The Independent Order
Roleplay => Diplomacy and Events => International Organisations => Topic started by: DaveIronside on August 28, 2017, 08:52:27 PM
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The Fair Seas Concordat is the rules governing territorial sovreignty over the oceans, it also establishes rules of fair passage and navigation. We use the real life United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, a full copy of which can be found here (http://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/convention_overview_convention.htm)
This is a summary of the document.
* Coastal States exercise sovereignty over their territorial sea which they have the right to establish its breadth up to a limit not to exceed 12 nautical miles; foreign vessels are allowed "innocent passage" through those waters;
* Ships and aircraft of all countries are allowed "transit passage" through straits used for international navigation; States bordering the straits can regulate navigational and other aspects of passage;
* Archipelagic States, made up of a group or groups of closely related islands and interconnecting waters, have sovereignty over a sea area enclosed by straight lines drawn between the outermost points of the islands; the waters between the islands are declared archipelagic waters where States may establish sea lanes and air routes in which all other States enjoy the right of archipelagic passage through such designated sea lanes;
* Coastal States have sovereign rights in a 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ) with respect to natural resources and certain economic activities, and exercise jurisdiction over marine science research and environmental protection;
* All other States have freedom of navigation and overflight in the EEZ, as well as freedom to lay submarine cables and pipelines;
* Coastal States have sovereign rights over the continental shelf (the national area of the seabed) for exploring and exploiting it; the shelf can extend at least 200 nautical miles from the shore, and more under specified circumstances;
* All States enjoy the traditional freedoms of navigation, overflight, scientific research and fishing on the high seas; they are obliged to adopt, or cooperate with other States in adopting, measures to manage and conserve living resources;
* The limits of the territorial sea, the exclusive economic zone and continental shelf of islands are determined in accordance with rules applicable to land territory, but rocks which could not sustain human habitation or economic life of their own would have no economic zone or continental shelf;
* Land-locked States have the right of access to and from the sea and enjoy freedom of transit through the territory of transit States;
* States are bound to prevent and control marine pollution and are liable for damage caused by violation of their international obligations to combat such pollution;
* All marine scientific research in the EEZ and on the continental shelf is subject to the consent of the coastal State, but in most cases they are obliged to grant consent to other States when the research is to be conducted for peaceful purposes and fulfils specified criteria;
Current Signatories
The First Empire of Rokkenjima
The Kingdom of Dartfordia
The Kingdom of East Moreland
The Holy Empire of Achkaerin
The Empire of Revana
The Odinist Republic of Nya Aland
The Republic of Nueva Ardia
The Duchy of Aquitaine
The Commonwealth of the Unified Iwi
The Ecclesiastical State
The Confederate States of Cascadia
The Heyran Republic
The Empire of Quintelia
The Federation of Muneski
The Six Dukedoms of Bakkermaya
The Empire of Krimeon
The Kingdom of Tytor
The Diarchy of Hassfurt
The Royal Confederation of Swastria
The Empire Of Kindricks
The Commonwealth of Soleimani
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Full Name of Country/Region: The Ecclesiastical State
Representative Signing: Pope Peter II
Continent: Albion
First Language: Latin
Second Language: Italian
Additional Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese, English, German, Polish
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Full Name of Country/Region: The Republic of Saheristan
Representative Signing: President Khalid Amin Ashkan
Continent: Cotf Aranye
First Language: Saheri
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Full Name of Country/Region: Confederate States of Cascadia
Representative Signing: Premier Minerva Todd
Continent: Cotf Aranye
First Language: Cascadian ((Canadian English))
Second Language:
Additional Languages:
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Full Name of Country/Region: The Kingdom of Weremark
Representative Signing: King Dagmund Altberg
Continent: Cotf Aranye
First Language: Werman (http://nswiki.org/index.php?title=Werman_language)
Second Language: English
Additional Languages: Low Werman, Altbergish, Norse
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Full Name of Country/Region: Republic of Solonia (Rzeczpospolita Solónya)
Representative Signing: Prime Minister Świętosława Dobrzynska
Continent: Cotf Aranye
First Language: Solonian (Polish)
Second Language: Magyíra (Hungarian)
Additional Languages: English
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Full Name of Country/Region: The Christian Republic of Holy Mountjoy
Representative Signing:Knight Commander Hugo Lascelles
Continent:- Aranye
First Language: Latin
Second Language:
Additional Languages:
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Full Name of Country/Region:Grand Duchy of Haalgland
Representative Signing: Prime Minister Andrey Romse
Continent Albion
First Language: North Haalglandian
Second Language: South Haalglandian
Additional Languages: Sipk, 3 Dialects of Native Languages.
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Full Name of Country/Region: The Free Land of Coanchua/Matilda/Andean Channels
Representative Signing: tbd
Continent Ardia
First Language: Coanchese/Mixed Cross-Seas Dialect
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Full Name of Country/Region: The Commonwealth of Somerset
Representative Signing:
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Evanthe Rhodes
Lord Protector
Continent: Cotf Aranye
First Language: Gaelic
Second Language: Rokkenjiman
Additional Languages: English
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Full Name of Country: Kingdom of Rhand
Representative Signing: Prince Laurenz Hajioff
Continent: Ardia
First Language: Rhandic Ardian
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Full Name of Country/Region: Stratocratic Federation of Kaiser Adolf
Representative Signing: Sultan Albrich Augustus Adolf
Continent: Cotf Aranye
First Language: Malay (Bahasa Melayu)
Second Language: English
Additional Languages: Mandarin, Tamil
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Full Name of Country/Region: Republic of Sutherland
Representative Signing: President Malcum Truman
Continent: Ardia
First Language: English
Second Language:
Additional Languages:
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Full Name of Country/Region: Empire of Quintelia
Representative Signing: Minister of Foreign Affairs Sofia Aliena
Continent: Ardia
First Language: English
Second Language: Filipino
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Full Name of Country/Region: The ferderation of Muneski
Representative Signing: Georgie Cruchet
Continent: Albion
First Language: English
Second Language: none
Additional Languages: none
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Full Name of Country/Region:THE SIX DUKEDOMS OF BAKKERMAYA
Representative Signing: Grand Duke Hugo Lascelles
First Language: Morelandish
Second Language: English
Additional Languages:
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Full Name of Country/Region: The Grand Duchy of Montsarre
Representative Signing: Grand Duchess Émilie Poincaré
Continent: Alba Karinya
First Language: French
Second Language: English
Additional Languages: Morelandish
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Full Name of Country/Region: The Republic of Biseam
Representative Signing: President Johannes Cheou Mayama
Consentient: Alba Kanringa
First Language: Korean, Japanese & Dutch
Second Language: English
Additional Languages: Mandarin Chinese
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Full Name of Country/Region: The Royal Federation of Huisslandia
Representative Signing: First Consul Helmar Van L’Rois on behalf of her majesty Queen Heloise Gaugh
Continent: Cotf Aranye
First Language: Dutch, French & German
Second Language: English,
Additional Languages: Several Slavic Languages
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Full Name of Country/Region: Kingdom of Tytor
Representative Signing: John H. Goodfellow, Minister of Foreign Affairs (back before 2015, when he still was)
First Language: English
Second Language: Floodwaterian Creole
Additional Languages: Old Tytoric
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Updated to here.
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Full Name of Country/Region: The Diarchy of Hassfurt
Representative Signing: Queen Karin Biermann & King Philip Thiessan
Continent: Aranye
First Language: German
Second Language:
Additional Languages:
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Full Name of Country/Region: Kingdom Of Archni
Representative Signing:Magnam Aquilae Aureum Venti Aquilae IIV ,Prime minister Gale Kurband
First Language: Archnian
Second Language: Simplified Archnian
Additional Languages: Latin
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Full Name of Country/Region: The Empire Of Kindricks
Representative Signing:Mr Erling Allen -- Minister Of Foreign Affairs Of The Empire Of Kindricks
First Language: English
Second Language:Yoruba
Additional Languages:NIL
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Full Name of Country/Region: Commonwealth of Soleimani
Representative Signing: Ronan Minstra, Executive Senator of The Commonwealth of Soleimani
Continent: Ardia
First Language: Soleimani Persian
Second Language: English
Additional Languages: Seronese, Arminian, Coastal Dialect
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Updated to here
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Full Name of Country/Region: The Republic of Quebec
Representative Signing: His Excellency, President Maximilien Boucheron
Continent: Cotf Aranye
First Language: French
Second Language:
Additional Languages:
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Full Name of Country/Region: The Second Empire of Ikhan and the Territories of Lekhai and Rusan (alternatively just "the Second Empire of Ikhan")
Representative Signing: Ashot Ekhral, Prime Minister of Ikhan
Continent: Ardia
First Language: Arashin
Second Language: Avosai
Additional Languages: Nirai, Lekhische, English
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Full Name of Country/Region: The Holy Land Of Altromine
Representative Signing: Chancellor Atomi Hektor
Continent: Arayne
First Language: Altrominen
Second Language: Arabic
Additional Languages: Latin, Hieroglyphics
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Full Name of Country/Region: The Commonwealth of Eskdale
Representative Signing: Royal Overseer Stanley Keyes
First Language: English
Second Language:
Additional Languages:
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Full Name of Country/Region: Second Republic of Aschlon
Representative Signing: President Henry Furer
First Language: Aschlonian
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Full Name of Country/Region: The Republic of Preoria
Representative Signing: Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Callum Teague
First Language: English
Second Language: Welsh
Additional Languages: Scots Gaelic
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Full Name of Country/Region: The People's Democratic Republic of Kusan
Representative Signing: Chairwoman Ri Sang-Hee
First Language: Kusanese
Second Language: Rokkenjiman
Signed;
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