The submission of the Extended Continental Shelf Boundary in the Middle East Sea Area will not affect the maritime delimitation between Vietnam and relevant coastal countries on the basis of UNCLOS.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed that on July 17 (US East Coast time), at the United Nations headquarters in New York, Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang - Head of the Vietnamese Permanent Mission to the United Nations - and his delegation The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, led by Ambassador Trinh Duc Hai - Deputy Chairman of the National Border Committee, has officially submitted the Dossier to submit the boundary of the continental shelf extending beyond 200 nautical miles of Vietnam in the Mid-Sea Area. East to the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS).
On the same day, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a Statement on Vietnam's submission of the above submission.
The submission of the Continental Shelf Boundary Extension beyond 200 nautical miles is to exercise the rights and obligations of member states to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), stipulated in Article 76 of UNCLOS. .
When a coastal State has a continental shelf extending beyond 200 nautical miles from the baseline for calculating the breadth of its territorial sea, the coastal State is required to submit a Submission of relevant information and data to the Boundary Commission. The United Nations continental shelf reviews and makes recommendations on the boundaries of the extended continental shelf.
The submission of the Continental Shelf Boundary extending beyond 200 nautical miles in the Middle East Sea Area is Vietnam 's third submission . In May 2009, Vietnam submitted a separate Submission on the Continental Shelf Boundary extending beyond 200 nautical miles in the Northern East Sea Area and a Joint Submission with Malaysia on the Continental Shelf Boundary extending beyond 200 nautical miles in the Area. South East Sea.
In the Note sent to the Secretary General of the United Nations on the Submission of the Continental Shelf Boundary extending beyond 200 nautical miles in the Middle of the East Sea, Vietnam once again affirmed that submitting this Submission will not affect the work. maritime delimitation between Vietnam and relevant coastal countries on the basis of UNCLOS.
On this occasion, Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang and the delegation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam expressed their gratitude for the support of the United Nations in the process of Vietnam submitting its submissions in accordance with the relevant regulations of the United Nations. UNCLOS and CLCS.
On the same day, the Permanent Mission of Vietnam to the United Nations sent a Note to the Secretary General of the United Nations to express Vietnam's stance on the Philippines' submission of the Continental Shelf Boundary extending beyond 200 nautical miles in East Sea on June 14, 2024.
