Date of most recent addition: 25 January 2008

Suspension of innocent passage

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Article 25, paragraph 3, of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 stipulates that a coastal State may, without discrimination in form or in fact among foreign ships, suspend temporarily, in specified areas of its territorial sea the innocent passage of foreign ships if such suspension is essential for the protection of its security, including weapons exercises. Such suspension takes effect, according to the same article, only after having been duly published.

This page contains notifications on the suspension of innocent passage in specified areas of the territorial seas of States Parties that have been received by the Secretary-General.