The Rights Accorded the Landlocked Countries in the Law of Sea Convention 1982
Name: Keisha Williams
Ques: Land-locked States shall have the right to participate, on an equitable basis, in the exploitation of an appropriate part of the surplus of the living resources of the exclusive economic zones of coastal States of the same subregion or region, taking into account the relevant economic and geographical circumstances of all the States concerned and in conformity with the provisions of this article and of articles 61 and 62-Discuss.
GT62C: The Law and Politics of the Sea
Lecturer: Hazel Jones
The term landlocked as oppose to geographically disadvantage state gives rise to no particular problem of definition, says Vasciannie. This is because, in both law and geography, it connotes a state which has no sea coast and which must therefore rely on one or more neighbouring countries for access to the sea. It can also be defined as a country entirely enclosed by land or whose only coastlines lie on a closed sea, eg The Caspian Sea. By this criterion, according to United Nations report on landlocked States, there are 48 landlocked countries in existence and of the major landmasses; only North America, Australia and Antarctica do not have a landlocked country inside their respective continents.
Historically, being landlocked has always been regard as a disadvantaged position. The country is cut off from access to seaborne trade which even today, makes up a large percentage of international trade and as also cuts off the country from important sea resources such as fishing. The lack of territorial access to the sea, remoteness and isolation from world market, high transit costs and the inability to exploit the resources of the seas, imposes serious constraint on the overall socio-economic development of landlocked countries. For this reason, the status of being landlocked does not appear just a superficial aspect of a country’s geography. The economic performance of landlocked countries reflects the direct and indirect impact of geographic
Ques: Land-locked States shall have the right to participate, on an equitable basis, in the exploitation of an appropriate part of the surplus of the living resources of the exclusive economic zones of coastal States of the same subregion or region, taking into account the relevant economic and geographical circumstances of all the States concerned and in conformity with the provisions of this article and of articles 61 and 62-Discuss.
GT62C: The Law and Politics of the Sea
Lecturer: Hazel Jones
The term landlocked as oppose to geographically disadvantage state gives rise to no particular problem of definition, says Vasciannie. This is because, in both law and geography, it connotes a state which has no sea coast and which must therefore rely on one or more neighbouring countries for access to the sea. It can also be defined as a country entirely enclosed by land or whose only coastlines lie on a closed sea, eg The Caspian Sea. By this criterion, according to United Nations report on landlocked States, there are 48 landlocked countries in existence and of the major landmasses; only North America, Australia and Antarctica do not have a landlocked country inside their respective continents.
Historically, being landlocked has always been regard as a disadvantaged position. The country is cut off from access to seaborne trade which even today, makes up a large percentage of international trade and as also cuts off the country from important sea resources such as fishing. The lack of territorial access to the sea, remoteness and isolation from world market, high transit costs and the inability to exploit the resources of the seas, imposes serious constraint on the overall socio-economic development of landlocked countries. For this reason, the status of being landlocked does not appear just a superficial aspect of a country’s geography. The economic performance of landlocked countries reflects the direct and indirect impact of geographic