9.1 The Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea is headed by a Director who ... Secretary-General under the Convention, other than treaty depositary functions, by maintaining and ...

The High Seas Treaty aims to help place 30% of the seas ... was signed 40 years ago in 1982 - the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. That agreement established an area called the high seas ...

Members of the United Nations have begun negotiations on the first treaty to manage and protect biodiversity in international waters. These vast areas of open ocean are far from coastlines and ...

Talks to pass the UN High Seas Treaty had been ongoing for two weeks ... was signed 40 years ago in 1982 - the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. That agreement established an area called ...

Years in the making, the treaty would be an international, legally-binding instrument under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. At present, only about 1.5 per cent of the high seas is under ...

The Philippines’ Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo discusses how his nation navigates tensions in the South China Sea, ...

Without prejudice to the rules of international law and Annex III ... where interference may be caused to the use of recognized sea lanes essential to international navigation or in areas of ...

These are issues that have long interested Dr Siva Thambisetty, Associate Professor of Law at LSE and one of those involved in negotiations over the UN High Seas Treaty. Also known as the Treaty on ...

The Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction Treaty, currently awaiting ratification ... allotted by the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea (Unclos) to any of the coastal ...

The treaty establishes important rules to protect the “high seas”—the ... manner consistent with the prevention of significant adverse impacts on the marine environment” of the high seas. This ...

with the relevant law taking effect in late March MOSCOW, June 1. /TASS/. Moscow has formally denounced the Russian-Ukrainian treaty governing joint use of the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait ...