The year 2014 marks the twentieth anniversary of the entry into force of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (the Convention). The Convention has been widely accepted. As of ...

Mr. Vladimir Jares, Director, Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations, said that UNCLOS was a package deal, balancing the interrelationship of very ...

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea is considered the “constitution of the oceans”. It is also known as the Law of the Sea Convention or the Law of the Sea treaty. It was open ...

Those ideas shaped the convention—and led Ronald Reagan to oppose it before he became president and vote against the convention at the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and ...

Miguel De Serpa Soares is United Nations Legal Counsel and Under-­Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, and Special Adviser to the Presidents of the Ocean Conference on oceans and legal matters.

Seven in 10 Filipinos believe that the Marcos administration should continue to assert its rights in the West Philippine Sea, ...

Proponents warn that failing to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) means giving up strategic mineral reserves that are valued in the trillions of dollars and key ...

"In fact, the irony is that the United States already scrupulously follows the rules in the convention," said James Kraska, an international law expert at the U.S. Naval War College.

An influential group of former military and political leaders are calling for the U.S. to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, in an effort to spur the country’s interest ...

Insofar as the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea seeks to move the United States in this direction and serves as an indicator of steps yet to come, it poses a danger to the vision ...

Those ideas shaped the convention—and led Ronald Reagan to oppose it before he became president and vote against the convention at the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and ...

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