Activities military warships of third countries in the maritime spaces of sovereignty or jurisdiction of the coastal state

Abstract

State presence in the sea is mainly through ostensible warships, whose particular legal regime affects their way of being and being in that environment. Also, necessary to reconcile the exercise of military effect activities carried by warships belonging to other States, the rights for the coastal States in the maritime areas under its sovereignty or jurisdiction. The question of compliance or legality of the military activities of warships of third States in the internal waters, territorial sea, and exclusive economic zone of the coastal State is far from peaceful in doctrine and in international practice. The military uses of the sea by third States, when projected over internal waters and territorial sea of the coastal State appear limited by the exercise of sovereignty by the latter, in those waters. However, in the exclusive economic zone of the coastal, based on the silence of this point in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, military activities conducted by other States, are to be considered legitimate internationally, so that only would be illegitimate if, taking the course raised concrete, contravene any of those provisions.