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The law of the sea is a body of public international law governing the geographic jurisdictions of coastal States and the rights and duties among States in the

The Piracy & Armed Robbery Map below follows the definition of Piracy as laid down in Article 101 of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (U

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