Maritime Boundary

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Title Page Copyright Page Preface and acknowledgements Table of Contents List of charts Abbreviations PART ONE: SCOPE, LIMITS OF MARITIME ZONES, TECHNICAL ASPECTS 1. Introduction Scope Background 2. Outer limits of maritime zones A. Pre-1949 position B. International Law Commission: 1949–1956 C. The 1958 Conference and the Geneva Conventions The 1958 Geneva Conventions The Second United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, 1960 D. The Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS): 1973–1982 E. The 1982 Convention and the outer limits of maritime zones (1) Territorial sea (2) Baselines Normal baselines and related provisions Bays Straight baselines Archipelagic baselines Importance of baselines (3) Contiguous zone (4) Exclusive economic zone (5) Continental shelf (6) Islands Summing up 3. Delimitation between States with opposite or adjacent coasts A. Pre-International Law Commission B. International Law Commission: 1949–1956 C. The 1958 Conference and the Geneva Conventions D. UNCLOS and the 1982 Convention 4. Technical aspects Scale of charts Chart projection Nature of lines Geodetic datum and spheroid Literature PART TWO. TREATIES AND AGREEMENTS 5. Introduction 6. Asian Agreements A. The Gulf B. India and the neighbouring States C. Southeast Asia The Gulf of Thailand Agreement between Burma and Thailand D. Other Agreements Japan and the Republic of Korea E. Inter-regional Agreements Agreement between Sudan and Saudi Arabia Agreements between Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Australia Agreements in the South Pacific 7. African Agreements 8. Latin American Agreements South America and Central America The Caribbean Sea Inter-regional Agreements Mexico and the USA The Caribbean Sea 9. Agreements between Western European and other States The North Sea WEO Agreements in other areas Inter-regional Agreements 10. Eastern European (Socialist) Agreements 11. Treaties and Agreements: summary PART THREE: JUDICIAL, ARBITRAL AND OTHER DECISIONS 12. Judicial, arbitral and other decisions A. North Sea Continental Shelf cases, 1969 B. Arbitration between the United Kingdom and France on delimitation of the continental shelf 1. The decision of 30 June 1977 Rules of international law Application of the rules Eddystone Rock Channel Islands Atlantic region 2. The decision of 14 March 1978 C. Controversy concerning the Beagle Channel Region (Chile/ Argentina), 1977 D. Aegean Sea Continental Shelf case (Greece v. Turkey), Judgment of 19 December 1978 E. Report of the Conciliation Commission on the continental shelf area between Iceland and Jan Mayen (Norway), 1981 F. Case Concerning the Continental Shelf (Tunisia/Libyan Arab Jamahiriya), Judgment of 24 February 1982 Maps Facts and the Judgment in outline Submissions of Parties The delimitation area Natural prolongation and equitable principles Natural prolongation and the delimitation area Relevant circumstances The practical method for delimitation The first sector The second sector Summing up Separate opinions Dissenting opinions Summing up PART FOUR: MARITIME BOUNDARY AT THE THIRD UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON THE LAW OF THE SEA, 1973 – 1982 13. Maritime boundary at the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea: 1973–1981 A. Pre-1973 B. 1974–1975: Caracas (1974) and Geneva (1975) Sessions of UNCLOS Geneva Session of UNCLOS (1975) and preparation of Informal Single Negotiating Text — SNT (1975) C. 1976–1977: Revised Single Negotiating Text — RSNT (May 1976); Informal Composite Negotiating Text — ICNT (July 1977) 1977: ICNT D. 1978–1980: Negotiating Group 7 on Maritime Boundary; Revisions to Informal Composite Negotiating Text — ICNT/Rev. 1 (April 1979) and ICNT/Rev.2 (April 1980) Negotiating Group 7 1980: ICNT/2-Rev. 2 (11 April 1980) E. 1980–1981: Draft Convention on the Law of the Sea — Informal Text (27 August 1980); Draft Convention on the Law of the Sea (formalised as A/CONF.62/L.78 on 28 August 1981) 1981: New compromise proposal 14. 1982: Adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea General statements: March 30–April 1, 1982 Amendments proposed Montego Bay, Jamaica: December 6–10, 1982 Summing up PART FIVE: CONCLUSIONS 15. Conclusions PART SIX: ADDENDUM 16. Addendum A. Treaties and Agreements (1) Agreement between the United Kingdom and France relating to the continental shelf boundary, 1982 (2) Agreement between France and Fiji relating to the economic zone boundary, 1983 (3) Memorandum of Understanding between Indonesia and Australia concerning provisional fisheries surveillance and enforcement arrangement, 1981 (4) Other developments Summing up B. Judicial, arbitral and other decisions (1) Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary in the Gulf of Maine Area (Canada/USA): Judgment of 12 October 1984 Background to Judgment, relevant maps Question before the ICJ Chamber Submissions of parties Canada United States Nature of the dispute The delimitation area History of dispute and claim lines of parties Principles and rules of international law relating to maritime delimitation ‘Fundamental norm’ of delimitation Equitable criteria and practical methods of delimitation Article 6 of the 1958 Convention not applicable Conduct of parties Delimitation criteria Practical methods Claim lines of parties The United States lines The Canadian lines Single maritime boundary determined by the Chamber Delimitation line determined by the Chamber Equitable result of delimitation line tested Separate opinion Dissenting opinion Assessment or appraisal (2) Other developments ANNEXES Annex 1. List of Agreements on maritime boundary Annex 2. Text of Agreements on maritime boundary (sample) 1. Agreement between India and Maldives on the Maritime Boundary in the Arabian Sea and Related Matters 2. Memorandum of Understanding between the Kingdom of Thailand and Malaysia on the Establishment of a Joint Authority for the Exploitation of the Resources of the Seabed in a Defined Area of the Continental Shelf of the Two Countries in the Gulf of Thailand 3. Agreement concerning the Boundary Line Dividing the Continental Shelf between Iran and Qatar, Done at Doha on 20 September 1969 4. Exchange of Notes between the United Republic of Tanzania and Kenya concerning the Delimitation of the Territorial Waters Boundary between the Two States 5. Treaty on Maritime Boundaries between the United States of America and the United Mexican States 6. Convention between the Government of the French Republic and the Government of the Spanish State on the Delimitation of the Continental Shelves of the Two States in the Bay of Biscay 7. Treaty between the United States of America and the Cook Islands on Friendship and Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary between the United States of America and the Cook Islands 8. Treaty between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Polish People’s Republic concerning the Boundary of the Continental Shelf in the Gulf of Gdansk and the South-Eastern Part of the Baltic Sea, Done at Warsaw on 28 August 1969 Annex III. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1982 (Text of Articles) A. Text of Articles on outer limits of maritime zones B. Text of Articles on baselines C. Text of Articles on delimitation of maritime zones between States with opposite or adjacent coasts BIBLIOGRAPHY