♤ It is based in Geneva, Switzerland.

2.2.5. High Seas

♤ All parts of the sea that are not included in the exclusive economic zone, the territorial sea or the internal or archipelagic waters of a State, are known as the high seas.

♤ On the high seas all States have the freedom of navigation, of overflight, to lay submarine cables and pipelines, to construct artificial islands and other installations, of fishing, and of scientific research.

♤ These freedoms must be exercised with due regard for the interests of other States in their exercise of the freedom of the high seas.