged unauthorized operations in the Falkland Islands and surrounding waters.
  • The process will target oil companies, shareholders and firms that provide services to those operations.
  • President Javier Milei’s government said it would also tighten sanctions, propose sovereignty legislation and require companies seeking RIGI incentives to declare they do not violate Argentine law.

Argentina has opened a sanctions process against 45 “subjects” over what the government calls unauthorized operations in territory it claims as its own. The proceedings will target companies allegedly conducting hydrocarbon activities on the continental shelf, as well as their shareholders and service providers.

In a statement signed by President Javier Milei, the government said the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands and their surrounding maritime and island areas belong to Argentina “by history and by law.” It said the recent occupation had deepened its activities by moving further into the extraction of Argentina’s natural resources.

by history and by law

· Argentine governmentThe government used the phrase to reaffirm Argentina’s sovereignty claim over the Falkland Islands and related territories.

The government presented the sanctions as recognition for those who fought and died for the nation, and as a warning that Argentina would not abandon its sovereignty claim. “Those who now seek to profit by violating that sovereignty will find the full force of the law in the Argentine state,” the statement said.

Those who now seek to profit by violating that sovereignty will find the full force of the law in the Argentine state.

· Argentine governmentThe presidential statement warned companies involved in activities Argentina considers unauthorized.

Milei announced the tougher policy in a nationally televised address the previous day. It includes stricter sanctions on foreign companies operating in the archipelago, a bill on national sovereignty to be sent to Congress and the creation of an Integrated Naval Base in Tierra del Fuego.

Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno said 180 companies had been notified of the policy the previous week. The group includes offshore oil companies operating in the Falklands and providers of oil, financial, insurance and other services. He also said the government would add a clause to the RIGI investment-incentive regime requiring applicants to declare that they are not violating Argentine Law 26.659 or amendments expected from Congress.

The Falklands are Argentine by history and by law: there is no discussion about it.

· Javier MileiThe president reiterated Argentina’s sovereignty position in announcing the broader policy.
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