UNB, Dhaka :
The Netherlands-based Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) is likely to deliver its judgment on the maritime boundary dispute between Bangladesh and India on Tuesday.
A Bangladeshi diplomatic source confirmed the date. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not allowed to make any public comment on the issue.
The Foreign Ministry in Dhaka would not make any comment. A Toronto-based media outlet – notundesh.com quoting a lawyer and PCA sources
said the verdict would be announced on Tuesday. “We know the tribunal (PCA) will formally announce the verdict on July 8,” the report quoted the unidentified lawyer as saying.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina last week said the verdict was expected to be delivered within a week.
The hearing on the dispute on the Bay of Bengal maritime boundary between Bangladesh and India concluded at the PCA in December last year at The Hague.
During the hearing, both the parties presented their positions on certain key issues relating to the maritime boundary between the two States, including the location of the land boundary terminus between them, the delimitation of the Territorial Sea, the Exclusive Economic Zone, and the Continental Shelf within and beyond 200 nm.
Bangladesh won a landmark verdict against Myanmar on March 14, 2012 at the ITLOS. The verdict confirmed Bangladesh claim to the 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic and territorial rights in the Bay of Bengal.
