Item No.
CONFIDENTROL
Convention
2.. The Convention and its annexed Statute confirm the freedom of navigation through internal waterways in order to maintain a regime of international, navigation, without prejudicing
sovereignty ΟΙ authority.
States are required
parties' Contracting
of navigation
to
to accord free exercise
vessels flying the flag of any other Contracting States on navigable waterways of international concern.
not
The Convention is
open to accession by Members of the League of Nations which have not signed it and States Members Of the League to which the Council Of the League may decide officially to communicate the Convention (Article 5).
13.5
Declaration Recognising the Right to Flag of States Having No Sea-Coast, Barcelona, 1921
1.
The
Declaration
was concluded in
Barcelona
on 20 April 1921. The UK ratified it on 9 October 1922 and Hong Kong was included in the UK's ratification. is not a party to it.
The PRC
2.
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The Declaration declares that its signatories will recognise a flag flown by the vessels OF any State, which has no
provided
sea-coast,
the
registered at a specified
vessels are
place situated
within the territory of that land-locked State which serves as the port of registry of
such
vessels.
It aims to improve the
maintenance of law and order on the open sea.
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