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3.3 Archipelagic waters 4 Territorial sea
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3.3 Archipelagic waters 4 Territorial sea
The concept of archipelagic waters was created at UNCLOS III to deal with the situation arising where archipelagic states made use of straight baselines to enclose the archipelago. Although archipelagic waters form an integral part of the territory of the archipelagic state in the same manner as internal waters, they are subject to certain rights enjoyed by foreign states which are set out in Throughout the history of modern international law it has been accepted that coastal states enjoy certain rights in the seas adjoining their coasts. A distinction has long been made between the freedom of the high seas over which no claims to sovereignty could be made and territorial waters over which coastal states enjoyed particular rights and undertook certain duties. What was not settled
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1998
Imprint Routledge-Cavendish
Pages 1
eBook ISBN 9781843143802
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