Open AccessStatus obligations of a “flag state”: modern international legal regime of the slaves’ transportation suppression
Author(s) -
Serhii Kuznietsov
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
revista amazonía investiga
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2322-6307
DOI - 10.34069/ai/2022.49.01.6
Subject(s) - flag (linear algebra) , law , state (computer science) , international law , convention , nationality , political science , computer science , mathematics , immigration , algorithm , pure mathematics , algebra over a field
The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea prescribes that vessels have the nationality of the State whose flag they are entitled to fly and that there must exist “a genuine link” between a “flag State” (a State which entitles a vessel to fly its flag) and the “flag vessels” (the vessels which are entitled to fly the States’ flag). But the Convention has neither definition of the term “genuine link” as a legal link “legal rights – legal obligations”, nor defines States’ and vessels’ rights and obligations. We have analyzed status obligations of a “flag State” which are related to suppression of illegal use of the “flag vessels”. The purpose of our study was to investigate modern international legal regime of the slaves’ transportation by sea suppression and to prepare the legal field to defining the full complex of a “flag State” status obligations. The methodology includes systematic, formal-legal methods, the methods of analyses and synthesis. The results highlight that the status obligations of a “flag State”, inter alia, those to suppression the transportation of slaves as an illegal use of the “flag vessels”, are those to form an integral part of the “genuine link” conception.