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| India Protests US Navy's Transit Through its Exclusive Economic Zone |
| 2021-04-11 |
| [ENGLISH.AAWSAT] India protested to the United States for a navy vessel conducting a transit through its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) without consent, the foreign ministry said on Friday, in a rare row between the friendly navies of the two countries. The USS John Paul Jones "asserted navigational rights and freedoms," inside India’s EEZ in line with international law by sailing about 130 nautical miles (241 km) west of India’s Lakshadweep islands, the US Seventh Fleet said in a statement on Wednesday. But an Indian foreign ministry front man said in a statement that UN rules did not allow such passage without consent. "The Government of India’s stated position on the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Convention on the Law of the Sea is that the Convention does not authorize other States to carry out in the Exclusive Economic Zone and on the continental shelf, military exercises or maneuvers, in particular those involving the use of weapons or explosives, without the consent of the coastal state," the front man said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 One of their older Non-Aligned Nations bureaucrats in a snit? |
| Posted by: magpie 2021-04-11 21:17 |
| #4 If they go around the indian one, then they have to go around the Chinese one, i.e. The South China Sea. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2021-04-11 16:27 |
| #3 Freedom of Navigation. US recognizes 12NM territorial sea boundary. Maybe the Indians will get more respect if they ask the Chinese for permission anytime an Indian vessel sails in the South China sea. |
| Posted by: Zebulon Jugum1954 2021-04-11 14:02 |
| #2 sailing about 130 nautical miles (241 km) west of India’s Lakshadweep islands that would be in the Arabian Sea. We don't recognize that just like we don't recognize Chin's overreach |
| Posted by: Frank G 2021-04-11 13:59 |
| #1 Why on earth are we making India mad at us? What could possibly be the point? |
| Posted by: Tom 2021-04-11 13:37 |