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Commission on limits of continental shelf convenes to examine submission of Brazil.

Publication: M2 Presswire
Publication Date: 31-AUG-04 		Format: Online
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M2 PRESSWIRE-31 August 2004-UN: Commission on limits of continental shelf convenes to examine submission of Brazil(C)1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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New York, - The Fourteenth Session of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf will be convened for three weeks, from 30 August to 17 September 2004, to examine the submission by Brazil regarding the outer limits of its continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles. This is the second submission by a coastal State to establish the outer limits of an extended continental shelf -- the first was that of the Russian Federation, which was received in December of 2001.

The submission, containing data and information on the proposed outer limits of the continental shelf of Brazil beyond 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured (often referred to as an extended continental shelf), was delivered to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on 17 May 2004 by officials of the Brazilian Mission. This submission was made pursuant to article 76, paragraph 8, of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982, which came into...

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