Defense department has endorsed passage of UNCLOS because it secures global access to the oceans
In a 1996 report, the Department of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff set forth the major national security benefits of the Law of the Sea Convention.54 The foremost benefit is global access to the oceans throughout the world, including areas adjacent to coastal states, which include the contiguous zone and the EEZ.55 These interests extend to U.S. security and economic interests in global high seas freedoms, including freedom of navigation, overflight, and telecommunications.56 Benefits also include a stable, comprehensive, and nearly universally-accepted Convention, modified by the 1994 Agreement, to promote public order and free access to the oceans and the airspace above it.57
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Top defense officials, including the current and all former Chiefs of Naval Operations, have lined up to publicly support U.S. accession to UNCLOS. In addition, the Defense Department has repeatedly endorsed ratification in numerous studies and planning documents.
Related Quotes:- Top defense officials including all current and former Chief of Naval Operations support ratification of UNCLOS
- Military leadership has been overwhelmingly behind accession to UNCLOS
- Defense department has endorsed passage of UNCLOS because it secures global access to the oceans
- Defense department has consistently advocated accession to UNCLOS as critical to U.S. Interests
- U.S. military leadership has carefully examined the implications of UNCLOS and have endorsed ratification
- Every assessment from U.S. military and intelligence leaders has supported ratification of UNCLOS as in the national interest of the U.S.
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The Law of the Sea Convention is the bedrock legal instrument for public order in the world’s oceans. It codifies, in a manner that only binding treaty law can, the navigation and overflight rights, and high seas freedoms that are essential for the global strategic mobility of U.S. Armed Forces, including:
Keywords:Related Quotes:- UNCLOS promotes U.S. freedom of navigation in three ways
- On balance, gains from freedom of navigation rights outweigh costs of UNCLOS
- Defense department has endorsed passage of UNCLOS because it secures global access to the oceans
- U.S. should join UNCLOS to protect four critical rights that ensure freedom of navigation
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Parent Arguments:Supporting Arguments:- U.S. Navy's freedom of navigation is continually challenged by excessive claims
- Freedom of Navigation program is not a long-term viable solution to address excessive claims
- Freedom of navigation is critical to U.S. leadership and economy
- U.S. will be able to challenge excessive claims more effectively as a party to UNCLOS