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DECISION OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS ON APPROVAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF THE SEA

    The 19th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Eighth National
People's Congress hereby decides to approve the United Nations Convention on
the Law of the Sea and meanwhile, makes the following statements:

    1. According to the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the
Law of the Sea, the People's Republic of China shall have sovereignty and
jurisdiction over its exclusive economic zone and continental shelf of 200
nautical miles.

    2. The People's Republic of China shall, through consultation with its
coastal neighboring or facing countries, on the basis of the international
law and in accordance with the principle of equity, delimit a demarcation
line between China's maritime jurisdiction and the maritime jurisdictions of
China's coastal neighboring or facing countries.

    3. The People's Republic of China reiterates its sovereignty over all
archipelagoes and islands listed in Article 2 of the Law of the People's
Republic of China on the Territorial Sea and the Continuous Zone which was
promulgated on February 25, 1992.

    4. The People's Republic of China affirms: provisions of the United
Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea concerning the innocent passage
through a country's territorial sea make no prejudice to the right of a
coastal country to demand, in accordance with its laws or regulations,
foreign ships of military purposes to obtain approval from the country or
notify the country in advance for going through the country's territorial
sea.