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Re: Distances to Kerang Selatin

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aletheia kallos <[log in to unmask]>

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aletheia kallos <[log in to unmask]>

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Sat, 24 May 2008 17:50:48 -0700

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kerang selatin
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/imagegallery/store/phpbULgrK.jpg

but it seems i may not be so wet here after all
according to the following comment from
http://forumforforeignaffairs.blogspot.com/2008/02/icj-case-malaysia-singapore-dispute.html

> a more profound factor that transcends the
Malaysia-Singapore dispute that the ICJ should
consider with utmost sincerity in its ruling: the
potential precedents involving maritime delimitation
and island sovereignty. After all the debate and the
deliberations in the ICJ, in the final vote Singapore
may very well emerge victorious. Ruling in favor of
Singapore, though, particularly on the basis of its
maintenance of the lighthouse, could set a
groundbreaking precedent. To do so would in effect
reward Singapore for building a structure on a
neglected, yet legitimately disputed island. Pedra
Branca is by no means the only neglected island that
is the territory of a nation; many such islands dot
the Pacific, Atlantic, and, for that matter, the
entire globe. Other nations may be emboldened by this
ruling to start building and maintaining structures on
sparsely maintained islands around the world,
heightening tensions between the various nations that
have claimed islands and potentially wreaking havoc on
the existing maritime boundaries and exclusive
economic zones. Such aggressive action would not be a
good thing for the ICJ – and by extension the UN – to
support, given that the very nature of the UN is to
try to facilitate peace and international cooperation.
A precedent such as this would likely further
discredit the UN and international law itself and
might call into question other UN statutes. The ICJ
has a chance to make a very big impact indeed with
this case for better or, more likely, for worse, if it
rules in favor of Singapore.

so
a guru i am not in any case
but rather i am sitting at your feet for this one 
victor martin barbara david et al

--- Professor Victor Prescott <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> Apparently sovereignty over Kerang Selatin (South
> Ledge) was not 
> decided by the Court.
> 
> The following description of the feature comes from
> 'Malacca Strait 
> and West Coast of Sumatra Pilot' (1971),
> Hydrographer of the 
> [British] Navy. p.204
> 
> 'South Ledge consists of three rocks, the northern
> of which dries  8 
> feet (2m4), and lies about 2 miles
> south-south-westward of Horsburgh 
> Lighthouse: the others do not dry. They are steep-to
> and are nearly 
> always marked by heavy tide-rips or by breakers.'
> 
> Measurements from Kerang Selatin to the nearest
> points on the 
> territory of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore on
> the British 
> Admiralty chart  2403 (2004) produce the following
> results.
> 
> Indonesia. Tanjong[Point] Sading on the north coast
> of Pulau Bintan. 
> 5.7 nautical miles
> 
> Malaysia. Middle Rocks. 1.7 nautical miles.
> 
> Singapore. Pedra Branca. 2.1 nautical miles.
> 
>   Article 13 of UNCLOS  states:
> 
> 1. A low-tide elevation is a naturally formed area
> of land which is 
> surrounded by and above water at low-tide but
> submerged at high-tide. 
> Where a low-tide elevation is situated wholly or
> partly at a distance 
> not exceeding the breadth of the territorial sea
> from the mainland or 
> an island, the low-water line on that elevation may
> be used as the 
> baseline for measuring the breadth of the
> territorial sea,
> 
> 2. Where a low-tide elevation is situated at a
> distance exceeding the 
> breadth of the territorial sea from the mainland or
> an island it has 
> no territorial sea of its own.
> 
> It appears that Malaysia has the best claim to
> Kerang Selatin. That 
> is the Malaysian name on the British Chart.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Victor
> 



      

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