The most important things of the United Nations conferences on the law of the sea were so-called the new concept of the economic zone. The writer wishes t study the issues with respect to the economic zone and its special prospects.
The Latin Americ...
The most important things of the United Nations conferences on the law of the sea were so-called the new concept of the economic zone. The writer wishes t study the issues with respect to the economic zone and its special prospects.
The Latin American countries more contributed to the development of the economic zone, which was the crucial issue of the third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, than any other state or region. Though their claims have been extremely varied, when the different types of claims are analyzed, important similarities can be noted among the more recent claims. Generally they contemplate the exercise of sole sovereignty or jurisdiction by the coastal state over the renewable and non-renewable national resources in the water seabed, and subsoil of the area of the sea within 200 miles.
The Afro-Asian countries supported not only the recognition of state jurisdiction over the exploitation of the natural resources and other right for the protection of national interests relating to it in the water, seabed and subsoil of the area of the sea within 200 miles from the base-line of the coastal states but also the right of the access to the economic zone of the coastal state by landlocked and geographically disadvantaged sates.
The 1974 Caracas Session of the third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea was confronted with a number of crucial differences in several issues, such as relationships between economic zone and continental shelf, economic zone and fisheries, economic zone and high seas, and right of geographically disadvantaged state etc.. Caracas negotiations were not successful in reducing such differences.
The 1975 Geneva Session of the 3rd United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea has developed the negotiation under the single negotiating text. The Session's important problems were, of course, the resource jurisdiction, especially fisheries in the economic zone and the question of the delimitation of the economic zone and the continental shelf.
It is to be hoped that the burdensome takes of eliminating the differences found in the two sessions and finding an acceptable agreement be concluded in the near future session or sessions.