Yet, it is predictable that few organizations would suffer more than America's naval forces from a supranational government of the oceans empowered by U.S. accession to that treaty.

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Nehru agreed, and so did the outgoing British Viceroy, Lord Louis Mountbatten. (A pragmatist, Mountbatten noted that Kashmir was more closely linked, through religion and geography, to Pakistan than India.) As a result, the maharajah was asked to sign only a treaty of temporary accession to India.

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The truth is that the U.N. and its admirers are so keen on U.S. accession to the Law of the Sea Treaty precisely because it will transform that so-called "constitution of the seas" into an actual charter for a new supranational order.

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The Maastricht Treaty (Article 121) fixed numerical targets for states seeking accession to the European Union.

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Other issues to be dealt with at the summit include the future of the Schengen agreement on the free movement of EU citizens, and the signing of an accession treaty between the EU and Croatia, allowing the ex-Yugoslav country to join the union in 2013.

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And some issues need to be resolved before candidates and today's members can agree on an accession treaty.

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The summit offered a reassurance to the 10 candidate countries (Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Cyprus, Malta, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) that they should be able to finish negotiations by the end of the year, sign a Treaty of Accession in 2003 and join in 2004.

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Gaffney, Jr. appeared yesterday before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works to voice opposition to U.S. accession to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, better known as the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST).

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