(English version) Agreement between Burma (Myanmar) and Thailand on the delimitation of the maritime boundary between the two countries in the Andaman Sea on 25 July 1980
Country: Thailand, Myanmar
Sea: Andaman Sea
Scope: Bilateral
Document Language: English
- Summary:
This legal document contains the English version of the Agreement between Burma (Myanmar) and Thailand on the delimitation of the maritime boundary between the two countries in the Andaman Sea signed on 25 July 1980. Article 1.1 of the Agreement specifies the coordinates of the 9 points constituting the maritime boundary between the two state parties under the equidistance basis. Article 1.2 specifies that the segment of the maritime boundary comprising the lines connecting points 1,2,3,4, and 5 shall indicate the territorial sea boundary between the two countries. Article 1.3 states that the segment connecting point 5 through points 6.7.8. and 9 shall constitute the continental shelves boundary, and Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) between the two countries if Thailand establishes her EEZ (This Agreement was signed before the open-signing day of the UNCLOS III in 1982.)
Article 1.4 clarifies that the extension of the bilateral maritime boundary shall extend in the direction of and up to the maritime boundary trijunction point between Thailand, Burma, and India, which would be concluded in a Trilateral Agreement signed in 1993.
- Document: Agreement between Burma (Myanmar) and Thailand on the delimitation of the maritime boundary between the two countries in the Andaman Sea signed on 25 July 1980 (English version)
- Related document: Agreement between India. Myanmar, and Thailand Concerning the Determination of the Trijunction Point between the three Countries in the Andaman Sea on 27 October 1993 (English version)