International waters
International waters is a body of water that does not belong to any single country. "International waters" is not a defined term in international law. It is an informal term.
The Convention on the High Seas 1958 defined "high seas" to mean "all parts of the sea that are not included in the territorial sea or in the internal waters of a State" and "no State may validly... subject any part of them to its sovereignty".[1]
Therefore "high seas" and "international waters" share a basic idea: that no country can own them.
International Waters Media
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The Río de la Plata basin gives sea access to landlocked Paraguay and Bolivia, and navigation is free for all international commercial ships.
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Komárno in Slovakia is an inland port on the Danube River which is an important international waterway.
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The Atlantic Ocean has the busiest ocean trade routes in the world.
Map showing the parties of the Barcelona Convention
References
- ↑ Text of CONVENTION ON THE HIGH SEAS Archived 2019-02-22 at the Wayback Machine (U.N.T.S. No. 6465, vol. 450, pp. 82–103)
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