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2. Ships apos routeing and the regime for straits

My delegation is fully aware that the safety of navigation in such straits is a key and vital element in promoting foreign trade.

(c) Article 38 recognizes the right of transit passage of all ships and aircraft in straits which are used for international navigation

As such, the isthmus shares with many straits and strategic islands, and with some horns and capes, a certain dangerous glamour, as all and sundry seek to venture there for purposes good and ill.

And we know that the Inuit killed the Norse and, probably of greater importance, may have blocked access to the outer fjords, on which the Norse depended for seals at a critical time of the year.

The Convention also reflects new international legal regimes, such as those applicable to the exclusive economic zone, archipelagic States, protection and preservation of the marine environment, transit passage through straits, mandatory provisions for the settlement of disputes and deep seabed mining.

Hostilities with Britain over the neutral zone of the Straits were narrowly avoided in the Chanak Crisis of September 1922, when Armistice of Mudanya was concluded on 11 October, which led the former Allies of World War I to return to the negotiating table with the Turks in November 1922.

With regard to the claims by the delegation of Turkey that Armenian ships freely pass through the Turkish straits and freely use Turkish ports, I have but to inform that there are simply no ships registered in the Republic of Armenia to use any sea port, including the Turkish ones.