03-25-2007, 02:01 PM
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A/CN.4/143Juridical Regime of Historic waters including historic bays - Study prepared by theSecretariat
Topic:Juridical régime of historic waters, including historic bays
Extract from the Yearbook of the International Law Commission:- 1962 , vol. II
38. In summary, the concept of "historic waters" has its root in the historic fact that States through the ages claimed and maintained sovereignty over maritime areas which they considered vital to them without paying much attention to divergent and changing opinions about what general international law might prescribe with respect to the delimitation of the territorial sea. This fact had to be taken into consideration when attempts were made to codify the rules of international law in this field, i.e., to reduce the sometimes obscure and contested rules of customary law to clear and generally acceptable written rules. It was felt that States could not be expected to accept rules which would deprive them of considerable maritime areas over which they had hitherto had sovereignty.
http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/documentation/e...h/a_cn4_143.pdf
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A map showing the present channel alignment and intl. medial line is attached.
This alignment should be CHANGED immediately since the choice of the alignment is arbitrary, apparently under US pressure which does NOT recognize historic waters and without evaluating scientifically the impact of a tsunami if this alignment is implemented.
"The mood is grim among the fishermen of Rameswaram, Mukundarayapuram, Dhanushkodi, and Pamban in Ramanathapuram district and Thracepuram in Tuticorin district. If a substantial number of them firmly oppose the project today, it is because they fear that once the canal is a reality, it will become an unofficial boundary line on the sea between India and Sri Lanka. The catch is that it is in the Sri Lankan waters that fish thrive. The canal would seal their entry into those waters for fishing, they fear. "
Arulanandan is right.
[quote] At Pamban, some distance away, U. Arulanandam, president, Singaravelar Fishermen's Forum, calls it "an anti-fishermen project" that will "destroy a hard-working community". Like other fishermen, he suspects that the project is being implemented to enforce the international boundary line in the waters. "They are executing a scheme at a cost of Rs.2,000 crores to draw a border and tell us that we cannot cross the border to fish. This scheme will destroy the fishing community," he says.[unquote]
http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2201/sto...14005902400.htm
A/CN.4/143Juridical Regime of Historic waters including historic bays - Study prepared by theSecretariat
Topic:Juridical régime of historic waters, including historic bays
Extract from the Yearbook of the International Law Commission:- 1962 , vol. II
38. In summary, the concept of "historic waters" has its root in the historic fact that States through the ages claimed and maintained sovereignty over maritime areas which they considered vital to them without paying much attention to divergent and changing opinions about what general international law might prescribe with respect to the delimitation of the territorial sea. This fact had to be taken into consideration when attempts were made to codify the rules of international law in this field, i.e., to reduce the sometimes obscure and contested rules of customary law to clear and generally acceptable written rules. It was felt that States could not be expected to accept rules which would deprive them of considerable maritime areas over which they had hitherto had sovereignty.
http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/documentation/e...h/a_cn4_143.pdf
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http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2201/ima...14005902402.jpg
A map showing the present channel alignment and intl. medial line is attached.
This alignment should be CHANGED immediately since the choice of the alignment is arbitrary, apparently under US pressure which does NOT recognize historic waters and without evaluating scientifically the impact of a tsunami if this alignment is implemented.
"The mood is grim among the fishermen of Rameswaram, Mukundarayapuram, Dhanushkodi, and Pamban in Ramanathapuram district and Thracepuram in Tuticorin district. If a substantial number of them firmly oppose the project today, it is because they fear that once the canal is a reality, it will become an unofficial boundary line on the sea between India and Sri Lanka. The catch is that it is in the Sri Lankan waters that fish thrive. The canal would seal their entry into those waters for fishing, they fear. "
Arulanandan is right.
[quote] At Pamban, some distance away, U. Arulanandam, president, Singaravelar Fishermen's Forum, calls it "an anti-fishermen project" that will "destroy a hard-working community". Like other fishermen, he suspects that the project is being implemented to enforce the international boundary line in the waters. "They are executing a scheme at a cost of Rs.2,000 crores to draw a border and tell us that we cannot cross the border to fish. This scheme will destroy the fishing community," he says.[unquote]
http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2201/sto...14005902400.htm