Michelen defends territorial law

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Carlos Michelen, an ambassador attached to the Dominican Foreign Ministry's Oceanography Department, has said that claims that the proposed law would create conflicts with neighboring nations were nonsense. On Monday, former Armed Forces Minister, Vice-Admiral Sigfrido Pared Perez said that if the Dominican Republic were to become an "archipelago state", it would create conflicts with Haiti, Venezuela, Colombia, the United States and Great Britain. Ambassador Michelen remarked that it was illogical that resistance to the legislation should come from inside the country when there has been no opposition from any foreign entity. Michelen said that the Dominican frontier should conform to the standards set by the Convention on the Seas and the United Nations.

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