Gaffney to Congress: ‘The United States should not become a party to the Law of the Sea Treaty’

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On Wednesday, Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney voiced his objections to the Law of the Sea Treaty before the House Committee on International Relations.

During his testimony Gaffney cautioned: “For the first time in history, we are being asked to submit to a supranational agency that has all the trappings of a world government – an executive, a legislative assembly, a court, the ability to raise revenues and, in due course, perhaps the means to enforce its decisions.”

Furthermore, Gaffney pointed out that the agency in question, the International Seabed Authority (ISA), “will become a model for arrangements to govern other so-called ‘commons,’ notably, outer space and perhaps Antarctica. The implications for U.S. security and commercial interests of a world government entity dictating to us our use of and access to space could make the concerns raised by the ISA pale by comparison. Yet, there has been scarcely any discussion of the precedential implications of the Law of the Sea Treaty.”

Click here to read Frank Gaffney’s testimony; or here to learn more about the Law of the Sea Treaty and the effect it will have on U.S. sovereignty.

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