China FM urges nations to apply UN Convention on Law of the Sea

BEIJING (China Daily/Asia News Network): The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea has contributed to promoting international maritime cooperation and rejecting maritime hegemony, and thus ought to be interpreted and applied in full and in good faith to further improve global maritime governance, officials and experts said.

Unclos, adopted in 1982, has led to better protection and use of the sea. China was one of the first countries to sign the convention and ratified it in 1996.