Undelimited Maritime Boundaries of the Asian Rim in the Pacific OceanIBRU, 2001 - 68 pages |
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Admiralty chart BA archipelagic baselines argue Article 121 Asian Rim basepoints Brevié Line British Admiralty chart British boundaries Brunei Cambodia Cape Celebes Sea Charney and Alexander continental shelf countries Diaoyu Dao Diaoyu Dao/Senkaku Islands discussions about deviations east EEZs 200nm wide encourage discussions equidistance line equidistance The line equidistance was constructed Figure Gulf of Thailand Hegura historic waters area Indonesia Indonesia and Malaysia inequitable maritime boundary Jiao Joint Development Zone Kingdom Hydrographic Office land boundary Liancourt Rocks Ligitan line of equidistance located low-tide elevation mainland coast Malaysia maritime claims Mercator projection Misaki negotiations offshore Palau Paracel Islands Phu Quoc Poulo Prescott Pulau Ligitan Russia scale Scarborough Reef Schofield sea and seabed seabed boundary seas 12nm wide Shima South China Sea South Korea southern sovereignty Spratly Islands Taiwan Tanjong Datu Taunton terminus territorial seas 12nm territorial waters Tho Chu treaty limits tri-junction United Kingdom Hydrographic vicinity Vietnam Vietnamese
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Page 24 - Pending agreement as provided for in paragraph 1, the States concerned, in a spirit of understanding and co-operation, shall make every effort to enter into provisional arrangements of a practical nature and, during this transitional period, not to jeopardize or hamper the reaching of the final agreement. Such arrangements shall be without prejudice to the final delimitation.
Page 55 - By the convention concluded between the President of the United States of America and His Britannic Majesty for the purpose of delimiting the boundary between the Philippine archipelago on the one hand and the State of North Borneo which is under British protection on the other hand, the sovereignty over certain islands which have...
Page 31 - Spain cedes to the United States the archipelago known as the Philippine Islands...
Page 55 - Spain relinquishes to the United States all title and claim of title, which she may have had at the time of the conclusion of the Treaty of Peace of Paris, to any and all islands belonging to the Philippine Archipelago...
Page 55 - ARTICLE I It is hereby agreed and declared that the line separating the islands belonging to the Philippine Archipelago on the one hand and the islands belonging to the State of North Borneo which is under British protection on the other hand shall be and is hereby established as follows: From...
Page 55 - Paris, to any and all islands belonging to the Philippine Archipelago, lying outside the lines described in Article III of that Treaty and particularly to the islands of Cagayan Sulu and Sibutu and their dependencies, and agrees that all such islands shall be comprehended in the cession of the Archipelago as fully as if they had been expressly included within those lines. The United States, in consideration of this relinquishment, will...
Page 45 - In essence, application of this principle, traditionally only applied in river boundary situations as it refers to a division along the deepest part of the deepest navigable channel...
Page 58 - Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei - lay claim to all or part of the Spratly and Paracel archipelagos and their surrounding maritime space. Of these six claimants, all save Brunei maintain a military presence on one or more islands.