Lying beyond a coastal state’s national jurisdiction in the sea is the deep seabed, known in international law as the Area (the complexities of the outer continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles is ...

The linkages between the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and IMO were explored during an event held on 28 November at IMO Headquarters to mark 40 years since the “Constitution ...

The final document of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) was adopted on April 30, 1982, after nine years of negotiations, and was opened for signature on December 10, 1982. A group of US ...

After ratifying the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), Vietnam has actively taken advantage of the legal document to protect its sovereignty and settle disputes in the East Sea.

China began its rapid naval expansion in the mid-1980s, initially prioritizing the immediate vicinities of East Asia and the Taiwan Strait. Today, its power projection capabilities have expanded ...

It gives me great pleasure to join you in this conference to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the opening for signature of UNCLOS. Just now, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi offered ...

In early February, the USS John S. McCain conducted a freedom of navigation operation in the South China Sea, the first under President Joseph Biden's administration. The ship cruised waters around ...

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has disputed a report posted on the website of the Chinese Embassy in Manila that claims that both the Philippines and China agree that the United Nations ...

On 3 February 2014, on the margins of the eighth session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals, the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, Office of Legal Affairs, ...

BEIJING -- The United States, one of the most vocal countries urging China to hew to arbitration in the South China Sea, is still an outlier to the UN Convention on the Law of the Seas (UNClOS) to ...

The 1995 United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement (UNFSA) is an implementing agreement to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) that aims at ensuring the long-term conservation ...