The (right to) Sea Access versus the privilege of Port service
Posted: 15 Dec 2024, 08:02
People are either very much confused about the difference between the two or deliberately trying to confuse the two for their own end-goal. It should be noted.
Access to the sea is reportedly enshrined in international conventions (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)) and presumably every nation of the world has the right to raise a claim to it while a port service is simply a sort of commercial dealings between two parties (the provider and the consumer, like any other commodity of international trade).
What is that so difficult to understand the difference between the two properly and use them properly instead of trying to mix the unrelated terms or ideas and make yet a lot of noises here and there?
What Ethiopia had so far with the tiny republic of Djibouti is a commercial port service deal while what Ethiopia signed with the Somaliland Republic is a right to access the sea, based on the aforementioned international convention, which shouldn't necessarily has to be based on Ethiopia recognizing Somaliland as an independent state. This can be realized, if necessary, outside of the agreement for access to the sea provisions.
The other confusing element is also the attempt to try to dictate if Ethiopia is entitled to have its own naval base. To answer this second question it could suffice to mention or remember what is the purpose of a naval force in the first place anywhere in the world? Is that to protect the national interest of the owning nation of the base? In that case why is somebody so hard pressed to provide a reason why Ethiopia shouldn't be allowed to protect its own national interest by having a naval force when needed and where is it that was written to forbid Ethiopia from having it?
If this could somehow turns out to be a valid claim, then there must also be a rule somewhere which should dictate if a nation should or shouldn't have any defense or security apparatus of its own, isn't it?
But I can also say there are too many people in here suffering from the newly discovered disease of the day called brain-rot and the challenge is not so simple, no matter how much we try to make people become aware of it and take a necessary precautions.
Access to the sea is reportedly enshrined in international conventions (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)) and presumably every nation of the world has the right to raise a claim to it while a port service is simply a sort of commercial dealings between two parties (the provider and the consumer, like any other commodity of international trade).
What is that so difficult to understand the difference between the two properly and use them properly instead of trying to mix the unrelated terms or ideas and make yet a lot of noises here and there?
What Ethiopia had so far with the tiny republic of Djibouti is a commercial port service deal while what Ethiopia signed with the Somaliland Republic is a right to access the sea, based on the aforementioned international convention, which shouldn't necessarily has to be based on Ethiopia recognizing Somaliland as an independent state. This can be realized, if necessary, outside of the agreement for access to the sea provisions.
The other confusing element is also the attempt to try to dictate if Ethiopia is entitled to have its own naval base. To answer this second question it could suffice to mention or remember what is the purpose of a naval force in the first place anywhere in the world? Is that to protect the national interest of the owning nation of the base? In that case why is somebody so hard pressed to provide a reason why Ethiopia shouldn't be allowed to protect its own national interest by having a naval force when needed and where is it that was written to forbid Ethiopia from having it?
If this could somehow turns out to be a valid claim, then there must also be a rule somewhere which should dictate if a nation should or shouldn't have any defense or security apparatus of its own, isn't it?
But I can also say there are too many people in here suffering from the newly discovered disease of the day called brain-rot and the challenge is not so simple, no matter how much we try to make people become aware of it and take a necessary precautions.