International waters

Maritime Zones under International Law

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[1] 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".[2]

Therefore "high seas" and "international waters" share a basic idea: that no country can own them.

References

  1. ↑ One of sources of United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
  2. ↑ 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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