Recommendations and final statement of the Port War Conference: Armed conflicts and the struggle for influence in the balance of international law

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Recommendations and final statement, War – Ports
The final statement issued by the International Scientific Conference on War – Ports: Armed Conflicts and the Struggle for Influence in the Balance of International Law conducted in university of Ibb and by video conference (zoom) during days 12,13 November 2022 /18,19 Rabi` al-Thani 1444 , organization of the Arabic democratic center Berlin ,Germany ,university of Ibb ,Yemen and university of Muhammad Fifth in Rabat .
The participants held the scientific session of the conference in a spirit of scientific integrity and instinct feeling of society issues and people in the Arab region and Yemen especially during the international affairs which is full of armed conflicts and disputes ;its reflects on aspects of life either political ,economic ,security ,health cultural or social aspect without any exception .
The interferes ,participations and discuses come out of some recommendations can be presented as follows:
-demanding the united nation to work on international law and conventions enforced regarding the ports and assisting the people rights in self-administration for their ports out of hands of aggressive countries that uses power so that international peace and security occurs .
– activating the role of the united nations to stand with the right of the Yemeni people to put out the custody of K.S.A and U.A.E on all the Yemeni ports and Socotra island because it is illegal influence and claiming for an economic sanctions on them for their negative role ,also ,requesting for compensation on the damages caused by their illegal role in the Yemeni ports in accordance of the international law
-making benefit from international disputes case between the disputants on the ports and working on building a free-market in the south of Arab peninsula in port of Eden.
-finding mechanism to save for Bab al-Mandab Strait a high protection state because of the amount of international trade goes through it ,its contribution in the power supply and connecting between the importers and exporters where the percentage of oil deals reaches 30% of the world oil trade .
– the importance of work on the legal cohesion between countries view Bab al-Mandab Strait to decrease the state of security ,stability and cases of economic and commercial benefit of the countries of strait
-the important of government of the region and Yemen to skip the fragile situation in Yemen and Horn of Africa because it is the prominent role that have influence on the strategic importance of Bab al-Mandab
-activating law enforcement of international law during the wars for protecting the port from assaults or closing during wars and armed conflicts for saving the international trading ,people movement and food security .
– improving the technology of port surveillance for reporting any violations occurs during the wars and armed conflicts.
– protecting ports in wars for simple work exercise and isolating it from any violations for the international trade work or exposing to stop .
-importance of holding the tasks in damaged people from war and siege and providing protection from risks to future of damaged people and their life insurance in regarding authorities
-implementation of ports war as genocide crimes.
-insuring that any violation of human rights that causes a sever suffers to civilians and causes health damages either physically or mentally are represented as an aspect of illegal factor to ports which can be qualified as inhuman crimes of the basic system of the international criminal court and included in its responsibility
-including any assault to any ports a crime of illegal exceeding on ports based on the rules and regulations of the international law

-activating the legitimacy of the international criminal courts in order to stop siege to any ports that may Couse hunger for civilians because it is a reflection of illegal exceeding to ports and regarded as war crimes prohibited by law .
– inserting an aggression crime considered as crimes happened during ports war according to article (8) repeated: in the basic system of the international criminal court which was verified in the resolution of the General Assembly for the united nation (3314/d)in December 1974.
-processing any inefficiency in some of rules of the basic system for the international criminal court with adding a protocol allows for research proving of the cases of foreign country involved in international armed conflicts in other country and considering that interferes as war crimes subjected committer to the international justice ;as the mentioned is a contribution to international peace and security , regarding the principles of equality between countries and presenting good space for trade based on legal competition .
-commitment to review the aspects that is considered as aggression crimes in order to conclude all committed by countries against other countries for territories and achieving their political and economic benefit in contraction with the principles of private law and the international law especially the principle of equality between countries and from that aspect imposing a negative siege or countries not costal or do not have ports .
-holding the scientific conference and looking for composing a convention stipulates international crimes penalize leaders and president in case of committing or ordering for committing any illegal actions contributes in practicing pressure on developing countries and that in the context of conflicts against other countries on international ports
the international community as a whole body and national legislators in legislation international conventions and laws should organize sea ports and its regarded issue that included issue of making protection , monitoring and processing mechanism to face ports war and making a limit of it
-the countries should add or insert the phenomena of international conflict on ports in educational ,civil and military program and providing access to information in regard and its regulation according to the national and international law
-the international community should ban using the sea ports as weapons or a play card for presuming pressure in its international conflict whatever the nation of it either armed ,civil or trade port .
-we advise to expand the Jurisdiction authority for the international justice court to include all individuals of international law not only the countries
-the united nation and its organizations should start study and discussion phenomena of international conflict and taking advantages of ports and making special international convention that organize all regarded issue of that phenomena and voting on it and put it out to reality
– the importance of canceling the differential Membership of the UN Security Council and the abolition of the right of veto so that these permanent members do not use their right of veto to obstruct the decisions of the Council or use them to serve their personal interests in matters brought before the Council
-The need for community institutions to inculcate the values of security education among members of society, as it is one of the most important basic requirements that establish the protection of the logical relationship between them in immunizing them from realizing the effects of all phenomena, the most important of which is the security field, in a way that enables them to contribute to the protection and stability of society, which requires all institutions to play their role in Establishing security education and consolidating security values among members of society and protecting them from security deviations
-The international community must fulfill its duty towards protecting the freedom of transportation and movement of humanitarian aid, including foodstuffs, health and medicine supplies, and materials involved in agricultural development and sustainable development of peoples, to prevent peoples from suffering from the scourge of health and food disasters, and others
-The need to activate and establish a specialized judiciary in maritime cases at the level of commercial courts, commercial appeals and the Court of Cassation is a useful necessity for deciding port cases
– Encouraging the private sector to invest, by simplifying the procedures for marine matter, is an important pillar for regulating the field of ports
-The need for the countries of the region to benefit from the positive effects of the Russian-Ukrainian crisis in improving their internal environment and addressing their weaknesses by taking advantage of the opportunities available to them and transforming threats into opportunities if they want to achieve their goals towards stability, growth and development for their people
-Establishing international protection mechanisms to prevent the repercussions of the port war between Russia and Ukraine from endangering global food security and without affecting the increase in wheat prices.
-The international community criminalizing the use of wheat as a strategic weapon and a criterion that determines the alignment of countries with or against one of the parties to this Russian-Ukrainian war
God bless.
Issued by the International Scientific Conference on War – Ports: Armed Conflicts and the Struggle for Influence in the Balance of International Law 13 November 2022 /19 Rabi` al-Thani 1444