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Least Developed Countries and the Law of the Sea: An Ocean of Opportunity
Document Summary:
Study on the relevance of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to the least developed countries.
"Various provisions of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµCLOS aim to make an important contribution towards addressing their economic challenges by providing exclusive access to ocean resources to the coastal States among them and by clarifying the legal situation of landlocked
States regarding access to and from the sea. Besides specific rights and benefits enshrined in the Convention for each of these groups of LDCs, there is also the prospect of economic benefits from deep-seabed mining and from contributions by coastal States that exploit resources of the continental shelf beyond the 200 nautical mile EEZ, in which case the Convention expressly asserts that the interests and needs of LDCs must be taken into account. It may be presumed that LDCs will be at the top of the list of beneficiaries once ISA is in a position to distribute these benefits on the basis of equitable sharing criteria."
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