World Courant
ANKARA
The Philippines on Saturday submitted a declare with the UN to an prolonged continental shelf (ECS) within the South China Sea, the nation’s Overseas Ministry stated.
In an announcement, the ministry stated the nation’s mission on the UN submitted data to the UN Fee on the Limits of the Continental Shelf to register the nation’s entitlement to an prolonged continental shelf within the West Palawan area within the South China Sea.
“Beneath article 76 of the UN Conference on the Legislation of the Sea (UNCLOS), a coastal State such because the Philippines is entitled to ascertain the outer limits of its continental shelf comprising the seabed and subsoil of the submarine areas extending past 200 nautical miles (NM) however to not exceed 350 NM from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured,” it stated.
Manila and Beijing have witnessed bilateral relations spiral down on account of a longstanding dispute over territory within the South China Sea.
Beijing claims huge maritime territory within the South China Sea below its so-called nine-dash line, which The Hague-based Everlasting Court docket of Arbitration stated in 2016 has no authorized foundation below worldwide legislation.
Nonetheless, China has rejected the ruling, saying that it isn’t legitimate, and has been in negotiations with the Affiliation of Southeast Asian Nations since 2002 for a code of conduct for the disputed sea.
The Philippines’ Overseas Ministry Assistant Secretary for Maritime and Ocean Affairs Marshall Louis Alferez stated the submission of his nation to the UN is a declaration not solely of Manila’s maritime entitlements below the UNCLOS but in addition of the nation’s dedication to the accountable software of its processes.
“Incidents within the waters are likely to overshadow the significance of what lies beneath,” he stated.
Earlier this month, on the Shangri-la Dialogue in Singapore, the Philippines’ President Ferdinand Marcos Jr stated: “If by a willful act a Filipino — not solely serviceman however even Filipino citizen — is killed … that’s what I feel very, very near what we outline as an act of conflict and due to this fact we’ll reply accordingly.”
Later, China stated his feedback had been designed to “intentionally distort and hype up the maritime scenario.”
*Writing by Islamuddin Sajid
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