© Hakimi Abdul Jabar 83000 Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia 25/02/2015

© THE ASEAN and East Asian Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment?

Pursuant to para. II of the United Nations General Assembly’s Declaration of 17 December 1970 of Principles Governing the Seabed and the Ocean Floor and the Subsoil Thereof beyond the Limits of National Jurisdiction, which had affirmed that states were to take appropriate measures for, and co-operate in establishing a regime to govern the prevention of pollution and contamination of the marine environment, and of interference with the ecological balance of this environment and to govern also the protection and conservation of the natural resources of the seas and the prevention of damage to the flora and fauna of the marine environment and further contribute towards the development contained in Part XII on the Protection and Preservation of the Marine Environment (Arts. 192-237), it would be economically and environmentally soundly feasible if ASEAN and East Asian states impart their joint technical knowledge and expertise and form a prototype regional seas and marine environmental protection area that stretches from the Straits of Malacca, South China Sea and all the way to the Seas of Japan and Okhotsk, taking into consideration the establishment the perennial regional seas programme, the Barcelona Convention for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea against Pollution and subsequent protocols regulated by regional instruments outside UNEP’s programme. The protocols should range in subject matters from pollution caused by dumping, land-based sources and seabed activities to co-operation in emergencies, specially protected areas and transboundary movement of hazardous waste and taking the consumate and methodical approach of the Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North East Atlantic (OSPAR) (1992).

What do ASEAN and East Asia think?

© Hakimi Abdul Jabar 83000 Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia 25/02/2015
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© THE ASEAN and East Asian Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment?

Pursuant to para. II of the United Nations General Assembly’s Declaration of 17 December 1970 of Principles Governing the Seabed and the Ocean Floor and the Subsoil Thereof beyond the Limits of National Jurisdiction, which had affirmed that states were to take appropriate measures for, and co-operate in establishing a regime to govern the prevention of pollution and contamination of the marine environment, and of interference with the ecological balance of this environment and to govern also the protection and conservation of the natural resources of the seas and the prevention of damage to the flora and fauna of the marine environment and further contribute towards the development contained in Part XII on the Protection and Preservation of the Marine Environment (Arts. 192-237), it would be economically and environmentally soundly feasible if ASEAN and East Asian states impart their joint technical knowledge and expertise and form a prototype regional seas and marine environmental protection area that stretches from the Straits of Malacca, South China Sea and all the way to the Seas of Japan and Okhotsk, taking into consideration the establishment the perennial regional seas programme, the Barcelona Convention for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea against Pollution and subsequent protocols regulated by regional instruments outside UNEP’s programme. The protocols should range in subject matters from pollution caused by dumping, land-based sources and seabed activities to co-operation in emergencies, specially protected areas and transboundary movement of hazardous waste and taking the consumate and methodical approach of the Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North East Atlantic (OSPAR) (1992).

What do ASEAN and East Asia think?

© Hakimi Abdul Jabar 83000 Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia 25/02/2015