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Document: Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea

The stage from the 14th Western Pacific Naval Symposium (WPNS) in Qingdao, China

The stage from the 14th Western Pacific Naval Symposium (WPNS) in Qingdao, China

The following is the April, 2014 version of the multi-national Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea (CUES) signed by 21 Pacific nations at the 14th Western Pacific Naval Symposium in Qingdao, China. CUES is a series of non-binding rules-of-the-road to prevent an escalation of tensions between different militaries at sea.