PREAMBLE TO THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF THE SEA. PREAMBLE TO THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF THE SEA. Another Premature "Mission Accomplished": Law of the Sea Treaty Still Seriously Flawed - David A. Ridenour - Townhall Conservative Columnists. President George W.
Bush has declared the Law of the Sea Treaty a victory of U.S. foreign policy and is lobbying the Senate to ratify it. But, like the President's USS Abraham Lincoln pronouncement about Iraq, it's far too early to declare "mission accomplished. " While conceding that the treaty as originally formulated in 1982 had serious flaws, treaty proponents claim intense negotiations concluding in 1994 fixed them all. Unfortunately, they did not. Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger and University of Virginia Law Professor John Norton Moore, for example, claimed in an article in The Washington Post that the treaty would vastly extend U.S. control over ocean resources by establishing 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zones. They're wrong. First, U.S. control over such resources already exists under U.S. law and customary international law. Second, the U.S. does not need to participate in the treaty for its economic zone to be honored. William H. This, too, in incorrect.
ITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF THE SEA. Article34 Legal status of waters forming straits used for international navigation 1.
The regime of passage through straits used for international navigation established in this Part shall not in other respects affect the legal status of the waters forming such straits or the exercise by the States bordering the straits of their sovereignty or jurisdiction over such waters and their air space, bed and subsoil. 2. The sovereignty or jurisdiction of the States bordering the straits is exercised subject to this Part and to other rules of international law. Article35 Scope of this Part Nothing in this Part affects: Article36 High seas routes or routes through exclusive economic zones through straits used for international navigation Article37. ITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF THE SEA. Article 1 Use of terms and scope.
PREAMBLE TO THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF THE SEA. Article 46 Use of terms For the purposes of this Convention: Article47 Archipelagic baselines 1.
Kill the Law of the Sea Treaty - Peter Roff. The Law of the Sea Treaty is a complex international agreement that's been around since Ronald Reagan was president.
Its ostensible purpose is to define the rights and responsibilities of nations in their use of the world's oceans, establishing guidelines for businesses, the environment, and the management of marine natural resources. Reagan objected to several of the treaty's provisions and refused to sign it without amendments changing it, but like a bad penny, it keeps turning up.
In 1994 the United Nations attempted to move the ball down the field by creating an "Agreement on Implementation" that would address the concerns expressed by the United States and others. It didn't really make the treaty any better but President Bill Clinton signed it anyway. Law of the Sea Treaty: Economic, Security Boon. Last week, five former secretaries of state — Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, James Baker III, Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice — endorsed the Law of the Sea and urged the U.S. Senate to approve the treaty. Writing in The Wall Street Journal, they said the Law of the Sea will be "a boon to our national security and economic interests. " U.S. participation in the treaty, they added, "will codify our maritime rights and give us new tools to advance national interests. " American conservatives are generally skeptical of international treaties, so the support from the secretaries is informative and welcome. What's more, the treaty has bipartisan backing from recent U.S. presidents:
PREAMBLE TO THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF THE SEA. Article86 Application of the provisions of this Part The provisions of this Part apply to all parts of the sea that are not included in the exclusive economic zone, in the territorial sea or in the internal waters of a State, or in the archipelagic waters of an archipelagic State.
This article does not entail any abridgement of the freedoms enjoyed by all States in the exclusive economic zone in accordance with article 58. Article87. PREAMBLE TO THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF THE SEA. Article76.
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Oceans and Law of the Sea.