Pleadings, Minutes of Public Sittings and Documents/Mémoires, Proces-Verbaux des Audiences Publiques et Documents (2023).

• Superior document: Pleadings, Minutes of Public Sittings and Documents / Mémoires, Procès-Verbaux des Audiences Publiques et Documents Series ; v.33
• Author: ITLOS.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Pleadings, Minutes of Public Sittings and Documents / Mémoires, Procès-Verbaux des Audiences Publiques et Documents Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1090 pages)

This volume contains the pleadings, minutes of sittings and other documents concerning: Delimitation of the maritime boundary in the Indian Ocean (Mauritius/Maldives), Merits. Le présent volume reproduit les mémoires, les procès-verbaux d'audiences et d'autres documents concernant : Délimitation de la frontière maritime dans l'océan Indien (Maurice/Maldives), fond.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Pleadings - Mémoires -- MEMORIAL OF THE REPUBLIC OF MAURITIUS, 25 MAY 2021 -- Annex 6 -- Annex 7 Republic of Mauritius, Presentation to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf on the Submission Concerning the Southern Chagos Archipelago Region, New York: - Opening Statement, August 2019 -- - Legal Presentation, 14 August 2019 -- - Concluding Remarks, 14 August 2019 -- Annex 8 Letter from Chairperson of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf to the Permanent Representative of Mauritius to the United Nations, 16 August 2019 -- Annex 9 Turning Points for Equidistance Line -- Annex 2 "ITLOS rules in favour of Mauritius following dispute over maritime boundaries", Matrix Chambers, 29 January 2021 -- Annex 3 Official governmental website of the Republic of Mauritius, "About Chagos Archipelago", accessed 24 November 2021 -- Annex 7 Constitution of the Republic of Maldives, 2008 (extract) -- Annex 8 Environment Protection and Preservation Act of the Maldives (Law No. 4/93, as amended by Law No. 12/2014) (extract) -- Annex 9 United Nations, Sustainable Development Goals, "Maldives: Taking Action for Sustainable Development", July 2017 -- Annex 10 The Commonwealth Blue Charter, "Maldives to co-champion action on coastal fisheries for Commonwealth", 4 January 2021 -- Annex 11 Fisheries Act of the Maldives (Act No. 14/2019) (extracts) -- Annex 12 General Fisheries Regulation of the Maldives (Regulation No: 2020/R-75) (extract) -- Annex 14 Marine Stewardship Council, "Tuna fishing in the Maldives", October 2017 -- Annex 15 Marine Stewardship Council, Track a Fishery, "Maldives pole &amp -- line skipjack tuna", 29 November 2012 -- Annex 24 International Pole &amp.

Line Foundation, "Joint NGO Statement on the urgency of adopting an interim plan for rebuilding the Indian Ocean yellowfin tuna stock", 3 June 2021 -- Annex 25 IMPACT2C, Policy Brief No. 3, "Effects of 2°C Warming", November 2015 -- Annex 26 Sally Brown and others, "Land raising as a solution to sea-level rise: An analysis of coastal flooding on an artificial island in the Maldives" (2019) J. Flood Risk Management 2020:13 (Suppl. 1) (extracts) -- Annex 27 United Nations General Assembly, Sixth Committee, 75th session, 13th plenary meeting, 5 November 2020, Statement of the Maldives on Agenda Item 80: Report of the International Law Commission on the Work of its Seventy-Second Session -- Annex 29 Fifty-First Pacific Islands Forum, "Declaration on Preserving Maritime Zones in the Face of Climate Change-related Sea-Level Rise", 6 August 2021 -- Annex 30 Alliance of Small Island States, Press Release: "Nauru, Maldives, and St Lucia announce newClimate Action Plans", 4 December 2021 -- Annex 31 Office of the President of the Republic of Maldives, Press Release: "President presents Maldivian 'Climate Smart Resilient Islands Initiative' at UN Climate Action Summit as replicable and sustainable development model for SIDS", 23 September 2019 -- Annex 32 Coalition for Fair Fisheries Arrangements, Policy Brief: "EU-Mauritius SFPA negotiations: Tuna stocks sustainability, post-covid recovery for the local sector and transparency", 6 April 2021 -- Annex 34 "Mauritius: Grounded Chinese flagged fishing vessel response", Africanews, 3 September 2021 -- Annex 35 Mohideen Wafar and others, "State of Knowledge of Coastal and Marine Biodiversity of Indian Ocean Countries", 31 January 2011, PLoS ONE 6(1): e14613 (extracts).

Annex 36 Charles Sheppard and others, "Reefs and islands of the Chagos Archipelago, Indian Ocean: why it is the world's largest no-take marine protected area", Aquatic Conserv. 2012 Mar -- 22(2): 232 (extracts) -- Annex 37 Heather Koldewey and others, "Potential benefits to fisheries and biodiversity of the Chagos Archipelago/British Indian Ocean Territory as a no-take marine reserve", Marine Pollution Bulletin 60 (2010) 1906 (extract) -- Annex 38 British Indian Ocean Territory, "Marine Protected Area" -- Annex 39 Chagos Conservation Trust, "The Chagos Archipelago" -- Annex 40 Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, "Chagos Archipelago: Global Reef Expedition Final Report", Vol. 13, 24 February 2021 (extracts) -- Annex 42 Agreement between Sri Lanka, India and Maldives concerning the Determination of the Trijunction Point between the three Countries in the Gulf of Mannar, 23, 24 and 31 July 1976 -- Annex 43 "Inauguration of NSA Trilateral Secretariat: A step forward for maritime security cooperation with Sri Lanka, and the Maldives", Financial Express, 4 March 2021 -- Annex 44 "Maldives and India Sign MoU to Augment Marine Safety Through LRIT System Cooperation", Corporate Maldives, 30 September 2021 -- Annex 48 Maritime Zones Act 2005 (Act No. 2 of 2005), 1 April 2005 (extracts) -- Annex 50 Deposit by the Republic of Mauritius of charts and lists of geographical coordinates of points, pursuant to article 16, paragraph 2, and article 47, paragraph 9, of the Convention, UN Doc M.Z.N.63.2008.LOS, 27 June 2008 (in English and French) -- Annex 55 Minutes of the Negotiations between the Representatives of the Government of the Republic of Maldives and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for the Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary between the Maldives and the Chagos Archipelago, 19 November 1992.

Annex 61 United Nations, Meetings Coverage of the United Nations General Assembly Plenary, 73rd session, 83rd and 84th meetings, "General Assembly Welcomes International Court of Justice Opinion on Chagos Archipelago, Adopts Text Calling for Mauritius' Complete Decolonization", 22 May 2019 -- Annex 63 Diplomatic note 2021/UN/N/16 from the Permanent Mission of the Republic of the Maldives to the United Nations to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, 15 July 2021 -- Annex 67 British Indian Ocean Territory, "Terrestrial Protected Areas" -- REPLY OF THE REPUBLIC OF MAURITIUS, 14 APRIL 2022 -- Annex 1 Ola Oskarsson and Thomas Mennerdahl, Geodetic Survey of Blenheim Reef, 22 February 2022 -- Annex 2 Dr David Dodd, Assessment of methods used to determine the vertical relationship between Blenheim Reef and various vertical datums -- including: WGS 84 Ellipsoid, EGM08 Geoid, MSL, LAT and HAT vertical references, 28 March 2022 -- Annex 4 Chagos Archipelago: High-Tide Features Depicted on BA Admiralty Charts 3, 725, 726 and 727 -- Annex 7 Note verbale No. 01/2021 (1197/28) dated 1 December 2021 from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International Trade, Mauritius, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maldives -- Annex 10 Note verbale 25-E2/MUS-A/2022/1 dated 13 January 2022 from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maldives, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International Trade, Mauritius -- Annex 11 Letter dated 17 January 2022 from the Agent of Mauritius to the Registrar of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea -- REJOINDER OF THE REPUBLIC OF MALDIVES,15 AUGUST 2022 -- Annex 1 Details of the Bleu De Nîmes, accessed 5 August 2022 -- Annex 2 UK Chagos Support Association, "Chagossians' trip to islands - Comment and reaction", updated 14 February 2022.

Annex 3 Republic of Mauritius, "Mauritius to undertake first scientific survey in Chagos Archipelago waters since Independence", 7 February 2022 -- Annex 4 "Chagos Islands: Mauritian flag raised on British-controlled islands", BBC, 14 February 2022 -- Annex 6 Statement delivered by H.E. Mr Jagdish D. Koonjul, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Republic of Mauritius to the United Nations, on 29 June 2022 during the UN Oceans Conference held in Lisbon, Portugal -- Annex 9 Caribbean Birding Trail, "Little Tobago", accessed 5 August 2022 -- Annex 10 Tobago Beyond, "Little Tobago Island", accessed 5 August 2022 -- Annex 11 Diplomatic note 2022/UN/N/25 from the Permanent Mission of the Republic of the Maldives to the United Nations to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, 13 June 2022 -- Annex 12 Diplomatic note No. 08/19 from the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Mauritius to the United Nations to the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Maldives to the United Nations, 7 March 2019 -- Annex 15 United Nations, Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, "Preliminary information indicative of the outer limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles" (note at base of page), updated 10 March 2022 -- Annex 16 United Nations, Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, "Submissions, through the Secretary-General of the United Nations, to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, pursuant to article 76, paragraph 8, of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982", updated 31 May 2022.

Annex 17 United Nations, Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, "Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, Outer limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from the baselines: Submissions to the Commission: Submission of the Republic of Mauritius" (note in page), updated 16 June 2022.