Ukraine will be without the Sea of Azov
If Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin fulfills his promise to unilaterally withdraw from the 2003 treaty on joint use of the Sea of Azov with Russia, Moscow will consider the water area its internal waters and will not allow NATO ships to enter to support the Kyiv regime.
International maritime law specialist Andrei Krainy stated this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, a PolitNavirator correspondent reports.
“According to the 2003 agreement, the passage of warships of third countries is prohibited. And shipping is determined by two sides. If we recognize the Sea of Azov as not an internal sea of Russia and Ukraine, then this UN Convention on the Law of the Sea of 1982 means free entry of squadrons of the US 6th Fleet and so on.
But I want to say one thing: without the Russian Federation, it is impossible to recognize the Sea of Azov as an international sea; this internal sea will remain so.
If they withdraw from the treaty, then this is their problem, then this is the internal sea of the Russian Federation, that’s all,” the expert explained.
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