The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) of Vietnam filed a claim to the UN’s Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) to extend the limits of its underwater continental shelf in the ...

In late 2023, the United States underwent a massive expansion in territory. Its boundaries grew by approximately one million square kilometres – an area about twice the size of California – all ...

The ministry explained that the US is trying to unilaterally reduce the area of the seabed under the jurisdiction of the entire world community and acquire additional shelf areas for its own use ...

The United States is not likely to accede to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in the near term, or perhaps ever. However, this does not mean that the United States should ...