Critics assail Law of the Sea treaty

[GreatAmerican]

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In their July 30 op-ed, “Opportunity on the Oceans,” Lawrence S. Eagleburger and John Norton Moore made strong arguments for U.S. ratification of the Law of the Sea Convention.</p>

<p>The United States needs only to look north to see encroaching claims on Arctic waters, which are becoming increasingly important as global warming makes them more navigable. Last week, Vladimir Putin sent a presidential envoy to plant a Russian flag on the sea bottom under the North Pole, and Canada is building a fleet of icebreakers and patrol vessels to enforce its claim to the Northwest Passage…

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