India-BD maritime boundary verdict July 2

The judgement on the maritime boundary delimitation case between Bangladesh and India will be delivered on July 2 at the Hague, a senior Bangladesh Navy official has said. The hearings ended in December last year when both sides argued their case before the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) at the Netherlands capital. The argument focussed 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. Bangladesh earlier won an arbitration case against Myanmar over the maritime boundary in the Bay of Bengal in 2012 at International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in Hamburg, Germany. Bangladesh went in for arbitration over the delimitation of the maritime boundary under the United Nations Convention on Law of Sea (UNCLOS) on Oct 8, 2009. Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali, former foreign minister Dipu Moni, Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque and Secretary for Maritime Affairs Mohammad Khurshed Alam spoke in last hearing in Dec, the foreign ministry earlier said. Attorney General Goolam Vahanvati led the Indian side, according to bdnews24.com.