The Spratly islands comprised an area of hundred and fifty features in the South China Sea (SCS) and on of the littoral States which have obtained their claims to sovereignty to them. The present article analyses under the rules of international law of the sea, the rules that govern the regime of islands. We should take in consideration that all the boundary States has claimed to sovereign over ths islands. China has put forward much documentation supporting the chinese claim based on historical and discovery occupation in the region. Taiwan demonstrates legal bases of claims in the SCS establishing a physical presence on the Spratlys after the japanese withdrawal after world war II. Other States that includes activities in the area of SCS is Vietnam, Philippines, Brunei and Malaysia. There is also explained that a discusses of a continental shelf, the maritime zones, the purpose of the boundary solution has involved also another point of analysis: the protection of the environment in the Spratly region and especially after the 1997. Governments of the region should have start to think and act seriously on environmental questions as a new consequences of various crisis in the last years.
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