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Transit Passage Regime Controversy Revisited:, Young K. Kim

Young K Kim

In our contemporary international community, ensuring an unimpeded right of navigation and over-flight through those choke-pointed channels is vital not only to some western naval powers, but also to average industrialized countries. Any arbitrary restriction on straits transit would probably have serious negative effects on developed and developing countries alike. By the same token, any lawlessness in the adjacent territorial area of the straits resulting from the denial of coastal states' control would probably mean a serious disaster not only for the ships and aircraft in transit in those dense congestion, but also for the littoral administration in population control …