It isn't just Kofi, but the Socialists within the U.S. pressing hard for this.
The money quote from Tom DeWeese reprinted above:
The fight over the Law of the Sea Treaty is really an ancient one between those who believe in the concepts of private property and free markets and those who can’t conceive of anything not being controlled by government.The seas have been free for the entire history of mankind, except when controlled by a dictator. We’ve fought pirates and Hitler to keep them open. Why would we now surrender that freedom to mindless, faceless bureaucrats who covet power and care nothing for our rights?
I hate those Socialists within the U.S. I don't have any use for the U.N. and think the Law of the Sea Treaty is a terrible idea.
--and it probably always will be. It was negotiated and introduced to the Senate by Clinton in '94 (like Kyoto) but instead of being voted down the LOST is just well, lost.
(from here) As of May 12, 2006, the 1982 U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea and its 1994 Agreement remained pending before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
The update cited came out June 2, '06, and maybe that's what should have been used to start a new thread instead of this walk down memory lane. I like to gripe about the UN as much as the next guy, but anyone who's got their sphincters in a wad over this thing has just given themselves a dozen years of GI problems for nothing. Just MHO.