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Lively debate on interpreting laws at maritime conference
UN Convention on the Law of the Sea not product of the West or ambiguous, says Tommy Koh
- Lim Min Zhang
- The Straits Times
Differing interpretations of the international law of the sea took centre stage at a maritime conference yesterday involving academics and navy chiefs from around the world.
Ambassador-at-Large Tommy Koh had a spirited exchange with a Chinese academic over whether the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos) had involved input from Asian…
During the 6th International Maritime Security Conference, Chinese researcher, Captain (Retired) Tian Shichen, had suggested that there was a distinction between warships and…