Dear IBRU Members,
This email is available under January 2009 at: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=int-boundaries&T=0
For the 103rd ASIL Annual Meeting!!, Washington, D.C., 25-28 March 2009, please see: http://am2009.asil.org/program.cfm via: http://www.asil.org/annual-meeting.cfm & http://am2009.asil.org/index.cfm & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D._C.
It looks that U.S. President Bush saved the best for the very end of his cadency and we feel gratified that he chose the Oceans as the subject of his environmentally and navigationally spectacular action:
Statement by the U.S. President on the Occasion of the Designation of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument, Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, and the Rose Atoll Marine National Monument of 6 January 2009 [via: http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=Pacific_Islands & http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=Bush ] - U.S. President Bush's Announcement at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2009/01/20090106-4.html and http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2009/01/20090106-9.html via http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/ via under Sudan StarShot at http://www.whitehouse.gov/ including:
* U.S. President Bush's Statement at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2009/01/20090106-9.html
* and Rose Atoll Marine National Monument Proclamation at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2009/01/20090106-7.html
* and Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument [including Johnston Atoll and Wake Island] Proclamation at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2009/01/20090106-6.html
* and Marianas Trench Marine National Monument [including Guam] Proclamation at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2009/01/20090106-2.html
and Three U.S. Pacific Marine National Monuments of 500,000 sq km (200,000 sq miles) Banning Commercial Fishing and Mining in the Marianas Trench, the Deepest Area of Ocean on the Planet and a string of largely uninhabited reefs and atolls near the Equator and American Samoa [including Guam, Northern Marianas, Johnston Atoll, Rose Atoll in American Samoa] of 5-6 January 2009 at: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/06/bush-set-to-protect-pacific-islands & http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7812786.stm & http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/06/america/06oceans.php & http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/us/06oceans.html & http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article5456232.ece & http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/06/AR2009010602107.html & http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/05/bush.conservation/index.html & http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/06/bush.conservation/index.html & http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/06/ocean-conservation-george-bush-pacific & http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1869917,00.html & http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/06/eveningnews/main4703173.shtml and UNDOALOS at: http://www.un.org/Depts/los/ and CLCS at: http://www.un.org/Depts/los/clcs_new/clcs_home.htm and U.S. Senator Lugar's Oceans Leadership at: http://lugar.senate.gov/sfrc/sea.html
5-Power Lunch with Former US Presidents of 7 January 2009 at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2009/01/20090107-3.html & http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/transition/ & http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/4162944/Barack-Obama-meets-US-presidents-at-White-House-lunch.html & http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7815707.stm and with Video at: http://newsclipper.org/#66693 & http://newsclipper.org/#66691 & http://newsclipper.org/#66660 & http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/07/transition.wrap/index.html & http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-01-07-obama-presidents_N.htm [via: http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=Obama ]
Please see also: Outer CS Conference in London on 27 January 2009 [it will already be the best New Year of Ox (since 26 January 2009)] at: http://www.biicl.org/events/view/-/id/350/ and UNDOALOS at: http://www.un.org/Depts/los/ and CLCS at: http://www.un.org/Depts/los/clcs_new/clcs_home.htm
Marshall Atolls Emergency of 25 December 2008 at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7799566.stm
The United States and the Law of the Sea Convention of 3 November [Released: 5 November] 2008 at: http://www.state.gov/s/l/rls/111587.htm and UNDOALOS at: http://www.un.org/Depts/los/
My "ICJ-ILC and US Legal Adviser on UNCLOS" email of 28 October 2008 to 462 IBRU recipients is under October 2008 at: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A1=ind0810&L=int-boundaries via: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=int-boundaries&T=0 or directly at: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0810&L=int-boundaries&T=0&F=&S=&P=7510 referring to: U.S. Legal Adviser John B. Bellinger's Address at the American Branch of the ILA of 17 October 2008 at: http://www.state.gov/s/l/rls/111049.htm reported upon on 27 October 2008 at: http://www.globalarbitrationreview.com/news/article/4879/ or
http://www.globalarbitrationreview.com/news/article/4879/recently-published-contributions-law-sea-necessity-defence/ [via: http://www.globalarbitrationreview.com ] and US Oceans Action Plan of 26 September 2008 at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/09/20080926-4.html and U.S. Northern Marianas, Long Islands and American Samoa Protected Areas of 24 August 2008 at: http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?cat=1&newsID=82794 & http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?cat=1&newsID=82781
Wishing you all a Very Happy 2009, Barbara [at: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P3-1439064821.html and Nos 4 & 15 at: http://catalogue.ppl.nl/DB=1/LNG=EN/REL?PPN=076251780 ]
Prof. Dr. Barbara Kwiatkowska
Professor of International Law of the Sea
Deputy Director NILOS
Faculty of Law - Utrecht University
Achter Sint Pieter 200
3512 HT Utrecht - The Netherlands
Phone: 31 30 253 7037/7038
Fax: 31 30 253 7073
http://www.law.uu.nl/nilos
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