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#HypocriSea: The United States’ Failure to Join the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea

31.Oct.2019
by Will Schrepferman

"[T]he #UnitedStates cannot claim #Russia and #China to be in violation of a treaty that it is not a party to. When UNCLOS was initially signed in 1982, the Reagan administration refused to accede based on disagreements regarding deep seabed mining. Despite revisions to the treaty in 1994, the Senate refused to hold hearings on the matter. Although Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana finally held hearings in 2004 and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously recommended adopting the treaty, no further action was taken by the Senate."

https://hir.harvard.edu/hypocri-sea-the-united-states-failure-to-join-the-un-convention-on-the-law-of-the-sea-2/

#WaterIsLife #LawOfTheSeaConvention #LawOfTheSea #UnderseaMining #UNConventionLawOfTheSea #UNCLOS