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Joint Submission to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf concerning the Ontong Java Plateau by the Federated States of Micronesia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands : executive summary - 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of

The present submission to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf

('the Commission') is made by the Federated States of Micronesia, Papua New

Guinea and the Solomon Islands (hereinafter referred to collectively as ‘the three

coastal States’) pursuant to paragraph 8 of Article 76 of the 1982 United Nations

Convention on the Law of the Sea ('the Convention') in support of the establishment

by the three coastal States of the outer limits of the continental shelf that lie beyond

200 nautical miles (M) from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial

sea of the three coastal States is measured (hereinafter referred to as ‘the territorial

sea baselines’) in the Ontong Java Plateau Region.