Author
Assistant Prof., Department of Law, University of Payame Noor, Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982 involve the necessary tools for the protection and support of the resources of the deep sea area. But international obligations prescribed in the Convention on the law of the sea for the safeguard and protection of the deep sea area environment should be interpreted in a way that covers other existing regulations in the customary international law. Although in the Convention on the law of the sea provisions is no hinder to extend the international customary law obligations on the States parties to the Convention, but branches of International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea are reluctant to extend to the law of the sea. The approach of Seabed Disputes Chamber of International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in 2011 advisory opinion indicate the responsibility of the Member State in protection and protections of the sea environment are limited solely to the provisions of the Convention on the Law of sea and its Executive agreements And the doctrines of customary international law do not work directly in this area. This contradictory approach of Seabed Disputes
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