Synonyms for international waters
in·ter·na·tional wa·ters

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1. high sea, international watersnoun

   the open seas of the world outside the territorial waters of any nation

   Synonyms:
   high sea

   Antonyms:
   territorial waters

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1. Bob Richards:

   It's not unlike fishing vessels in international waters, they don't own the water ... but they have a right to put nets in the water and put the fish on the decks and once the fish are there, they own the fish.

2. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu:

   (Netanyahu) himself killed, his army killed children in the playground. They killed our citizens and an American citizen in international waters. This is terrorism, nobody can argue about Israeli aggression in Jerusalem in the al-Aqsa mosque.

3. Admiral John Richardson:

   We don't really see any kind of limitation on whatever type of ship could pass through those waters, we see the Taiwan Strait as another (stretch of) international waters, so that's why we do the transits.

4. James Mattis:

   China's militarization of the South China Sea and aggressive action in international waters destabilizes the region and threatens shared efforts to promote security, the US will fly, sail, and operate wherever international law allows, and we encourage all nations to confidently exercise their right to do the same.

5. Robert Thomas:

   They have the capacity and the capability in international waters and international airspace anywhere on the globe. That's the important point, the decisions that are pending with regard to collective self-defense will clearly allow the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Forces to interact with, frankly, a lot of international partners, not just the US Seventh Fleet, in a more flexible fashion.