The Regime of Straits and the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea

1980 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Norton Moore
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
Coastal Fisheries ◽  
The Third ◽  
State Practice ◽  
The Law ◽  
Deep Seabed Mining ◽  
Seabed Mining ◽  
Preparatory Work

The negotiations at the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea have been the most important catalyst of this century for a new legal and political order for the oceans. The conference, together with its preparatory work within the “Seabeds Committee,” has indelibly stamped ocean perspectives. Even without a widely acceptable, comprehensive treaty the influence of these perspectives on state practice will be profound—indeed, it already has been, for example, in legitimizing 200-mile coastal fisheries jurisdiction. If the conference is able to clear the remaining hurdles, particularly that of deep seabed mining, the new treaty is likely to govern oceans law for the foreseeable future.

United States Interests in the Law of the Sea Convention

1994 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Multilateral Negotiations ◽  
The Third ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Law

In 1982 the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea adopted a treaty, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, that succeeded in resolving the most fundamental questions of the law of the sea in accordance with three basic principles: 1.The rules of the law of the sea must fairly balance the respective interests of all states, notably the competing coastal and maritime interests, in a manner that is generally acceptable.2.Multilateral negotiations on the basis of consensus replace unilateral claims of right as the principal means for determining that balance.3.Compulsory dispute settlement mechanisms should be adopted to interpret, apply, and enforce the balance.

The law of the sea and the deep seabed

1978 ◽  
Vol 290 (1366) ◽  
pp. 21-31
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Law ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
International Agreement ◽  
Exploration And Exploitation ◽  
The Third ◽  
Sea Bed ◽  
The Law ◽  
Work Done

It is the object of the third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea to obtain broad international agreement on the limits to the territorial sea, on that area beyond these limits within which the coastal state may exercise rights over living and non-living resources and on the nature and manner of exercise of those rights. The Conference is also required to establish an international regime to deal with the exploration and exploitation of the deep seabed beyond the limits of coastal states’ rights. The work done by the Conference in five sessions since 1973 will have its effect on international law and practice but, partly owing to differences between the view-points of less industrialized and the more industrialized states (not confined to marine matters), the global solution essential for the orderly regulation of movement of shipping, scientific research and development of fisheries and sea-bed mineral resources may yet elude the Conference, to the detriment of the participating states and of the international community as a whole.

scholarly journals The Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea: The 1975 Geneva Session

1975 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 763-797 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Stevenson ◽  
Bernard H. Oxman
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
The Third ◽  
Substantial Progress ◽  
Working Groups ◽  
The Law

The second substantive session of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea was held at Geneva from March 26 to May 10, 1975. It was decided at the outset that this would be a negotiating session. There was no general debate. Few formal meetings were held. Even informal working groups of the whole tended to rely on smaller groups the work of which was necessarily removed from public view. Progress, in many respects substantial progress, was made toward producing generally acceptable texts in this way. However, the Conference did not complete the negotiation of a new Law of the Sea Convention or approved texts.

Participation of the European Economic Community in a New Law of the Sea Convention

1979 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 426-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert W. Koers
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
European Economic ◽  
The Third ◽  
Legal Questions ◽  
Sixth Session ◽  
The Law

Although it is not yet clear whether the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III) will succeed in its task of adopting a “convention dealing with all matters relating to the law of the sea,” the drafters of the Informal Composite Negotiating Text (ICNT) produced at the conference’s sixth session decided to incorporate proposals on the final clauses of a future convention in the ICNT. Indeed, even if the conference were to reach consensus overnight on all outstanding substantive issues, problems relating to these final clauses could easily delay—or even jeopardize—the adoption of a new convention: they involve, after all, very complex political and legal questions. It is therefore only right that the conference agreed not to leave these problems to the very end of the negotiating process.

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