The United Nations and regulations on the Sea

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State borders are often a source of conflict, as well as being permeable and changing. Following Fontana  we observe in historical perspective, considering the period of the Cold War, we will notice the constant risk of imposing barriers on the delimitation of an area or prohibitions on the transposition of some of them. Perhaps the example of the Berlin Wall is a paradigm of that time. And what can we say about maritime borders? Evidently it was also a potential source of confrontation. It is for this reason that rules on the use of the seas were established, with the intention of establishing limits for possible conflict between States.

Member states of the United Nations established the rules for the possession, exploration, use and research of the seas . From the United Nations Convention arises what could be called the Law of the Sea as a documentary source, which, in its articles, not counting the annexes, sought to break down the rules for the Fax Lists use and protection of the seas and oceans , as well as the seabed. marine and its subsoil. From the beginning, it was established that the objective of the regulations was to ensure a fair and equitable economic opportunity for countries, as well as to create conditions for the development of people.



It can be read in the preamble of the Convention: “Bearing in mind that the achievement of these objectives will contribute to the realization of a just and equitable international economic order that takes into account the interests and needs of all humanity and, in particular, the interests and special needs of developing countries, whether coastal or landlocked. However, some aspects of the regulations ended up generating certain instability between the States , highlighting Article , which deals with the Continental Shelf. The corresponding limits were established for each State, but it was made clear that the borders.