Al Qalaa
17-02-2008, 21:06
The General Assembly of the United Nations;
Concerned over potential dispute over maritime commerce and sea territory;
Aware of a state's right to regulate commerce within it's territorial waters;
Alarmed by a lack of standards in maritime law, enacts the following;
1. Unless otherwise agreed upon by the assembly due to special considerations, a state may claim up to 12 nautical miles of sea as its territory from her baseline (hearby defined as the mean low-water mark) wherein it may enforce her laws, enforce her security, and refuse entry to foreign military vessels.
2. Each state may claim a region up to 200 nautical miles from it's baseline as her Exclusive Economic Zone, wherein she may have exclusive use of any natural resources, at sea or on the bed, but may not infringe on a foreign ships right to loiter or pass, whether innocent or belligerent.
3. Any body of water landward of the state's baseline is henceforth defined as an Internal Water, where a state can exercise any right it could upon land.
4. In the event of overlapping Territorial or Exclusive Economic Zones between states, the border will be defined as the median between the two territories, unless otherwise agreed upon by individual treaty.
5. A military vessel may engage and board any vessel in International Waters it suspects of Piracy or Slavery, with the UN's blessing.
Concerned over potential dispute over maritime commerce and sea territory;
Aware of a state's right to regulate commerce within it's territorial waters;
Alarmed by a lack of standards in maritime law, enacts the following;
1. Unless otherwise agreed upon by the assembly due to special considerations, a state may claim up to 12 nautical miles of sea as its territory from her baseline (hearby defined as the mean low-water mark) wherein it may enforce her laws, enforce her security, and refuse entry to foreign military vessels.
2. Each state may claim a region up to 200 nautical miles from it's baseline as her Exclusive Economic Zone, wherein she may have exclusive use of any natural resources, at sea or on the bed, but may not infringe on a foreign ships right to loiter or pass, whether innocent or belligerent.
3. Any body of water landward of the state's baseline is henceforth defined as an Internal Water, where a state can exercise any right it could upon land.
4. In the event of overlapping Territorial or Exclusive Economic Zones between states, the border will be defined as the median between the two territories, unless otherwise agreed upon by individual treaty.
5. A military vessel may engage and board any vessel in International Waters it suspects of Piracy or Slavery, with the UN's blessing.