The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: hearing before the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, May 12, 2004

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 2004 - 130 páginas
 

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Página 117 - Any illegal acts of violence, detention or any act of depredation, committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or a private aircraft, and directed; a) On the high seas, against another ship or aircraft, or against persons or property on board such ship or aircraft; b) Against a ship, aircraft, persons or property in a place outside the jurisdiction of any State; 2.
Página 118 - Except where acts of interference derive from powers conferred by treaty, a warship which encounters a foreign merchant ship on the high seas is not justified in boarding her unless there is reasonable ground...
Página 117 - Ships owned or operated by a State and used only on government commercial service shall, on the high seas, have complete immunity from the jurisdiction of any State other than the flag State.
Página 74 - Coastal State penalties for violations of fisheries laws and regulations in the exclusive economic zone may not include imprisonment, in the absence of agreements to the contrary by the States concerned, or any other form of corporal punishment.
Página 118 - ... to fly its flag. To this end, it may send a boat under the command of an officer to the suspected ship. If suspicion remains after the documents have been checked, it may proceed to a further examination on board the ship, which must be carried out with all possible consideration. 3. If the suspicions prove to be unfounded, and provided that the ship boarded has not committed any act justifying them, it shall be compensated for any loss or damage that may have been sustained.
Página 121 - Rocks which cannot sustain human habitation or economic life of their own shall have no exclusive economic zone or continental shelf.
Página 71 - Seventh, such a peace should enable all men to traverse the high seas and oceans without hindrance ; Eighth, they believe that all of the nations of the world, for realistic as well as spiritual reasons, must come to the abandonment of the use of force.
Página 102 - The preservation of the role of the United States as a leader in aeronautical and space science and technology and in the application thereof to the conduct of peaceful activities within and outside the atmosphere...
Página 117 - Any act of voluntary participation in the operation of a ship or of an aircraft with knowledge of facts making it a pirate ship or aircraft ; (3) Any act of inciting or of intentionally facilitating an act described in sub-paragraph 1 or sub-paragraph 2 of this article.
Página 118 - In the cases provided for in paragraph 1, the warship may proceed to verify the ship's right to fly its flag. To this end, it may send a boat under the command of an officer to the suspected ship. If suspicion remains after the documents have been checked, it may proceed...

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