“The high seas will no longer western west.” The President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday, June 10 that the Treaty to protect the high seas, although adopted in 2023, will enter into force as of next year.
“It will enter into force on January 1, 2026,” said the head of state in France 2. “We have around sixty countries that have ratified or deposited their UN instrument to the UN (…) that allows the technical period that will put it in force on January 1.”
“We will have done it in two years”
France hoped to obtain the 60 ratifications on the occasion of the United Nations conferences for the ocean held this week in Nice. Therefore, Emmanuel Macron states that the quota will be reached in September and appreciates the period of only a few years between the firm and the probable entry into force of the treaty.
“The last treaty we did was the Montego Bay Convention in 1982, it was only applied until 1994 because it took 12 years to ratify it. Well, there will have been done in two years,” he said in the Plateau de France 2.
This high seas protection treaty aims to establish “an international framework” to protect marine ecosystems in international waters. At the beginning of 134 signatures and 49 ratifications of countries, as well as the European Union, according to the UN Treaty Service, at the beginning of the week. Its entry into force must take place 120 days after the 60th ratification.
Source: BFM TV
