• Innocent passage is a concept in the law of the sea that allows for a vessel to pass through the territorial sea (and certain grandfathered internal waters)...
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    confers any right of innocent passage through such a waterway.... [Secondly]... a right of innocent passage is not a right of free passage for any cargo at...
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  • passage) into ASLP. The main difference between the transit passage and ASLP is that in case of ASLP the ship can opt instead for an innocent passage...
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  • of innocent passage, right of transit passage, right of archipelagic sea lanes passage and freedom of the high seas. The right of innocent passage allows...
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  • passage regime; geographic straits where a high seas corridor remains. The territorial waters part of such strait is governed by the innocent passage...
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  • international waters. Introduction of transit passage in UNCLOS III made the right of innocent passage in the straits relatively unimportant due to sheer...
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    when American cruiser USS Yorktown tried to exercise the right of innocent passage through Soviet territorial waters in the Black Sea during the Cold...
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    the legal regime of transit passage (Strait of Gibraltar, Dover Strait, Strait of Hormuz). The regime of innocent passage applies in straits used for...
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    Foreign vessels have right of innocent passage through archipelagic waters, but archipelagic states may limit innocent passage to designated sea lanes. Contiguous...
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    state responsibility for damages at sea, as well as the doctrine of innocent passage. A contentious case, it was the first of any type heard by the ICJ...
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    contrary, foreign vessels have no right of passage within internal waters, and this lack of right to innocent passage is the key difference between internal...
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    waters, but the state must allow innocent passage through them. However, archipelagic states can limit innocent passage to designated sea lanes within these...
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    USS Yorktown and the destroyer USS Caron tried to exercise the right of innocent passage under international law through Soviet territorial waters in the Black...
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    12 nmi (22 km) and declaring that it would recognize only transit by innocent passage through the newly expanded area. In July 1972, Oman also expanded its...
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    decision that the Straits of Tiran would be closed. The right of innocent, maritime passage must be preserved for all nations." The Saudi–Egypt Causeway,...
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    venerate the Holy Innocents as the first Christian martyrs, but modern scholarship finds no evidence that it happened outside the passages in Matthew. The...
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    trade with it." Thus, there was a right to innocent passage over land and a similar right of innocent passage at sea. Grotius observed that unlike land...
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  • Statement on Uniform Acceptance of Rules of International Law Governing Innocent Passage. It made it clear that the text of the 1982 United Nations Convention...
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    On 12 February 1988, while Yorktown was exercising the "right of innocent passage" through Soviet territorial waters, the Soviet Burevestnik-class frigate...
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    undisputed territorial waters have been not been crossed except in cases of innocent passage. As of 2024[update], the PLAN is the second-largest navy in the world...
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  • mark) of a state; both military and civilian foreign ships are allowed innocent passage through these waters despite the sea being within the state's sovereignty...
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    decision that the Straits of Tiran would be closed. The right of innocent, maritime passage must be preserved for all nations. On 30 May, Jordan and Egypt...
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    through the strait do so under the regime of transit passage, rather than the more limited innocent passage allowed in most territorial waters. Therefore, a...
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    travel and to trade required (1) a right of innocent passage over land, and (2) a similar right of innocent passage at sea. The sea, however, was more like...
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  • No. Title Directed by Written by Original air date 1 "Innocent Passage" Patrick Lau Russell Lewis 4 January 1998 (1998-01-04) 2 "Refuge" Patrick Lau Tim...
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    (2001) "The Bridge on the Strait of Messina: 'Lowering' the Right of Innocent Passage?" International and Comparative Law Quarterly 50: 411 ff. "From Rome...
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    Foreign ships, both civilian and military, are allowed the right of innocent passage through the territorial waters of a littoral state subject to conditions...
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  • traverse the straits, regulated by the general international rule of innocent passage through international straits and the Royal Ordinance of 1976. It had...
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  • decision that the Straits of Tiran would be closed. The right of innocent, maritime passage must be preserved for all nations. According to Szabo, many commentators...
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    (2001). "The Bridge on the Strait of Messina: 'Lowering' the Right of Innocent Passage?" International and Comparative Law Quarterly 50: 411–419. Vinci, Attilio...
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