The strait is an international waterway, and foreign warships have the " right of innocent passage " through it under international law, Foreign Ministry spokesman Chen Jian said Tuesday at a briefing.
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Egyptian salvage workers on Tuesday refloated a Liberian-registered fuel tanker stranded in the Suez Canal for three days and prepared to reopen the international waterway, said the head of the Suez Canal Authority.
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The Tulsa Port of Catoosa, at the head of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System, is the most inland river port in the U . S . with access to international waterways.
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In the final days of the campaign, the rhetoric has only intensified with Chinese admonishments that American warships stay out of the Taiwan Strait and Washington's assertion of right of passage through the international waterway.
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The United States asserts the Northwest Passage is an international waterway and that commercial and military vessels should have the right to free navigation of the icy lanes linking the North Atlantic to the rich markets of Asia.
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The carrier was headed to Hong Kong from its home port of Bremerton, Washington, in a " routine deployment " and was in an international waterway, said Pacific Fleet Lt . Commander Jeff Alderson.
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The report, issued on the eve of a meeting of U . S . and Canadian mayors, failed to quell calls for the British Columbia capital to treat its effluent before discharging it into the international waterway.
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It said Tehran was astounded that these countries " want Iran, which has a legitimate right to guarantee security in the Persian Gulf as an important international waterway, to ignore its own national security ."
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Given Morocco's significant coastline ( 2, 952 km ) and strategic position oversseing the strait of Gibraltar, it ( with Spain and the United Kingdom ) is deeply involved in the security of this important international waterway.
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Paragraph 2 ( a ) of the Resolution, which guarantees " freedom of navigation through international waterways in the area, " may allow Arab states to interfere with navigation through " some " international waterways of their choosing.
