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Weekly Report - 31 March 2016 (WR-16-12)

ARGENTINA: Celebrating a new map

Since 2009, Argentina’s foreign ministry has been making a case to the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) that it be granted ‘coastal state’ status, meaning that it can claim extended maritime sovereignty beyond the 200-mile coastal limit. On 11 March, the CLCS ruled in favour of the Argentine position, effectively expanding its territorial waters in the South Atlantic by 1.7m square kilometres, or 35%.

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