Sentence examples for unclos of from inspiring English sources

At the Asean Regional Forum held on July 23 in Hanoi U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared that the U.S. has vital interests in the region and in the peaceful settlement (in accordance with the law in this case, UNCLOS) of the claims to the islands and islets that make up the Paracels and the Spratlys in the South China Sea.

"Under Article 76 of Unclos, the issue of the extended continental shelf is not something resolved by power or politics," Mr. Byers said.

Timor-Leste had then challenged the treaty, invoking the Vienna Convention's principle that negotiations should take place in "good faith". Equally significantly, in April 2016 the government of Timor-Leste initiated compulsory conciliation proceedings under unclos with the aim of concluding permanent maritime boundaries with Australia.

Pacific governments now hope to update the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (unclos) through talks on a new agreement on conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity in areas beyond national jurisdictions.

To add credibility to these moves, the United States should ratify the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos), which has governed other sovereign maritime states for the last 16 years.

In 2013, The Philippines filed an ongoing lawsuit at the UN International Court of Arbitration, questioning the legality of China's territorial claims and its development of tidal reefs that are only periodically above water, which it alleges violates the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos).

The bases for the control of the validity of the Directive were the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ("UNCLOS") and the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships of 1973 and its Protocol of 1978 ("Marpol 73/78").

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, a court under the Unclos umbrella, might serve as yet another arbiter of the Senkaku/Diaoyu dispute.

There are other legal avenues for the claimants, and Beijing said earlier this month it plans to claim the Diaoyus under provisions in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, or Unclos.

Aside from sharing the proceeds of undersea resources, the key feature of cmats was a fifty-year moratorium on boundary negotiations in favor of a series of revenue-sharing agreements, known as "provisional arrangements" under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, or unclos.

In that case, Australia urged China to follow the rule of law, as represented by the decision of the tribunal formed under unclos.