The much-awaited verdict on the delimitation of the Bangladesh and India maritime boundary will be announced on Tuesday.
Published : 08 Jul 2014, 10:47 AM
Foreign minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali will release the Netherlands-based Permanent Court of Arbitration’s (PCA) verdict at a press briefing at about 2pm, the ministry says.
Dhaka received the copy of the judgment on Monday.
The court has informed both parties of the verdict but an embargo restricts them from making it public before the passing of 24 hours.
Bangladesh went in for arbitration over the delimitation of maritime boundary under the United Nations Convention on Law of Sea (UNCLOS) on Oct 8, 2009.
The hearings ended in Dec last year when both sides argued their case before the PCA at the Netherlands capital, The Hague.
The argument focused on issues including the location of the land boundary terminus, the delimitation of the territorial sea, the exclusive economic zone, and the continental shelf within and beyond 200 nautical miles.
The spokesperson of India’s external affairs ministry, Syed Akbaruddin, said during his minister Sushma Swaraj’s Dhaka visit that both countries would act in accordance with the verdict since they went to the court “voluntarily”.
“Let me assure you both India and Bangladesh feel that as good neighbours as peaceful countries we will both fulfil the requirements that stem out of any outcome of that process…because both went voluntary,” he said in a press conference on June 26.