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Appendix 9 



Conventions on the Law of the Sea Adopted by 

 United Nations Conference at Geneva, 1958 



{All conventions contain similar procedural articles for signing, ratification, and 

 revision. They come into jorce on the thirtieth day jollotving the deposit of the twenty- 

 second instrument of ratification or accession with the United Nations. In the following 

 reprint of the conventions these procedural articles are omitted.) 



A. CONVENTION ON THE TERRITORIAL SEA AND THE 

 CONTIGUOUS ZONE ' 



The States Parties to this Convention, 

 Have agreed as follows: 



PART I: TERRITORIAL SEA 



Section I. General 

 Article i 



1. The sovereignty of a State extends, 

 beyond its land territory and its internal 

 waters, to a belt of sea adjacent to its coast, 

 described as the territorial sea. 



2. This sovereignty is exercised subject to 

 the provisions of these articles and to other 

 rules of international law. 



Article 2 



The sovereignty of a coastal State extends 

 to the air space over the territorial sea as 

 well as to its bed and subsoil. 



Section II. Limits of the Territorial Sea 



Article 3 



Except where otherwise provided in these 

 articles, the normal baseline for measuring 

 the breadth of the territorial sea is the low- 

 water line along the coast as marked on 



I. Adopted Apr. 27, 1958 (U.N. Doc. A/Conf. 

 i3/L.5a). 



large-scale charts officially recognized by the 

 coastal State. 



Article 4 



1. In localities where the coastline is 

 1 deeply indented and cut into, or if there is 



a fringe of islands along the coast in its 

 immediate vicinity, the method of straight 

 baselines joining appropriate points may be 

 employed in drawing the baseline from 

 which the breadth of the territorial sea is 

 measured, 



2. The drawing of such baselines must 

 not depart to any appreciable extent from 

 the general direction of the coast, and the 

 sea areas lying within the lines must be 

 sufficiently closely linked to the land do- 

 main to be subject to the regime of internal 

 waters. 



3. Baselines shall not be drawn to and 

 from low-tide elevations, unless lighthouses 

 or similar installations which are perma- 

 nently above sea level have been built on 

 them. 



4. Where the method of straight baselines 

 is applicable under the provisions of para- 

 graph I, account may be taken, in deter- 

 mining particular baselines, of economic in- 

 terests peculiar to the region concerned, the 



