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The Appurtenance of Internal Waters to the Land Domain : a proposal to resolve the ambiguity of Article 7(3) of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea

Hanna Kureemun
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The exact position in space of the meeting between sea and land takes legally the form of a line, namely the baseline. Although customary international law has early developed the idea that the territorial sea is appurtenant to the coastal State’s land territory, nothing has been settled whether internal waters are also appurtenant to the land territory. ‘Internal waters’ is the character that the drawing of baselines for the measurement of the breadth of the territorial sea attributes to the waters situated within these lines. Article 7(3) of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea requires that internal waters resulting from straight baselines be ‘sufficiently closely linked to the land domain’ to be subject to that particular regime. The paper suggests that such a link derives from the notion of ‘appurtenance’, which it elaborates, in both senses of being an ‘accessory’ of the land territory and its ‘belonging’.

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hal-04586219 , version 1 (24-05-2024)

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Hanna Kureemun. The Appurtenance of Internal Waters to the Land Domain : a proposal to resolve the ambiguity of Article 7(3) of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. Neptunus, 2023, 29 (3), pp.18. ⟨hal-04586219⟩
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