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PH Plan to ask UN to extend 200-mile EEZ
Topic Started: Feb 19 2013, 03:27 AM (706 Views)
Santi Kampilan
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Interesting move if it happens. PH is testing the waters what the other reactions will be. Although you may say this is part II of last year's approval of the Eastern side (including Benham Rise), nevertheless, this will test the limits of UNCLOS and puts the burden on UN to resolve the competing claims. The bigger repercussion is debunking China's 9 dash line scam claim.
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MANILA - The Philippines plans to stake its claim before the United Nations on an area further outward from its western continental shelf to bolster sovereignty over territories in the West Philippine Sea.

Department of Energy (DOE) Undersecretary Ramon V. Oca said government agencies led by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) are preparing "the second part" of the country's claim over its continental shelf.

"If that is approved at the UNCLOS, that means we have the exclusive right to explore and exploit the resources within the continental shelf," Oca said, referring to the UN Convention on the Law of the Seas.

Under the UNCLOS, a coastal state's continental shelf extends 200 miles from its baselines. Claims beyond this limit are filed before the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (UNCLCS) for resolution.

Last year, the UNCLCS approved the country's claim over its eastern continental shelf, which covers the Benham Rise, an undersea landmass spanning a 13 million hectare area in the offshore northeastern tip of Luzon.

The western flank of the Philippines' extended continental shelf covers parts of the West Philippine Sea.

Oca said the DOE has acquired seismic data from foreign oil and gas companies which had previously conducted exploration work in the area that "will form part of our basis."

However, the country's claims are still subject to those of its neighbors "because we might have overlapping claims [and] this has to be resolved by peaceful means," Oca said.

Besides China, the Philippines' extended western continental shelf may also overlap with territories being claimed by Vietnam and Malaysia.
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Another map with Oil and Gas resources, EEZ limits and Nine Dash Line.

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China's trying the same thing with the Senkakus.

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On 14 December 2012, the People's Republic of China submitted to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, in accordance with Article 76, paragraph 8, of the Convention, information on the limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of its territorial sea is measured in part of the East China Sea.

Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf

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I hope they are not making a mistake by telegraphing it. When the request for Benham Rise was lodge it was pretty low-profile, except in the latter months when a reply was expected.

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