On 22 January 2024 at UN Headquarters in New York, US, the Permanent Representative of Palau handed over to the Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and UN Legal Counsel her country’s instrument of ratification of the Agreement on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ), known as the “high seas treaty.”
Along with the 1994 Agreement relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the 1995 UN Fish…
