This treaty also includes the provision (read 'demands') that US companies transfer, give away, their patented mining and drilling technology destroying any competitive advantage US companies have in the world. And, once that technology is stolen from US companies, they have no recourse in US law.
This is no different than the UN making laws that require you to give away your children if a UN committee decides that your kids are required by another nation.
What's green and blue and grabby all over? President Obama's new pressure campaign for Congress to ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST).
The fight over LOST goes back three decades, when it was first rejected by President Ronald Reagan. He warned that "no national interest of the United States could justify handing sovereign control of two-thirds of the Earth's surface over to the Third World." According to top Reagan officials William Clark and Ed Meese, their boss believed the "central, and abiding, defect" was "its effort to promote global government at the expense of sovereign nation states...
We pay the UN and other nations to leave us alone while we develop resources and wealth they would and could never touch without us.
AA should be your friend.
Apparently not modified sufficiently to get Congress to support it, Mark.