Programme Cooperation Agreement 2010 – 2011

Other states that received support in preparing or finalising their submission document during 2011 include Madagascar, Tanzania, Seychelles, Bangladesh and Chile. In addition, preliminary discussions were held with Sierra Leone, Uruguay, Chile and Costa Rica, a clear demonstration of continued demand for the services provided by the initiative. i An anticipated outcome of the UNEP Shelf Programme is that relevant persons in governments and other institutions will have acquired sufficient technical expertise to gather and compile the specific data on outer shelf limits required for the State’s submission and to present this in the prescribed format and time. They should also be able to defend the submission to the CLCS when the time comes. The ultimate goal (impact) is that the Commission makes a recommendation on the

i The success of the Pacific Island regional cooperation on extended continental shelf delimitation is in no small part reflected in the development of a regional, inclusive approach to general boundary delimitation that holds the potential for strengthened collaboration among participants. The 2011 capacity building programme included technical and legal support for the negotiation of the 22 cases of unresolved boundaries in the region. The inclusion of maritime boundaries that were not originally foreseen has resulted in the expansion of the number of countries participating in the programme, which now totals 13 countries. 9 “The first expanded Pacific Island boundary delimitation workshop has achieved more in these past two weeks, to progress the legal establishment of maritime boundaries in the region, than has been achieved in the past 25 years.” Statement by Mark Alcock, Project Leader, Law of the Sea and Maritime Boundary Advice Project, Geoscience Australia, during the workshop held 11-22 July 2011 in Sydney, Australia

9. Cook Islands, Kiribati, Federated Sates of Micronesia, Palau, Tonga, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Niue, Samoa, Nauru and the Marshall Islands

South Paci c workshop participation 2007 to 2011

Federal States of Micronesia

Palau

Kiribati (Line Is.)

Nauru* Kiribati (Gilbert Is.)

Kiribati (Phoenix Is.)

Papua New Guinea

Tuvalu

Solomon Islands

Cook Islands

Samoa*

Vanuatu

Fiji

Tonga

Niue*

New Caledonia

1. February 2007 2. July 2007 3. February 2008 4. May 2008 5. November 2008 6. February 2009 7. February 2010 8. November 2010 9. July 2011

* States without entitlement for extended continental shelf that received technical assistance with mapping and settling other maritime boundaries

Exclusive Economic Zone of Workshop countries

Source: UNEP Shelf Programme

South Pacific workshop participation 2007 to 2011

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