Sunday, February 19, 2006
Spains response from 1995 to the Turbot wars
I realize that this is an old press release but the underlying subject and dispute still remains. Here are a few exexpts from the release.
Minister: The Government keeps doing what it can do and it does it in the following manner. I have stated a thousand times and I state once again that Spain will behave in conformity with international legality. Spain and the European Union cannot respond to a violation of international laws with yet another violation of international laws. We will always act with the utmost respect of international law.
The European Union and Spain in particular have the right to fish in those banks which allow me to add, were discovered in great part, by Spanish fishermen. Therefore, we feel we are in our own right to fish there.
We are all aware that fishing is a very debatable issue, in New York, today, for example, but I insist, what is important is that the outcome of these conclusions not be applied mainly on this or that country, but that the resolution be such that the whole International Community take responsibility, and we cannot accept that one country, in this case Canada, take jurisdiction in its own hands.
So I guess the United Nations Article 76 from the international law of the sea
UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION
ON THE LAW OF THE SEA
Signed at Montego Bay, Jamaica, 10 December 1982
Entry into Force: 16 November 1994
doesn't apply to Spain because as the minister states "were discovered in great part, by Spanish fishermen."
So should we be sending royalties over to Spain for all of our natural resource revenues? Maybe we should have to send our first born child over to Spain in gratitude for their discovering of North America?
Minister: The Government keeps doing what it can do and it does it in the following manner. I have stated a thousand times and I state once again that Spain will behave in conformity with international legality. Spain and the European Union cannot respond to a violation of international laws with yet another violation of international laws. We will always act with the utmost respect of international law.
The European Union and Spain in particular have the right to fish in those banks which allow me to add, were discovered in great part, by Spanish fishermen. Therefore, we feel we are in our own right to fish there.
We are all aware that fishing is a very debatable issue, in New York, today, for example, but I insist, what is important is that the outcome of these conclusions not be applied mainly on this or that country, but that the resolution be such that the whole International Community take responsibility, and we cannot accept that one country, in this case Canada, take jurisdiction in its own hands.
So I guess the United Nations Article 76 from the international law of the sea
UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION
ON THE LAW OF THE SEA
Signed at Montego Bay, Jamaica, 10 December 1982
Entry into Force: 16 November 1994
doesn't apply to Spain because as the minister states "were discovered in great part, by Spanish fishermen."
So should we be sending royalties over to Spain for all of our natural resource revenues? Maybe we should have to send our first born child over to Spain in gratitude for their discovering of North America?
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