马塞洛·科恩在汉堡的一场听证会上代表阿根廷出庭。阿根廷律师称，英国错误地相信英国王室对部分海洋拥有主权的历史信条，不应被允许像17世纪的殖民国家那样对待福克兰群岛周边水域。阿根廷已向一个国际法庭提出这一主张。
Marcelo Kohen was representing Argentina at a hearing in Hamburg. 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 Dominium maris Britannici Argentina has told an international tribunal.
科恩在汉堡的听证会上代表阿根廷出庭，他嘲讽英国显然相信英国王室对大片海洋拥有主权的历史信条。
Marcelo Kohen, representing Argentina at a hearing in Hamburg, mocked Britain for apparently believing in the historic doctrine that the British crown has sovereignty over expansive parts of the oceans.
阿根廷已向国际海洋法法庭（Itlos）提出申请，要求作出裁决，迫使英国在进一步仲裁之前暂停在福克兰群岛北盆地的石油钻探。
Argentina has applied to the international tribunal for the law of the sea (Itlos) for a ruling that would force Britain to suspend the drilling for oil in the North Basin of the Falkland Islands ahead of further arbitration.
海狮油田位于福克兰群岛以北约130英里处。福克兰群岛是英国海外领地，阿根廷长期以来对其主张主权。
The Sea Lion oilfield is about 130 miles north of the Falkland Islands, a British overseas territory over which Argentina has a longstanding sovereignty claim.
据报道，阿根廷总统哈维尔·米莱在内阁成员中分享了一张阿根廷法律团队在汉堡的照片，称其“非常了不起”，并补充说“我们正在以历史上任何人都未曾有过的方式处理福克兰群岛问题”。
Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, reportedly shared among his cabinet a photograph of the Argentinian legal team in Hamburg, describing it as “tremendous”, adding that “we are working on the Falklands issue like no one else in history”.
科恩在听证会第二天向法庭陈述时说，围绕这片南大西洋700座岛屿的争端——阿根廷称之为马尔维纳斯群岛——并不意味着该地区是一个“法律黑洞”，也不意味着英国可以随意处置其自然资源。
Addressing the tribunal on the second day of hearings, Kohen said that the dispute over the archipelago of 700 islands in the south Atlantic – known in Argentina as the Malvinas – did not mean that the area was a “legal black hole” and that the UK could do as it wished with its natural resources.
“双方对主权存在争议，并不会使马尔维纳斯周边地区变成某种……”他说。
“The fact that the parties dispute sovereignty does not turn the areas surrounding the Malvinas into some kind of” he said.
“我们不是生活在17世纪……我们身处一个应当终结殖民主义最后残余的时代。”英格兰和威尔士总检察长埃莉·里夫斯周二对法庭的法官小组表示，阿根廷申请暂停钻探，是为了推进其主权野心。
We are not in the 17th century … We are in an era where we should put an end to the last vestiges of colonialism.”Ellie Reeves, the attorney general for England and Wales, told the tribunal’s panel of judges on Tuesday that Argentina was seeking to further its sovereignty ambitions by applying for suspension of the drilling.
她声称，此举将扼杀海狮项目，给福克兰群岛居民和参与公司带来“灾难性后果”。英国主张，负责裁决海事事务的该仲裁庭无权介入主权问题。
She claimed that such a move would kill the Sea Lion project, with “disastrous consequences” for the Falkland Islanders and the companies involved. The UK claimed that the tribunal, which adjudicates over maritime matters, does not have jurisdiction to wade into matters of sovereignty.
科恩从法语切换到英语发言，称英国在其陈述中未提及“房间里的大象”或“浴缸里的鲸鱼”。他表示，联合国将福克兰群岛视为非自治领土，并于1976年呼吁双方在主权争端解决之前，避免作出单方面改变现状的决定。
Kohen, switching from French to English, said the UK had failed to mention in its submissions the “elephant in the room” or the “whale in the bathtub”. The UN regarded the Falkland Islands as a non-self-governing territory, he said, and had called in 1976 for both sides to refrain from taking decisions that would unilaterally change the situation before the sovereignty dispute was settled.
科恩对仲裁庭表示，开采碳氢化合物将使这些岛屿跻身“仅次于摩纳哥公国的最高财富行列”，同时剥夺阿根廷对这些资源的权利。
The exploitation of hydrocarbons would put the islands among the “highest ranks of wealth just below the principality of Monaco” while depriving Argentina of its rights to those resources, Kohen told the tribunal.
阿根廷法律团队主张，鉴于阿根廷的权利将受到不可弥补的损害，暂停钻探一事十分紧迫。钻探定于明年3月开始，可能使这些岛屿的GDP翻倍。
Argentina’s legal team claimed that suspension of the drilling, which is due to start in March next year and which could double the GDP of the islands, was urgent given the irreparable damage to Argentina’s rights.
英国主张此事并不紧迫，因为石油开采要到2028年才会进行，在此之前，国际海洋法法庭的一个仲裁小组将就油田的未来得出结论。
The UK has claimed there is no urgency as oil extraction would not take place until 2028, before which an Itlos arbitration panel would have come to a conclusion on the future of the oilfield.
阿根廷外交部法律顾问马里奥·奥亚尔萨瓦尔在向由20名法官组成的仲裁庭作最后陈述时说，他们拒绝英国试图将此次程序定性为试图就主权争端提起诉讼的说法。
In his closing remarks to the panel of 20 judges, Mario Oyarzábal, a legal adviser to Argentina’s ministry of foreign affairs, said they rejected the UK’s attempt to characterise the proceedings as an attempt to litigate the sovereignty dispute.
他说：“本法庭面前的问题要窄得多：在 underlying 争端仍未解决的情况下，英国是否可以单方面授权或实施新的钻探，以在争议海域开采碳氢化合物。”米莱在最近联合国大会的讲话中，将收复福克兰群岛描述为一项“国家事业”。1982年，阿根廷奉独裁者莱奥波尔多·加尔铁里将军之命入侵这些岛屿。这场持续74天的冲突以阿根廷军队投降告终，造成649名阿根廷军人、255名英国军人和3名福克兰岛民丧生。英国将于周三提交进一步陈述。
He said: “The question before this tribunal is a much narrower one: whether, while the underlying dispute remains unresolved, the UK may unilaterally authorise or carry out new drilling for the exploitation of hydrocarbons in the disputed maritime area.”Milei described the reclaiming of the Falklands as a “national cause” during his recent speech at the UN general assembly. Argentina invaded the islands in 1982 on the orders of the dictator Gen Leopoldo Galtieri. The 74-day conflict ended with the surrender of the Argentinian forces and cost the lives of 649 of its military personnel, 255 British military personnel and three Falkland Islanders. The UK will offer further submissions on Wednesday.