Hearing at The Hague on Indo-Bangla maritime boundary

Attorney General G E Vahanvati is leading the country at the hearing concerning the delimitation of maritime boundary between Bangladesh and India at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague from today.
The Oral Hearings before the Arbitral Tribunal are scheduled to take place at the PCA till December 18, 2013 and the Indian delegation for the hearing would be led by Attorney General Vahanvati, who would be introducing India's case before the Arbitral Tribunal today, External Affairs Ministry said.
On October 8, 2009, Bangladesh instituted arbitral proceedings concerning the delimitation of the maritime boundary with India pursuant to Article 287 and Annex VII, Article 1 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

As Bangladesh submitted its written arguments on May 31, 2011 encompassing all maritime zones (territorial sea, exclusive economic zone, continental shelf and outer continental shelf), India made the counter move in 2012 by submitting its written arguments on behalf of their demand to PCA.
The hearing will be crucial for future maritime boundary disputes, especially with regards to the adaptation of non- conventional demarcation of disputed maritime boundaries.
Significantly, Bangladesh won a landmark verdict against Myanmar on March 14, 2012 at the ITLOS and through the verdict, Bangladesh sustained its claim to the 200-nautical- mile exclusive economic and territorial rights in the Bay of Bengal.