(English version) Thailand Declaration of the Office of the Prime Minister concerning the Inner Part of the Gulf of Thailand, 22 September 1959

Country: Thailand

Sea: South China Sea

Scope: National

Document Language: English

  • Summary

This legal document contains Thailand’s Declaration of the Office of the Prime Minister concerning the Inner Part of the Gulf of Thailand, promulgated on 22 September 1959. In this Declaration, the Council of Ministers of Thailand declared and maintain the position, from time immemorial, that a certain part of the inner part of the Gulf of Thailand has the judicial status as a historic bay, and thus the water enclosed will form part of Thailand’s internal water.

Specific coordinates delimiting the said water part are provided in the Declaration.