International law of the resources of the sea
1981; Elsevier BV; Volume: 6; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/0302-184x(81)90026-3
ISSN1872-776X
Autores Tópico(s)Coastal and Marine Management
ResumoAmong the groups attempting to maximize their interests at UNCLOS III was the Group of Land-locked and Geographically Disadvantaged States, countries with no seacoast at all or a coast that for some reason did not enable them to benefit from an exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Over 50 such countries, quite diverse in most other respects, tried to enhance their limited bargaining strength through group action. While the land-locked states alone had had some successes at the first United Nations Conference on Transit Trade of Land-locked Countries, conditions were different at UNCLOS III, and even in coalition with ‘geographically disadvantaged’ countries their successes were more limited. This was due at least partly to the inability of the Group at any time to constitute a realistic ‘blocking third’ of Conference participants in order to prevent adoption of Treaty articles by a two-thirds vote, and also because the Group primarily comprised states with very little political power or influence. As a result, the modest concessions made to them in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea may in the future give them some leverage when bargaining with other countries for access to the sea and its resources, but they will still have to rely primarily on good relations in general with their coastal neighbors.
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