{"id":236653,"date":"2023-06-05T12:01:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T11:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=236653"},"modified":"2023-06-01T10:24:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T09:24:37","slug":"international-day-of-the-oceans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/06\/international-day-of-the-oceans\/","title":{"rendered":"International Day of the Oceans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Progress on Asian Maritime Delimitations Needed<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

8 June has been designated by the United Nations General Assembly as the International Day of the Oceans to highlight the important role that the U.N. played in the creation of the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention. (UNCLOS)<\/p>\n

However, there are maritime delimitation disputes that are currently dangerous and require good-faith negotiations to prevent increased tensions.\u00a0 The maritime delimitations within the South China Sea are particularly sensitive. Maritime delimitations can be heated up by governments and cooled off at will when other political issues require attention.\u00a0 Currently, we are in a “heating up” stage between China and Taiwan, China and Vietnam, China and Japan, and China and the Philippines.\u00a0 The China – U.S.A. tensions also color the South China Sea issues. (1)<\/p>\n

There are both economic and geostrategic aspects to these tensions, and both need to be addressed if good- faith negotiations are to lead to cooperation for the benefit of all.\u00a0 \u00a0Progress in maritime geology and predictions of metal shortages in the decades ahead have made seabed mining a concern for governments such as China, Japan, and South Korea.\u00a0 Minerals such as copper, gold and other industrial minerals as well as oil-natural gas are thought to be available through seabed mining in this Pacific area. The International Day of the Oceans can serve as the start of a strong mobilization of voices calling for good-faith negotiations and for a vision of cooperation among the States of the South China Sea. (2)<\/p>\n

Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

(1) For a good overview of the history with maps of the disputed areas, see Douglas Johnston and Mark Valencia: Pacific Ocean Boundary Problems<\/em> (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1991)<\/p>\n

(2) For a useful approach to adjudication of delimitation issues, see A.O. Adede: The System for Settlement of Disputes Under the UNCLOS\u00a0<\/em> (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1987)<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Ren\u00e9 Wadlow is a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>. He is President of the Association of World Citizens, an international peace organization with consultative status with ECOSOC, the United Nations organ facilitating international cooperation and problem-solving in economic and social issues, and editor of <\/em>Transnational Perspectives.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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