TREATY ON THE PROHIBITION OF THE EMPLACEMENT OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND OTHER WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION ON THE SEA-BED AND THE OCEAN FLOOR AND IN THE SUBSOIL THEREOF (SEABED TREATY) — Rwanda law | Esheria

TREATY ON THE PROHIBITION OF THE EMPLACEMENT OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND OTHER WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION ON THE SEA-BED AND THE OCEAN FLOOR AND IN THE SUBSOIL THEREOF (SEABED TREATY)

States Parties must not place certain weapons or related facilities on the seabed/ocean floor beyond the defined sea-bed zone, and must not help or encourage others to do so.

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Rwanda
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States Parties must not place certain weapons or related facilities on the seabed/ocean floor beyond the defined sea-bed zone, and must not help or encourage others to do so. The treaty says the outer limit of the sea-bed zone follows the twelve-mile outer limit from the referenced convention and must be measured under that convention and international law. State Parties may verify compliance by observation, but the observation must not interfere with the activities being observed. This provision says the treaty must not be interpreted as supporting or prejudicing a State Party’s position about existing international conventions, rights or claims, or recognition of rights or claims by other states. The Parties to the Treaty must continue negotiations in good faith on further disarmament measures to prevent an arms race on the sea-bed, ocean floor, and subsoil.