Bangladesh: amended submission on the outer limits of continental shelf lodged

Bangladesh has lodged an amended submission on the limits of its outer continental shelf in the Bay of Bengal to the United Nations (22 October 2020). The original submission to the CLCS was made on 25 February 2011. Subsequently, the maritime boundaries of Bangladesh with Myanmar and India were delimited in 2012 and 2014, through international adjudication process. The amended submission has been made to reflect the successful outcomes of those international processes. The press release from the Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations is available  here. The submission, as received by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, is available here.

Depiction of the Fixed Point defining the Outer Limits of the Continental Shelf of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. Source: People’s Republic of Bangladesh Amended Submission to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf Executive Summary

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