Right of passage, in

international law International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards generally recognized as binding between states. It establishes normative guidelines and a common conceptual framework for ...

, means (approximately) a country's right for its ships to pass through the territorial

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of foreign states and straits used for international

navigation Navigation is a field of study that focuses on the process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another.Bowditch, 2003:799. The field of navigation includes four general categories: land navigation ...

.Florian H. Th. Wegelein (February 1999)
"Innocent Passage"
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