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Is Riga an Historic Bay?

Is Riga an Historic Bay? 20 Is Riga an Historic Bay? Anne E. Reynolds Humberside College Of Higher Education Introduction Since 1945, international conventions,' have demonstrated the increasing signifi- cance attached by states to the requirement of establishing internationally accept- able uniform criteria for the determination of a state's maritime boundaries. These boundaries assume importance at the international level, as they not merely denote the extent of a state's territorial jurisdiction, but are also the determinants of the limits of a particular state's sovereignty over its land territory, internal waters and territorial sea, as well as creating for that state specific jurisdictional rights exercis- able either to the exclusion of other states or supplementary to their rights. The demarcation of bays as internal waters has been and remains a contentious issue in maritime law, although few would argue with the logic of the general prin- ciple derived from customary international law that because of the affinity of the geographical configuration of a bay with its respective hinterland, its designation should be that of internal waters.? The crux of the argument undoubtedly arises from the principle that the baseline be drawn across the mouth of the bay, although the earlier dissension, arising from the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Estuarine and Coastal Law (in 1993 continued as The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law) Brill

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Brill
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© 1987 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0268-0106
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1875-2993
DOI
10.1163/187529987X00031
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20 Is Riga an Historic Bay? Anne E. Reynolds Humberside College Of Higher Education Introduction Since 1945, international conventions,' have demonstrated the increasing signifi- cance attached by states to the requirement of establishing internationally accept- able uniform criteria for the determination of a state's maritime boundaries. These boundaries assume importance at the international level, as they not merely denote the extent of a state's territorial jurisdiction, but are also the determinants of the limits of a particular state's sovereignty over its land territory, internal waters and territorial sea, as well as creating for that state specific jurisdictional rights exercis- able either to the exclusion of other states or supplementary to their rights. The demarcation of bays as internal waters has been and remains a contentious issue in maritime law, although few would argue with the logic of the general prin- ciple derived from customary international law that because of the affinity of the geographical configuration of a bay with its respective hinterland, its designation should be that of internal waters.? The crux of the argument undoubtedly arises from the principle that the baseline be drawn across the mouth of the bay, although the earlier dissension, arising from the

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International Journal of Estuarine and Coastal Law (in 1993 continued as The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law) – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1987

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