Joint Submission to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf concerning the Ontong Java Plateau by the Federated States of Micronesia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands : executive summary - 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

Abstract

The present submission to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf ('the Commission') is made by the Federated States of Micronesia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands (hereinafter referred to collectively as ‘the three coastal States’) pursuant to paragraph 8 of Article 76 of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ('the Convention') in support of the establishment by the three coastal States of the outer limits of the continental shelf that lie beyond 200 nautical miles (M) from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea of the three coastal States is measured (hereinafter referred to as ‘the territorial sea baselines’) in the Ontong Java Plateau Region.