Anonymous ID: c6e513 July 16, 2020, 1:27 a.m. No.9977191   🗄️.is đź”—kun

The United Nations is working to ensure the peaceful, cooperative, legally defined uses of the seas and oceans for the individual and common benefit of humankind. Urgent calls for an effective international regime over the seabed and the ocean floor beyond a clearly defined national jurisdiction set in motion a process that spanned 15 years and saw the creation of the United Nations Seabed Committee, the signing of a treaty banning nuclear weapons on the seabed, the adoption of the General Assembly’s declaration that all seabed resources beyond the limits of national jurisdiction are the common heritage of mankind, and the convening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment.

 

The UN’s groundbreaking work in adopting the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention stands as a defining moment in the extension of international law to the vast, shared water resources of our planet. The convention has resolved several important issues related to ocean usage and sovereignty, such as:

 

Established freedom-of-navigation rightsSet territorial sea boundaries 12 miles offshoreSet exclusive economic zones up to 200 miles offshoreSet rules for extending continental shelf rights up to 350 miles offshoreCreated the International Seabed AuthorityCreated other conflict-resolution mechanisms (e.g., the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf)