The Reaction To The Judgement
Chile accepted the judgement immediately and enacted it into its domestic law on 14 June 1977 (decree n°416 over the base lines).
On 25 January 1978 Argentina repudiated the arbitration award. According to Argentina:
- the Argentine argument had been distorted and misrepresented.
- the judgement had covered topics outside its terms of reference
- the Court had drawn contradictory conclusions.
- the Court had made errors of interpretation.
- the Court had made geographical and historical errors.
- the Court had not properly balanced the arguments and evidence of each party.
It has been argued that the Argentine claims over the Beagle Channel could not be sustained from a legal point of view and that in practice many of their assertions were subjective.
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