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Internationalization of EEZ Waters (Proposal)

29-01-2004, 03:47
This is not posted yet, but is a work in progress. Ansteorra hopes that all nations will add amendments!

The Security Council in conjunction with UNCLOS:

DEFINING the EEZ as defined by the Seas and Submerged Lands Act of 1973,

REMINDING the United Nations the defintion of an EEZ boundary as an Exclusive Economic Zone, specifically:

(a) an area beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea zoes, and

(b) an area that extends for 200 nautical miles beyond territorial zones,

ALSO DEFINING sovereign land as a self-governing state with population,

STRONGLY RESPECTING the territorial and contiguous zones that United Nations Member States employ in protecting their lands,

UNDERSTANDING the EEZ zones are employed for economic use to benefit United Nations Member States,

REALIZING the growing international friction and loss of cohesion between Member Nations,

DISSOLVES the EEZ Waters to internationalize economies and give United Nations International Law further jurisdiction over the seas in an ever growing world, to give the United Nations more ability to arbitrate conflicts between countries;

EXTENDS the Territorial Seas to a 30 nautical mile limit, expanding the definitions previously laid down United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea that currently defines Territorial Sea Zones as having a 12 nautical mile limit, with a 2 nautical mile 'buffer';

EXTENDS Sovereignty of United Nations Member States into this new Territorial Seas limit and protects it under international law:

(a) by removing limitations reflected in the Convention that gives rights to innocent passage for foreign ships and giving control of such to the sovereign state, and

(b) by continuing this new limitation to allow buffer zones to fall under the same jurisdiction;

ALLOWS all nations, by right of the Law of the Sea, to take economic advantage of these newly released economic zones, with the limitation that fossil fuel sites that are already in use are still the sovereign property of nations, as defined by sovereignty;

DECREES that fossil fuel sites not protected in the previous clause be given upon international jurisdiction to sovereign nations claiming the sites;

EXTENDS the Law of the Sea to illegalize naval combat in situations that ground and air warfare would be considered illegal, and removes the limitations protecting rogue nations and nations not recognized by the United Nations.
05-02-2004, 00:54
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