International Legal Status of the Arctic
Abstract
The research explores the legal status of the Arctic. The article presents an analysis of legislations of different countries that have claimed Arctic territories and territories of the continental shelf as theirs (Russia, Canada, USA, Denmark, and Norway). The article also analyses international agreements aimed at settlement of the disputes over the Arctic. The interest in the Arctic appeared only in the twentieth century. That interest primarily relates to the large amounts of resources in the depths of the Arctic. Thus, the issue of legally-based ownership of the Arctic territories and their belonging to any country is a contemporary issue.References
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*** Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Central Executive Committee “On the declaration of the lands and islands in the Arctic Ocean as the USSR territory” (1926), electronic stock of the law and the normative-technical documentation. Available at: http://docs.cntd.ru/document/901761796
*** Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet “On the continental shelf of the USSR” (1968). website of the Russian legislation. Available at: http://russia.bestpravo.ru/ussr/data03/tex15345.htm
*** Russia will draw border in the Arctic. 2008. In Russian Observer, online newspaper. Available at: http://www.rus-obr.ru/days/713
*** The Act of the USSR “On the state border of the USSR” 1982. In the Consultant Plus, online legislative database. Available at: http://base.consultant.ru/cons/cgi/online.cgi?req=doc;base=ESU;n=1534
*** The Ilulissat Declaration 2008. Norway Government website. Available at: https://www.regjeringen.no/ globalassets/upload/ud/080525_arctic_ocean_conference-_outcome.pdf
*** The UN Commission included an enclave in the Sea of Okhotsk in the Russian continental shelf (2014, March 14), United Nations website. Available at: http://www.un.org/russian/news/story.asp?NewsID =21305#.VpjdR09Piyc
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*** United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982. United Nations website, Available at: http://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/unclos_e.pdf
*** University of British Columbia. 2002. The Canadian Yearbook of International Law.Volume 39. Vancouver: UBC Press.
Published
2016-11-10
How to Cite
KUZNETCOV, Aleksandr Vasilyevich.
International Legal Status of the Arctic.
Journal of Environmental Management and Tourism, [S.l.], v. 7, n. 3, p. 393-398, nov. 2016.
ISSN 2068-7729.
Available at: <https://journals.aserspublishing.eu/jemt/article/view/348>. Date accessed: 20 apr. 2024.
Section
Journal of Environmental Management and Tourism
Keywords
The Arctic; continental shelf; international legal status; national legislation; international agreements; sector theory; disputes
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