Dear Colleagues,
Further to my message on Sunday, the UN Division for Ocean Affairs and
Law of the Sea website is now indicating that The Bahamas provided
preliminary information on the outer limit of the continental shelf on
12 May. So it may be that all coastal states with continental shelf
beyond 200 nautical miles and which became parties to UNCLOS before 13
May 1999 have fulfilled their obligations under Article 4 of Annex II of
the Convention and subsequent agreements by States Parties.
m a r t i n
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From: Martin Pratt
Sent: 17 May 2009 12:31
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Subject: re: deadline day
Dear colleagues,
By my count there are five States which (i) became parties to UNCLOS
before 13 May 1999, (ii) are not zone-locked, and (iii) have not
provided at least preliminary information to the CLCS, namely: Antigua
and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Guatemala, the Marshall Islands and Nauru. My
sense is that of these five States only The Bahamas might have a
physical continental shelf extending beyond 200 nautical miles, but I am
open to correction on that point.
Equatorial Guinea submitted preliminary information to the CLCS on 14
May, technically missing its ten-year deadline by a day. I don't suppose
that it will be penalised when its full submission is eventually
considered by the Commission!
There are ten States Parties which are not zone-locked whose 10-year
clock is still ticking: Nicaragua (deadline = May 2010), Maldives
(November 2010), Bangladesh (July 2011), Madagascar (August 2011),
Tuvalu (December 2012), Kiribati (February 2013), Canada (November
2013), Denmark (November 2014), Morocco (May 2017) and Liberia
(September 2018). Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador,
Peru and the USA are non-zone-locked which have yet to become parties to
UNCLOS.
Regards,
m a r t i n
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Martin Pratt
Director of Research
International Boundaries Research Unit
Department of Geography
Durham University
Durham DH1 3LE
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)191 334 1964
Fax: +44 (0)191 334 1962
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On Thu, 14 May 2009 09:17:05 +0200, Oude Elferink, A. (Alex)
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>By the way, would you happen to know if there is any State which was
>facing the deadline of 12 May 2009 that has not made a submissions or
>submitted preliminary information?
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