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The Hague Conference for the Codification of International Law (1930)

The first intergovernmental attempt to codify the law of the sea was the 1930 Hague Conference for the Codification of International Law. The Hague Conference was instigated by the League of Nations between 13 March and 12 April 1930, and was attended by forty-seven governments and an observer, i.e. the USSR. The Conference aimed to codify international law concerning three subjects, namely nationality, State responsibility and territorial waters. With regard to territorial waters, two issues, among various issues discussed at the Conference, are of particular interest: the nature of the rights possessed by a State over its territorial sea, and the breadth of the territorial sea.
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