Coroner & Legal
Argentina appeal to UN over pulp mill
Argentina accused neighbouring Uruguay in the UN’s highest court Monday of reneging on a bilateral treaty when it authorised a paper mill that Buenos Aires says is now polluting a shared river.
The mill built by Finnish firm Botnia on the Uruguayan bank of the River Uruguay, was causing “irreversible” environmental damage, Argentina argued on the first day of three weeks of hearings before the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
“This mill discharges day after day a huge quantity of pollutants into the water and into the air,” Susana Cerutti, legal adviser to the Argentinian foreign ministry, argued before the panel of 15 judges.
“It is a bad mill in a bad place.”
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