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Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery Against Ships in Asia*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Moritaka Hayashi
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International Legal Materials , Volume 44 , Issue 4 , July 2005 , pp. 826 - 835
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2005

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Moritaka Hayashi is a Professor at the School of Law, Waseda University, in Tokyo. He was formerly Assistant Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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References

1 Press Release of April 28, 2005, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan, available at http://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/announce/2005/4/0428.html.

2 Report of the Secretary-General on Oceans and the Law of the Sea, UN Doc. A/56/58 (9 March 2001), para. 178.

3 There was another incident, very similar to this case, about a year before, involving the hijacking in the same area of the M/V Tenyu, owned by a Japanese company and registered in Panama. All 15 crew members had disappeared when the ship was found in China three months later.

4 See IMO Doc. A.738(18).

5 See the Report of the Secretary-General on Oceans and the Law of the Sea, supra note 2, para. 192 et seq. The Code was adopted on 29 November 2001, by Resolution A.922(22).

6 IMO Doc. MSC/Circ.622/Rev.1.

7 UN Doc. A/RES/53/32, paras. 22 and 23.

8 Press Release of the Chairman on the Asean Summit Meetings, November 28, 1999, available at <http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/asean/pmv991 l/release_c.html>.

9 A report on the Conference is contained in IMO Doc. MSC73/INF.4.

10 For text, see ibid., annex 2.

11 For text, see ibid., annex 4.

12 For text, see ibid., annex 3.

13 Press Release of December 2001 of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan, available at <http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/piracy/problem0112.html.>

14 Press Conference by the Foreign Ministry Press Officer, Japan. on November 12, 2004, available at <http://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/press/2004/11/1112.html>. See also Diplomatic Bluebook 2003, of Japan, p. 176, available at http://www,mofa.go.jp/policy/oher/bluebook/2003/chap3-c.pdf.

15 Actually this point was considered as one of the fundamental principles followed throughout the negotiating process of the Agreement. See Akima Umezawa, “An Emerging Legal Order at Sea in Asia and Pacific. Prevention of Crimes: By Whom and How?” Proceedings of the 2003 International Symposium: Unity in Diversity. Asian Perspective in International Law in the 21s’ Century, October 11-12, 2003, Nagoya. p. 181

* This document was reproduced and reformatted from the text appearing at the WTO website http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/285abr_e.pdf (visited July 19, 2005).