UN chief: national selfishness delaying global oceans deal
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP's earlier story follows below. LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Some countries has been holding up a global agreement on protecting the world's oceans because of their 'egoism," U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday. Some countries — which he did not identify — won't accept that the world's oceans belong to everyone, he said. 'International waters are ours,' Guterres insisted, referring to all the planet's inhabitants. The U.N. chief was with senior officials and scientists from more than 120 countries attending a five-day U.