On the morning of 17/7 (local time), at the United Nations headquarters in New York, USA, Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang, Head of the Permanent Delegation of Vietnam to the United Nations, and the working delegation of Foreign Office The delegation led by Ambassador Trinh Duc Hai, Deputy Chairman of the National Border Committee, officially submitted the dossier on the extended continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles of Vietnam in the Central East Sea 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-mentioned 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 .
Accordingly, when a coastal state has a continental shelf extending beyond 200 nautical miles from the baseline to calculate the breadth of the territorial sea, the coastal state must submit relevant information and data to the CLCS. Consider and make recommendations on the boundaries of the extended continental shelf.
The Submission on the Limits of the Extended Continental Shelf Beyond 200 Nautical Miles in the Central South China Sea Area is Vietnam's third submission. In May 2009, Vietnam submitted a separate Submission on the Limits of the Extended Continental Shelf Beyond 200 Nautical Miles in the Northern South China Sea Area and a joint Submission with Malaysia on the Limits of the Extended Continental Shelf Beyond 200 Nautical Miles for the Southern South China Sea Area.
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 the submission of this Submission will not affect the division of 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 Verbale to the Secretary-General of the United Nations to express Vietnam's position on the Philippines' submission of the Extended Continental Shelf Limits beyond 200 nautical miles in the East Sea on June 14, 2024.
Sources: https://kinhtedothi.vn/viet-nam-nop-de-trinh-ranh-gioi-them-luc-dia-mo-rong-o-khu-vuc-giua-bien-dong.html
