India objects to US Navy ship's patrol without consent

[soryang]

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: April 9, 2021

NEW DELHI — India on Friday objected to a U.S. Navy ship conducting a "freedom of navigation" patrol in its exclusive economic zone without its prior consent.

"We have conveyed our concerns regarding this passage through our EEZ to the government of U.S.A through diplomatic channels,'' External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said.

The U.S. 7th Fleet said in a statement earlier that the USS John Paul Jones on Wednesday "asserted navigational rights and freedoms approximately 130 nautical miles west of the Lakshadweep Islands, inside India's exclusive economic zone, without requesting India's prior consent, consistent with international law."

It said India's requirement that countries receive prior consent for military operations in its EEZ was "inconsistent with international law" and that the United States "will fly, sail and operate wherever international law allows.''

more:

https://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/india-objects-to-us-navy-ship-s-patrol-without-consent-1.669168

[TomSlick]

1. That's why it's called a freedom of navigation patrol.

You claim control over more territorial waters that recognized by international law? We're the US 7th Fleet, do come out into international waters and talk with us about it.

[soryang]

2. you mean the US interpretation of UNCLOS

Which appears in the Navy Department's Commanders Handbook on the Law of Naval Operations?

There are a lot of restrictions on foreign activities in the EEZ. When they are done commercially they can be controlled by the state with control of the EEZ. When they are conducted by warships somehow that is regarded differently by the US. Things like dropping ordnance, live fire exercises, conducting surveys, dumping trash.

[relayerbob]

3. Will be interesting to see the US reaction when China moves a ship

between the Catalina islands and LA/SoCal

[left-of-center2012]

4. That's a lot closer than the 130 nautical miles mentioned in the op

Not exactly a fair comparison,
you think?

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Cuba? Via the Panama Canal?

[left-of-center2012]

6. What ?

Do we control who uses the canal or visits Cuba?