RUSSIA VS UK: Moscow CALLS Ship Seizures 'Most Severe Violation' Of International Maritime Law!

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A Russian representative addressed an informal meeting of United Nations Security Council members on maritime safety, accusing the European Union and United Kingdom of seizing civilian vessels based on what Moscow characterised as illegal unilateral coercive measures, describing such actions as a severe violation of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, which guarantees freedom of navigation and the right to peaceful and transit passage. The Russian envoy stated that the concept of a shadow fleet, used by Western nations to justify ship seizures, has no basis in international law or the UN Convention, and does not appear among the strictly limited legal grounds for stopping and inspecting vessels at sea, characterising such enforcement actions as having no legal foundation and describing them as akin to piracy. Moscow argued that these measures threaten the stability and predictability of global supply chains, with particular consequences for small island states and developing

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