High Seas
Two thirds of the world’s oceans do not belong to any nation, and these areas of the planet have been open to exploitation from all and sundry.
For ten years the United Nations member states have been attempting to agree on a treaty to protect the high seas and on Saturday 5th March, they came to an agreement.
Conference president Rena Lee, from Singapore, emotionally announced that the, ‘ship has reached the shore’. Two whole days, working through the night, an exhausted audience stood up and clapped.
The previous treaty was signed in 1982 called the UN Convention of the Sea.
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