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Current Legal Developments South Pacific New Developments in Marine Resource Management for Pacific Islands Introduction Thirteen independent Pacific Island states' created a Strategic Action Programme for international waters of Pacific Islands (SAP) in 1997,z which was endorsed by the Heads of Government at the 28th South Pacific Forum.3 The Pacific Islands SAP is a particularly notable achievement, because the optimum management and use of international waters4 is a notoriously complex and elusive goal of law and policy in all nations with coasts.5 This complexity is manifested in several ways, not least of which is the elaborate, evolving network of bilateral, regional and international binding and non-binding agreements on most facets of the development and use of the marine domain.6 In nations with a small land-to-sea ratio, which includes most Pacific Island states, 1 Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, 2 Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. Preparation of the SAP was co-ordinated by the South Pacific Regional Environment 3 Programme (SPREP) from SPREP's headquarters in Apia, Samoa. 4 Rarotonga, Cook Islands, 17-19 September, 1997. For purposes of the SAP, the Global Environment Facility's (GEF) definition of "international waters"
The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1998
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