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Ray Mabus: Failure to be a party to the Convention forces the United States to rely solely upon customary international law.

On the recordJanuary 14, 2009
Failure to be a party to the Convention forces the United States to rely solely upon customary international law.
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Ray Mabus

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Mabus highlighted the legal disadvantages of not joining UNCLOS.

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