[TigersEye]

Good find. Thanks for the ping.

Previous thread here.

[hedgetrimmer]

FYI

Parties to the Law of the Sea treaty yesterday adopted the 2004 budget for the convention's tribunal and discussed the changing role of the 21-year-old pact.

Meeting participants agreed to allocate $8 million for the tribunal next year, less than the $8.6 million originally proposed at the meeting's opening session. The reduction was made possible by eliminating some communication and equipment spending and by modifying some budget procedures.

Delegates also discussed whether the meeting should expand its role to address issues other than budgetary and administrative matters. Chile, supported by several other nations, proposed that the meeting should consider questions relating to the implementation of the law of the sea, while Norway, Japan and the United Kingdom, as well as the United States as an observer, argued that there was no legal basis for expanding the meeting's agenda.

Sierra Leone said the convention should be expanded to address problems of safety and human rights of international seafarers and illegal smuggling, even if other international bodies also address them (U.N. release, June 12).

http://www.unwire.org/UNWire/20030613/449_5022.asp

[TigersEye]

The Center for Security Policy correctly states that the treaty effectively prohibits two functions vital to American security: intelligence collection in – and submerged transit of – territorial waters.

[hedgetrimmer]

FYI: Here is a 1998 bulletin on LOST from the American Geological Association:

The American Geophysical Union has sent out the following message to its membership in an effort to encourage Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms (R-NC) to allow the Law of the Sea treaty to complete the ratification process. Ratification has virtually universal support from all interested parties, including environmental groups, the American Petroleum Institute, the oceanographic research community, and the U.S. Navy. Ratification must take place by November 15th or the US loses its place on key governing bodies for treaty implementation. The treaty affects a great number of geoscientists, especially those involved in offshore petroleum exploration, marine minerals development, and marine research. A number of prominent geoscientists were involved in the treaty's development over many years, foremost among them the late Hollis Hedberg, many of whose ideas were incorporated into the final pact, signed in 1982.

http://216.109.117.135/search/cache?p=%22law+of+the+sea+treaty%22+2004&u=www.agiweb.org/legis105/seaalert.html&w=%22law+of+the+sea+treaty%22+2004&d=968F0BC03C&c=482&yc=22103&icp=1

[RickofEssex]

Who created the United Nations? UNITED NATIONS, COMMUNIST AGENTS, WORLD GOVERNMENT, KARL MARX, SOCIALISM
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a00f5fb38b0.htm