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Concluding Remarks

Concluding Remarks Concluding Remarks H.E. Budislav Vukas Vice-President, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea It would be impossible either to sum up the conclusions of the comprehensive papers presented to this Symposium, or to try to add anything relevant to the detailed presentation of their authors. However, some of the remarks heard during the course of our Symposium, bring me back to the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III), and remind me of the way in which navigation was treated at this Conference. In this treatment perhaps lay some of the shortcomings that open the doors for the problems concerning navigation that we face today. The Conference was convened in order to elaborate a regime for the ``sea-bed and ocean floor and subsoil thereof, beyond the limits of national jurisdiction’’. In addition to this main task, states intended to clarify some problems concerning the areas under national jurisdiction (the extension of the territorial sea and the continental shelf, the establishment of the regime of the archipelagic waters and the exclusive economic zone). Although in the Preamble of the Law of the Sea Convention it is stated that state parties were prompted to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law Brill

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Brill
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© 2003 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0927-3522
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1571-8085
DOI
10.1163/092735203770223611
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Concluding Remarks H.E. Budislav Vukas Vice-President, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea It would be impossible either to sum up the conclusions of the comprehensive papers presented to this Symposium, or to try to add anything relevant to the detailed presentation of their authors. However, some of the remarks heard during the course of our Symposium, bring me back to the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III), and remind me of the way in which navigation was treated at this Conference. In this treatment perhaps lay some of the shortcomings that open the doors for the problems concerning navigation that we face today. The Conference was convened in order to elaborate a regime for the ``sea-bed and ocean floor and subsoil thereof, beyond the limits of national jurisdiction’’. In addition to this main task, states intended to clarify some problems concerning the areas under national jurisdiction (the extension of the territorial sea and the continental shelf, the establishment of the regime of the archipelagic waters and the exclusive economic zone). Although in the Preamble of the Law of the Sea Convention it is stated that state parties were prompted to

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The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2003

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