C’est la course aux ressources énergétiques... Dans l’Arctique et aIlleurs. Les Etats-Unis, qui veulent en être, ont oublié qu’ils ont pendant longtemps refusé de signé et/ou ratifier le traité des Nations-Unis sur le « droit de la mer »...
Et ils découvrent tout à coup qu’il y a comme une urgence vu que les Nations unies acceptent les revendications de domaines marins uniquement des pays... qui on ratifié ce traité.
Voir : Convention des Nations unies sur le droit de la mer
►http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_des_Nations_unies_sur_le_droit_de_la_mer
Law of the Sea Treaty Is Found on Capitol Hill, Again - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/world/americas/law-of-the-sea-treaty-is-found-on-capitol-hill-again.html?nl=todaysheadline
Law of the Sea Treaty Is Found on Capitol Hill, Again
By MARK LANDLER
Published: May 23, 2012
WASHINGTON — Senator Bob Corker, the Tennessee Republican, joked that he was witnessing “sort of a Lazarus moment.” On that score, at least, Mr. Corker got no quarrel from his Democratic colleagues.
Thirty years after it was signed in Montego Bay, Jamaica, the United Nations treaty that governs the world’s oceans is undergoing one of its periodic resurrections in Congress. A Senate committee on Wednesday summoned three top national security officials to make yet another plea for the agreement, in the face of narrow, but stubborn, opposition.