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Baselines along Unstable Coasts: An Interpretation of Article 7 (2)

Baselines along Unstable Coasts: An Interpretation of Article 7 (2) and INTRODUCTION The origin of this analysis can be traced to a meeting, held in September 1987 at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York, with the aim of producing a publication designed to assist member states of the United Na- tions in following a uniform and consistent approach in drawing baselines and marking them on charts or maps of appropriate scales.' 1 The meeting was considering a working paper prepared by Victor Pres- cott, and the only major disagreement on interpretation concerned the sec- ond paragraph of Article 7. Prescott, following a pattern set over the previous 9 years, had asserted that this paragraph contained a justification for drawing straight baselines entirely separate from indented coasts and coasts fringed with islands. He was surprised to learn from people who had attended the meetings of the Law of the Sea Conference and who had been involved in drafting this article that they considered the second paragraph to be subordi- nate to the first paragraph. This means that the special provisions for highly unstable coasts can only be invoked on coasts that are deeply indented or fringed with islands. That might have been the end of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Ocean Yearbook Online Brill

Baselines along Unstable Coasts: An Interpretation of Article 7 (2)

Ocean Yearbook Online , Volume 8 (1): 20 – Jan 1, 1989

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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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2211-6001
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10.1163/221160089X00056
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and INTRODUCTION The origin of this analysis can be traced to a meeting, held in September 1987 at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York, with the aim of producing a publication designed to assist member states of the United Na- tions in following a uniform and consistent approach in drawing baselines and marking them on charts or maps of appropriate scales.' 1 The meeting was considering a working paper prepared by Victor Pres- cott, and the only major disagreement on interpretation concerned the sec- ond paragraph of Article 7. Prescott, following a pattern set over the previous 9 years, had asserted that this paragraph contained a justification for drawing straight baselines entirely separate from indented coasts and coasts fringed with islands. He was surprised to learn from people who had attended the meetings of the Law of the Sea Conference and who had been involved in drafting this article that they considered the second paragraph to be subordi- nate to the first paragraph. This means that the special provisions for highly unstable coasts can only be invoked on coasts that are deeply indented or fringed with islands. That might have been the end of the

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Published: Jan 1, 1989

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