 | Malcolm N. Shaw - Law - 2003 - 1452 pages
...to the Suez and Panama Canals. Article 1 of the Constantinople Convention of 1888285 declared that 'the Suez Maritime Canal shall always be free and...of commerce or of war without distinction of flag' and this international status was in no way affected by the Egyptian nationalisation of the Canal Company... | |
 | Amy J. Johnson - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 348 pages
...canal's neutral character.131 The convention, the booklet noted, stipulated in Article 1 that "the Suez Canal shall always be free and open in time of war...as in time of peace, to every vessel of commerce or war, without distinction of flag." 132 Yet, the booklet continued, previous British use of the canal... | |
 | Michael P. Gerace - Business & Economics - 2004 - 316 pages
...free access to the canal was formally assured. The first article of the Convention states that the canal 'shall always be free and open, in time of war...vessel of commerce or of war, without distinction of flag'.141' The convention agreement came out of a British desire to keep the canal open to all ships.... | |
 | Oliver Dörr - Law - 2004 - 824 pages
...Holland, Russia, Spain and Turkey, declared, on the one hand, that the Suez Maritime Canal should ,, always be free and open, in time of war as in time...of commerce or of war without distinction of flag" including even the vessels of countries at war with Turkey, the territorial sovereign, and on the other... | |
 | Anthony Aust - Law - 2005 - 568 pages
...of Constantinople 1888.35 Although the Canal lies entirely within Egypt, Article 1 provides that it 'shall always be free and open, in time of war as...commerce or of war, without distinction of flag'. Other Articles provide in detail for its neutralisation. The original parties to the Convention were... | |
 | R. Garner Brasseur - History - 2006 - 514 pages
...Israel ships against use of Suez Canal in defiance of the 1888 Constantinople Convention stating that "The Suez Maritime Canal shall always be free and...as in time of peace, to every vessel of commerce or war, without distinction of flags. . . . The Canal shall never be subjected to the exercise of the... | |
 | Glenn Palmer, T. Clifton Morgan - International relations - 2006 - 246 pages
...another seventy-two years. In 1888 the Constantinople Convention assured that the canal "would always be open 'in time of war as in time of peace, to every...of commerce or of war without distinction of flag' " (cited in Bowie 1974, 4). In 1904 Britain and France agreed that French interests in Morocco would... | |
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The Suez Maritime Canal shall always be free and open, in time of war as in time of peace, to every vessel of commerce or of war, without distinction of flag. 
