Of the united kingdom was seeking reparations for the

of the United Kingdom was seeking reparations for the injury and death of His Majesty’s sailors
as well as for the damage to His Majesty’s ships. The Albanian government then argued that they
had the right to “regulate the passage of foreign warships through its territorial waters.”
1
“ Territorial sea baseline means the line defining the shoreward extent of the territorial sea of
the United States drawn according to the principles, as recognized by the United States, of the
Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone, 15 U.S.T. 1606, and the 1982 United
Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), 21 I.L.M. 1261. Normally, the territorial
sea baseline is the mean low water line along the coast of the United States.” 2 The territorial
baseline mixed with the right of passage means to me that a nation has not only the job but the
obligation to protect their territorial waters and their coastline.
There are quite a few things outlined in Article 19 which talk about innocent passage. The part