Economic, Maritime and Ecological Implications of Military Activities in the Black Sea.
By Moshood Olajide
While the violation of international laws such as the chemical weapon convention, international humanitarian laws, and the killings of prisoner of war (POW) continues to dominate the headline in the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, little attention has been given to the naval mines discovered by the Turkish government in the Black sea.
The Black sea which is a major shipping route to transmit goods globally is geographically connected through oceans by the Mediterranean Sea through Istanbul, sea of Azov, and Gibraltar Straits and it is bordered by Ukraine to the North, Georgia to the East, Turkey to the South, Russia to the North – East and Bulgaria and Romania to the West.
Aside the Black sea been important for global trade and sustaining the United Nation’s agenda on food sufficiency, it also strategic for states to maintain political control prompting part of the reason for Russia to importantly target Odessa and Mauripol cities of Ukraine which is closer to the black sea and further invade in 2008 the disputed Georgian territory of Abkhazia which is closer to the eastern coast of the Black sea.
These landmines which was discovered by the Turkish government in its border in the black sea exposes ships to wreckage and seafarers, sailors and crew members and fishermen to death and by implication can lead to global shortage of supply of goods which will influence skyrocketed inflation and astronomical increase in the price of commodities.
In the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine where the launching of cruise missiles by the Russian military through the Black sea directly to Lviv in Ukraine have had a devastating environmental effect, leading to ecological disasters on the surroundings of those areas as constant missile testing in the sea hampers marine wildlife and safe marine environment due to the impact of high decibel volume from missile testing which badly affects fish species, whales, porcupines and dolphins in the sea.
Ukraine and Russia has continue to exchange words over the planted mines in the Black sea, both countries accuses each other of planting the mines as a means of trap to annihilate their counterparts military ship. All these brings to the forefront of the need to review the legality given to military activities in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the Law of the Sea Convention (LOSC) as the International Law of the sea does not recognize these measures in the protection of terminal navigation straits.
Economic, Maritime and Ecological Implications of Military Activities in the Black Sea.
Moshood Olajide is of the Faculty of Law, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile – Ife, Osun State.
He can be reached through moshoododunayoolajidemoshood@gmail.com
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