(English version) Agreement between India and Myanmar on the delimitation of the maritime boundary in the Andaman Sea, in the Coco Channel and in the Bay of Bengal on 23 December 1986

Country: India, Myanmar

Sea: Andaman Sea

Scope: Bilateral

Document Language: English

  • Summary:

This legal document contains the English version of the Agreement between India and Myanmar on the delimitation of the maritime boundary in the Andaman Sea, in the Coco Channel, and in the Bay of Bengal on 23 December 1986.

Article 1 of the Agreement lists the specific coordinates of 14 points (points 1 to 14) constituting the maritime boundary between Burma (Myanmar) and India in the Andaman Sea and in the Coco Channel. Article 2 of the Agreement states the coordinates of points 14, 15, and 16, whose connecting lines shall constitute the maritime boundary between the two countries in the Bay of Bengal. The extension of the maritime boundary between the two countries in the Bay of Bengal shall be done subsequently.

Notably, the final paragraph of Article 1 clarifies that the maritime boundary between India and Burma (Myanmar) will be extended from point 1 up to the trijunction point between India, Myanmar, and Thailand, which would be concluded in 1993, 7 years later after this Agreement.