Victor, Aletheia and Int-Bounders,
Thanks for your interesting comments. The map contained in the judgment on
the Court's website is not clear in that it appears to mark the key features
with three stars. A good map or chart depicting the three features would be
helpful.
On a separate point, Aletheia, I cannot help feeling that the gold rush for
isolated rocks started a long time ago and , as recent messages indicate,
shows no sign of slowing down!
Kind regards,
David Anderson
----- Original Message -----
From: "aletheia kallos" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: [INT-BOUNDARIES] Malaysia-Singapore Decision
> hi victor & company all
>
> as you may know
> i have been concerned about the potential of this
> decision to set off a dangerously destabilizing global
> gold rush for guano rocks etc from which novel eez
> claims might ultimately be projected
>
> world war vii we dont need
>
> we already have the horn of africa unhelped by the
> hague
> as of the presently ongoing eritrea ethiopia fiasco
> or i should say unhelped by turtle bay
> rather than the hague
> just to be fair
>
> so
> tho i dont have an adequate map in front of me
> o
> o
> o
> hint hint
> m a r t i n
> can you do us another of your fantastic impromptu
> sketch maps here
> as you did for the hms cornwall operetta
> o
> o
> o
> i am already greatly heartened to realize that this
> court did at least have the wisdom to separate new
> singapore from indonesia by apparently or notionally
> enclaving any new singaporean seas entirely within
> malaysian seas
>
> i mean
> no new idmysg tripoints
> it seems
> on first glance at the mental map in my minds eye
>
> so bravo
>
> any potential damage has at least been limited to that
> extent
>
> but unless i am mistaken
> we will still be having some novel singaporean eez
> here
> wont we
>
> & novel eez possibilities we dont at all need
>
> am i correct
>
> & if so
> what the hell do we do now
>
> yours ever
> ak md
>
> --- Professor Victor Prescott <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues.
>>
>> I have just heard that the Court decided to award
>> Pedra Branca to
>> Singapore and Middle Rocks to Malaysia.
>> Apparently no decision was made in respect of
>> Karang Selatin [South
>> Ledge]. Karang Selatin is a low-tide elevation about
>> 1.7 nm south of
>> Middle Rocks. It consists of three rocks of which
>> only the most
>> northerly dries about 2.4 metres. This low-tide
>> elevation lies
>> within Malaysia's 12 nm territorial sea generated by
>> Middle Rocks.
>> Malaysia will be able to claim the feature according
>> to Article 13 of
>> UNCLOS.
>>
>> The decision appears to restrict Singaporean claims
>> to areas
>> northwards from Pedra Branca. An area within lines
>> of strict
>> equidistance north of Pedra Branca would enclose an
>> area about 160
>> square nm.
>>
>> It will be interesting to see whether Singapore can
>> secure strict
>> lines of equidistance from such a small feature.
>>
>> Sincerely
>>
>> Victor
>>
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