Talk:Svalbard Treaty
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I have changed the name svalbard-treaty into it's original name: Traité concernant le Spitsberg In the whole treaty, the name Svalbard is not mentioned. (even not in the norwegian translation) It's just modern policy of norway to replace the international name spitsbergen and call it Svalbard.
- Ah I see - but do you think that the entire article should be moved to one that bears the name of the original treaty title then? To my knowledge, by far the most common name today is "Svalbard Treaty", even though the actual treaty itself was concluded before the Norwegianization years. By the way, perhaps it would be a good idea to have an article dealing with the controversies over the reintroduction of Nidaros, Oslo and Svalbard. What do you think? //Big Adamsky 08:21, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
It is all politics.... Article 2 says: 'Ships and nationals of all the High Contracting Parties shall enjoy equally the rights of fishing and hunting in the territories specified in Article 1 and in their territorial waters.' But my experience is that the norwegians claim it to be theirs, also they act to show it. Right now I am trying to figure out when Norway started to call it Svalbard. Anyway, it is not so long ago that they started slowly to use Svalbard instead of Spitsbergen in the international brochures. After all it is the only reason on which the theory is based that the norwegians had been there before. Some recources mention the island called 'Svalbard' in the old chronicles, is most likely what we call now 'Jan Mayen'.
[edit] Signatories
It might be worth mentioning all the countries that signed the signature and if your looking to go there for a vacation, you can get there without a Visa if your a citizen of one of the countries that signed the Treaty. (74.122.179.108)
- done, but with outdated list. Alinor 16:38, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Fishing rights?!
I find the last sentence very odd; "Under the 1920 agreement signed by 48 countries, all signatories have equal fishing rights near the Spitsbergen Archipelago, but Norway has been allegedly seeking exclusive rights to the area since 1977[citation needed]." The treaty grants equal rights within the territorial waters around Svalbard. Norway has not attempted to infringe on any of the rights granted in the treaty, but areas are subject to environmental protection, which the treaty binds Norway to do. What is being discussed is the Svalbard "EEZ". Here Norway allows fishing based on tradition, but maintains that it could establish a proper EEZ it wanted to as there are no limitations to Norwegian sovereignty outside of the territorial waters in the treaty. I think the sentence should be changed or removed. -- Nidator 15:54, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
