Know where it is to be based? From what I can glean, Jamaica!
Headquartered in Jamaica, the International Seabed Authority has an assembly, a council, a bureaucracy and commissions, all drawing tax-free salaries. If the United States ratifies the treaty, Americans would have the same vote in the International Seabed Authority as Cuba, an unprecedented surrender of U.S. sovereignty, independence of action and wealth.
Also this.
The treaty also created the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, with the power to decide all disputes and enforce its judgments. Of course, there is no guarantee that the United States would have even one judge on this 21-member international court, and it's reasonable to assume inherent bias against the United States by the anti-American countries whose representatives will make all decisions.
There can be no appeal from this tribunal's decisions, even though they would affect the sovereignty, security and economic interests of the United States. There is no restriction on the Tribunal's jurisdiction.
Administration lobbyists claim that the original problems with the treaty have been fixed. That is not believable because the text of the treaty can't be changed unilaterally.
Hey RW, read the last sentence. There goes your clause theory out the window.
Article 317
I had to read the whole thing up to that point to find it. Took six minutes. Not interested in reading in reading amateur commentary.
I can just imagine that 10 years from the time it passes there will be at least one UN inspector on every commercial boat and ship that’s underway. Probably some fool that the Captain has to receive permission from in order to avoid hitting another ship. Without the written permission he will lose his papers for unauthorized course changes.
Naturally the UN appointees on our military ships will either be Chinese or Russian.