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Current Legal Developments

Current Legal Developments 533 Current Legal Developments Australia/Indonesia Treaty between the Government of Australia and the Government of the Republic of Indonesia Establishing an Exclusive Economic Zone Boundary and Certain Seabed Boundaries The problems of completing maritime boundary delimitation between Australia and Indonesia were considered earlier.' The two governments have solved the remaining problems in a comprehensive treaty that completes the maritime boundaries separating the domains of both countries. The whole suite of boundaries drawn from 1971 to 1997 provides a laboratory of boundary arrangements that include a single line separating the sea-bed and the water column, separate lines for those domains, a zone of co-operation and a zone created by a memorandum of understanding to allow traditional Indonesian fishermen to fish in specified Australian waters. No other set of national maritime boundaries possesses this diversity of negotiated solutions. The treaty was signed on 14 March 1997 and will come into force when the instruments of ratification are exchanged. The problems to be solved by the two countries included the extension of the 1972 sea-bed boundary and the 1981 provisional fisheries surveillance boundary westwards through the Timor Sea and their conversion, if possible, to a boundary separating their exclusive economic zones, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law Brill

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Brill
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0927-3522
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1571-8085
DOI
10.1163/157180897X00347
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533 Current Legal Developments Australia/Indonesia Treaty between the Government of Australia and the Government of the Republic of Indonesia Establishing an Exclusive Economic Zone Boundary and Certain Seabed Boundaries The problems of completing maritime boundary delimitation between Australia and Indonesia were considered earlier.' The two governments have solved the remaining problems in a comprehensive treaty that completes the maritime boundaries separating the domains of both countries. The whole suite of boundaries drawn from 1971 to 1997 provides a laboratory of boundary arrangements that include a single line separating the sea-bed and the water column, separate lines for those domains, a zone of co-operation and a zone created by a memorandum of understanding to allow traditional Indonesian fishermen to fish in specified Australian waters. No other set of national maritime boundaries possesses this diversity of negotiated solutions. The treaty was signed on 14 March 1997 and will come into force when the instruments of ratification are exchanged. The problems to be solved by the two countries included the extension of the 1972 sea-bed boundary and the 1981 provisional fisheries surveillance boundary westwards through the Timor Sea and their conversion, if possible, to a boundary separating their exclusive economic zones,

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The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1997

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