...geographical boundaries were artificially extended upwards. The Convention states that "every Power has complete and exclusive sovereignty over the air space above its territory". 8 Only in its second Article does it allow a right of innocent passage above each State's territory...

...the most vivid manner in Article 1 of the 1944 Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation: "every state has complete and exclusive sovereignty over the air space above its territory".9 important as the nuclear reductions themselves". See US Department of State, Current Policy,...

...seas. It has, however, some relevance to the question before us. After recognizing that "each power has complete and exclusive sovereignty over the air space above its territory", the first article of that Convention declares that "for the purpose of the present Convention the territory...

...practice and commercial treaties.32 29. "Art. I. The High Contracting Parties recognise that every power has complete and exclusive sovereignty over the air space above its territory." (italics supplied). The text of the Paris Convention is reproduced in 1 1 LNTS 173. 30. Goedhuis states...

...maintaining a bilateral system of negotiation is firmly rooted in the principles of the Chicago Convention that every State has complete and exclusive sovereignty over the air space above its territory62 and that international air transport services may be established on equality of opportunity.63...

...supra note 19. at Art. 1 which states that, "The High Contracting Parties recognize that every Power has complete and exclusive sovereignty over the air space above its territory. For the purpose of the present Convention the territory of a State shall be understood as including...

...formulated the Paris Convention on the Regulation of Aerial Navigation that declared: "Every power has complete and exclusive sovereignty over the air space above its territory." lt modified this by the provision that "Each contracting State undertakes in time of peace to accord...

...command of the air overhead. Article 1 declared: The High Contacting Powers recognize that every Power has complete and exclusive sovereignty over the air space above its territory. For the purpose of the present convention the territory of a State shall be understood as including...

...recognized. Article 1 of the 1944 Chicago Convention, 4 reaffirmed this fundamental principle, stating that every State "has complete and exclusive sovereignty over the air space above its territory". These treaty terms, and the practices which developed under them, have led to the acceptance of two...

...CHICAGO CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION 19441 Article 1 The contracting states recognise that every state has complete and exclusive sovereignty over the air space above its territory. Article 2 For the purposes of this Convention the territory of a state shall be deemed to be the land...