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The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ( UNCLOS ), also called the Law of the Sea Convention or the Law of the Sea Treaty, is an international agreement that establishes a legal framework for all marine and maritime activities. As of May 2023, 168 countries and the European Union are parties. The convention resulted from the third ...
10 nmi: Current national airspace claimed by Greece. 12 nmi: Extent of territorial waters and national airspace defined as a legal right by UNCLOS, to which Turkey is not a signatory. The Aegean dispute is a set of interrelated controversies between Greece and Turkey over sovereignty and related rights in the region of the Aegean Sea. This set ...
The Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage is a treaty that was adopted on 2 November 2001 by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). [1] The convention is intended to protect "all traces of human existence having a cultural, historical or archaeological ...
Claimed Exclusive Economic Zone of Greece. Greece forms the southernmost part of the Balkan peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea. It includes many small islands which vary between 1,200 and 6,000 in the Aegean Sea and the Ionian Sea. [2] The largest islands are Crete, Euboea, Lesbos, Rhodes and Chios . Greece's EEZ is bordered to the west by ...
Primum non nocere. Primum non nocere ( Classical Latin: [ˈpriːmũː noːn nɔˈkeːrɛ]) is a Latin phrase that means " first, do no harm ". The phrase is sometimes recorded as primum nil nocere. [1] [better source needed]
Law of the sea is a body of international law governing the rights and duties of states in maritime environments. [1] It concerns matters such as navigational rights, sea mineral claims, and coastal waters jurisdiction. While drawn from a number of international customs, treaties, and agreements, modern law of the sea derives largely from the ...
The Agreement has been ratified by 152 parties (all of which are parties to the Convention), which includes 151 states (148 United Nations member states plus the UN Observer state Palestine, as well as the Cook Islands and Niue) and the European Union. [3] An additional three UN member states (Egypt, Sudan, USA) have signed, but not ratified ...
The culture of Greece has evolved over thousands of years, beginning in Minoan and later in Mycenaean Greece, continuing most notably into Classical Greece, while influencing the Roman Empire and its successor the Byzantine Empire. Other cultures and states such as the Frankish states, the Ottoman Empire, the Venetian Republic and Bavarian and ...