Here's what the U.N. thinks it has the power to do.  Every country is entitled to the 200-mile exclusive economic zone from their coastlines.  Each country has exclusive use to the fishing resources and the mineral resources below the seabeds.  This 200-mile EEZ is not the problem.

     Beyond 200 miles it is possible that outercontinental shelf exists, that is, seabeds that continue downward slopes from the coastlines.  Under the U. N. Convention on the Law of the Sea the U.N. thinks that each country is entitled to these additional outercontinental shelves, and that it has the power to award them to any country that claims them after a waiting period.

     The Russian government has made claims to these extra outercontinental shelves in the Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea.  They are shown as the dark cross-hatched areas on the two maps below, as provided by the Russian government.

     The problem is that much of these dark cross-hatched areas are being measured from 8 American islands.  In the Arctic Ocean these are Wrangell, Herald, Bennett, Henrietta, and Jeannette Islands.  In the Bering Sea at the end of the Aleutian chain are Copper Island, Sea Lion Rock, and Sea Lion Rock.  The claimed areas are in the tens of thousands of square miles.  A bigger problem for the American public is that the U. S. State Department refuses to protest this illegal use of American territory for the Russian government.  It's time for the State Department to stand up both to the Russians and to the United Nations.  Congress needs to investigate and stop this damage to the American public.

     This U.N. scheme is shamelessly presented on the website www.un.org.  Its Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf is the agency carrying out this takeaway of American sovereignty.