Milei condemns UN at General Assembly, presses Falklands claim and attacks UN regulation and pandemic response

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Argentine President levies strong condemnations against UN on Falklands dispute, AI regulation and COVID-19 overreach. Speaking at the General Debate of the Assembly's 81st session, Milei touched on several issues which he framed as UN failures and overreach. A focus of the speech was Argentina's claim to sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, which Argentina refers to as the Islas Malvinas.

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• The islands have been in dispute between Argentina and the UK since the 1800s.
• Milei argued that the UN has ignored recurring, unilateral actions taken by the UK despite Resolution 31/49, a 1976 declaration urging Argentina and the UK to avoid unilateral modifications while...
• He pointed to the Sea Lion offshore oil project, which operates under British licenses on what Argentina considers its continental shelf, and said Argentina regards those licenses as illegal.
• Last week, Argentina's government introduced a bill that would replace a 2011 law and toughen penalties on companies utilizing resources around the islands without Argentine authorization.

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UK officials responded within hours of Milei's speech with a written statement it requested to be entered into the General Assembly's official record. It said the UK "has no doubt about its sovereignty" over the islands and argued that Resolution 31/49 does not limit the islanders' right to determine their political status and pursue their own economic development. After the Soviet Union cut off supply access to West Berlin, the US and UK sent necessities to the enclave by air.

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News News Vox España, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Argentine President Javier Milei on Wednesday expressed harsh criticism towards the United Nations, accusing the organization of breaking the "sacred covenant" on which it was founded. Under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), coastal states retain sovereign rights over continental shelf resources, which means that the legality of the licenses hinges on which nation holds sovereignty over the islands. 22 Nazi leaders convicted of war crimes at Nuremberg On September 30, 1946, the international military tribunal constituted by the Allied powers in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes committed during World War II.

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