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WATCHING THE WORLD: Little relief for tankers

06/16/2008
Oil tankers plying the high seas are unlikely to benefit much from the recently passed UN Security Council resolution 1816 (200). Why not? As we suggested several weeks ago, other countries around the globe saw the resolution—sponsored by the US, France, Britain, and Panama—as opening the way to interventionist policies (OGJ, May 12, 2008, p. 36).Under terms of the resolution, which was unanimously adopted on June 2, the Security Council decided that the states cooperating with Somalia’s transitional government would be allowed, for a period of 6 months, to enter the country’s territorial waters and use “all necessary means” to repress acts of piracy and ...
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