[Calpernia]

I still don’t believe we are being given all the information on LOST. I just opened the UN ratification documents and the U.S.A. ratified LOST August 1996

http://www.un.org/Depts/los/reference_files/status2007.pdf

[processing please hold]

Thank you for that link. Bookmarked.

I lost hundreds of bookmarks on the un. We had a power failure a week or so ago and I lost everything.

I'm building them back up.

We aren't being given all the info. We're being fed a bill of goods.

Lugar, I despise that basturd.

[Calpernia]

Nope, the article posted here is propaganda.

The Clinton Administration RATIFIED LOST. Not only did they ratify it, a footnote was added so it wouldn’t go into affect until December 2001!

WHY?

Here, read it yourself:

UN ratification documents and the U.S.A. ratified LOST August 1996

http://www.un.org/Depts/los/reference_files/status2007.pdf

The Bush Administration has been trying to dispute or recapitulate the Treaty.

http://www.un.org/Depts/los/settlement_of_disputes/choice_procedure.htm

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Declaration:

“In accordance with article 30 (4) of the Agreement, the Government of the United States of America declares that it chooses a special arbitral tribunal to be constituted in accordance with Annex VIII of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 for the settlement of disputes pursuant to Part VIII of the Agreement.”

Someone has been flaming this LOST story incorrectly. I would like to know why.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Looks like we merely ratified a piece of LOST related to “straddling fish stocks” (which I assume means fish stocks shared by two or more adjoining countries) and highly migratory fish stocks. I suppose we could have simply pursued treaties with countries that we share a body of water with instead, but that’s simply too much to ask of our towering intellectual giants.