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| Santa
Domingo Declaration |
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Status of agreement
| Date of adoption |
9 June 1972 |
| Place of adoption |
Santa
Domingo, Dominican Republic |
| Entry into force |
n/a |
| Authentic text(s) |
English, French,
Spanish |
The Declaration of Santa
Domingo was the last of three declarations made by Latin American States in the
early 1970s, the others being the
Lima and
Montevideo Declarations, setting out
a regional position on the law of the sea and the jurisdictional rights of
coastal States. The effect of these
three multilateral declarations was to demonstrate the almost universal
rejection by South America of the traditional doctrine of a three-mile
territorial sea.
The Santa Domingo Declaration
was adopted by ten Latin American States - namely Columbia, Costa Rica,
Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela
- on 9 June 1972. It set out the position of these States at the outset of the
negotiations at the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea. It
dealt with most areas considered by the Conference, including the territorial
sea (which was recognized as valid up to 12 miles); and the "patrimonial
sea", which accorded coastal states sovereign rights over the renewable and
non renewable natural resources up to 200 miles; as well as other matters,
including the continental shelf, international seabed, the high seas, marine
pollution and regional cooperation. The declaration preserved the traditional
High Seas rights of navigation, overflight and the laying of submarine cables
and pipelines. It is now only of historical interest.
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