RUDN Journal of LawRUDN Journal of LawВестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Юридические науки2313-23372408-9001Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)5417ArticlesСтатьиResearch ArticleInternational legal cooperation in the management of the transboundary rivers: Zambezi river caseМеждународное сотрудничество в сфере управления трансграничными водотоками на примере реки ЗамбезиSolntsevA MСолнцевАлександр МихайловичThe Department of International LawКафедра международного праваa.solntsew@gmail.comShumba Target-Таргет Шумба-The Department of International LawКафедра международного праваtt.shumba@gmail.comPeoples’ Friendship University of RussiaРоссийский университет дружбы народов150220132NO2 (2013)№2 (2013)22823607092016Copyright ©; 2016, Legal ScienceCopyright ©; 2016, Юридические науки2016Legal ScienceЮридические наукиhttps://journals.rudn.ru/law/article/view/5417Transboundary watercourses constitute an important reservoir providing perhaps the most critical natural resource essential to support life all over the world. Many governments depend on rivers straddling two or more countries to provide not only freshwater for their populations, but also hydro-electric power sources, recreation and other forms of socio-economic sustenance. The article is focused on the international legal regulation of the Zambezi River as one of the most significant international watercourse. Being the forth longest river in Africa, the Zambezi is shared by eight Southern African States and evaluates a quarter of a century of close cooperation in order to realize the Southern African Development Community (SADC) founding principles.В рамках статьи рассматриваются проблемы международного сотрудничества в области совместного использования трансграничных водотоков. Особое внимание уделяется международно-правовому регулированию совместного использования вод реки Замбези, которое активно развивается в рамках Сообщества развития Юга Африки (САДК).international lawinternational environmental lawtransboundary riversriparian statessustainable managementZambezi riverSADCмеждународное правотрансграничные водотокиустойчивое управлениеЗамбезиСАДК1.Agreement on the establishment of the Zambezi Watercourse Commission 2004. URL: http://www.icp-confluence-sadc.org/documents/agreement-establishment-zambezi-watercourse-commission-2004.2.Biswas A.K. Management of Transboundary Rivers and Lakes. — SpringerLink, 2008.3.Case relating to the Territorial Jurisdiction of the International Commission of the River Oder (United Kingdom, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden v. Poland). URL: http://www.worldcourts.com/pcij/eng/decisions/1929.09.10_river_oder.htm.4.Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses 1997. URL: http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/8_3_1997.pdf.5.Hildering A. International Law, Sustainable Development and Water Management. — Delft, Netherlands: Eburon Publishers, 2004.6.Priscoli J.D., Wolf A.T. Managing and Transforming Water Conflicts, Cambridge, 2009.7.Revised Protocol Shared Watercourses (2000). URL: http://www.sadc.int/documents-publications/show/Revised_Protocol_Shared_Watercourses.pdf.8.Sands Ph. Principles of International Environmental Law. — Cambridge University Press, 2012.9.The Helsinki rules on the uses of the waters of international river. URL: http://webworld.unesco.org/water/wwap/pccp/cd/pdf/educational_tools/course_modules/reference_documents/internationalregionconventions/helsinkirules.pdf.10.The Zambezi River Basin: A Multi-Sector Investment Opportunities Analysis. — The World Bank, 2010.11.Thomashausen A. The Enforcement and Recognition of Judgments and other Forms of Legal Cooperation in the SADC // The Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa. — 2002. — Vol. 34. — No 1. — P. 26–37.12.ZACPLAN. Agreement on the action plan for the environmentally sound management of the common Zambezi river system 1987. URL: http://www.fao.org/docrep/W7414B/w7414b0j.htm.13.Abashidze A.Kh., Solntsev A.M. Podzemnye vody — novyy ob’ekt mezhdunarodno-pravovogo regulirovaniya // Mezhdunarodnoe pravo — International law. — 2009. — № 1 (37). — S. 180–201.14.Solntsev A.M. Ot konflikta k sotrudnichestvu: rossiysko-kitayskie otnosheniya v ob-lasti upravleniya vodnymi resursami // Mezhdunarodnoe pravo — International law. — 2009. — № 1 (37). — S. 246–261.15.Solntsev A.M. Uchastie Rossii v mezhdunarodnom sotrudnichestve v oblasti sovmestno-go ispol’zovaniya i okhrany transgranichnykh vodnykh ob’ektov // Aktual’nye problemy sovremennogo mezhdunarodnogo prava: Materialy ezhegodnoy mezhvuzovskoy nauchno-prakticheskoy konferentsii. Moskva, 9–10 aprelya 2010 g. / Pod red. A.Kh. Abashidze, M.N. Kopylova, E.V. Kiselevoy. Chast’ II. — M.: RUDN, 2011. — S. 133–145.