REJECT THE UN’S LAW OF THE SEA TREATY The sensational headlines
say, “Russian Arctic Team Reaches North Pole” or “Russia Claims
North Pole.” But the U.S. was there first – back in the early
1900s. America, not Russia, has a valid claim to the North Pole.
The controversy is not about a block of ice. Because arctic sea
ice is melting, opening up new passageways for ships, there is
an opportunity to explore for natural resources absolutely vital
to the U.S. economy. Exploiting the seabed for oil and gas and
other resources could help free us from dependence on foreign
nations. Press reports indicate that Russia is claiming
ownership of 460,000 square miles of Arctic territory - and its
huge reserves of oil and gas. Yet, the U.S. State Department
wants to turn the whole matter over to the United Nations. State
Department officials, led by Condoleezza Rice’s top lawyer, John
B. Bellinger III, are telling the press that the U.S. should
immediately ratify the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea
(UNCLOS) in order t