Of all the disagreements that plague nations, few are quite so exasperating as the question: How far out to sea can a country claim territorial jurisdiction? When the 1930 Hague Codification Conference failed to find an answer, the world was left with a crazy-quilt situation in which some nations claimed a three-mile territorial sea limit, others claimed four, six, ten, twelve, 200, or all the water covering the continental shelf. Last week in Geneva an 86-nation U.N Law of the Sea Conference finished more than two months of meetings on the subject, and put the question to a vote.
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