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Iraq and Iran: Territorial Waters

Volume 700: debated on Friday 25 April 2008

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What is the procedure for securing international recognition of the boundary line between potentially overlapping territorial waters. [HL3156]

If two coastal states cannot agree on a boundary between their territorial seas then they may have an option to go to a dispute settlement mechanism, such as the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, or arbitration.