...exercised is a matter for each state to decide, since in accordance with the first sentence of article 5 each state shall fix the conditions for the grant of its nationality to ships. "Ships which meet these conditions, as determined by the state of registry, acquire through that registry...

...of 1958 (which was ratified by the United States Senate on May 26, 1960) provides pertinently: ' i. Each State shall fix the conditions for the grant...nationality of the State whose flag they are entitled tofly.... ' 2. Each State shall issue to ships to which it has granted the right to fly its flag documents...

...on the High Seas of 1958 was invoked in support of this contention. That Article itself provides: ' Each State shall fix the conditions for the grant...in its territory, and for the right to fly its flag . . .' " The Court having reached the conclusion that the determination of the largest ship-owning...

...registration of ships. Article 5 of the Geneva Convention on the High Seas of 1958 provides a) that each State shall fix the conditions for the grant...in its territory and for the right to fly its flag ; b) that ships have the nationality of the State whose flag they are entitled to fly; c) that there...

...29 of the ILC draft emerged from the melting pot of Committee II in the following guise: " 1 . . . Ships have the nationality of the State whose flag they are entitled to fly. Nevertheless, for purposes of recognition of the national character of the ship by other States, there...

...all to several sections of the Convention on the High Seas. Article 5 of the Convention states that each State shall fix the conditions for the grant of its nationality to ships and the registration of ships in its territory. There must be a genuine link between the State and...

..., for the registration of vessels in its territory and for the rifjht to fly its flag. j 2. Vessels have the nationality of the State whose flag they are entitled to J fly. There must exist a genuine link between the State and the vessel; in particular, the State must...

...legal regime applicable to them. It provides that each State shall fix the conditions for the granting of its nationality to ships, for the registration...of the State whose flag they are entitled to fly, but there must exist a genuine link between the State and the ship. Ships shall sail under the flag...

...State, whether coastal or not, has the right to sail ships under its flag on the high seas. ARTICLE 5 1. Each State shall fix the conditions for the grant...ships in its territory, and for the right to fly its flng. Ships have the nationality of the State whose flag they are entitled to fly. There must exist...

...Nationless ships are not afforded protection under the treaty, see Article 6, CHS ; and ships are deemed to have the "nationality of the state whose flag they are entitled to fly." Article 5, CHS (emphasis added) . See Restatement (Second) of The Foreign Relations Law of the United...