AGREEMENT BETWEEN THAILAND AND BURMA ON MARITIME BOUNDARIES IN THE ANDAMAN SEA

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 4, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 3, 1981
• Content Type: CABLE

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FROM Amembassy RANGOON DATE:
SUBJECT: Agreement Between Thailand and Bu
Boundaries in the Andaman Sea
REF Rangoon 3121 IN
For INR/GE
August 3, 1981
Enclosed is a copy of the text of the agreement between
Thailand and Burma on the delimitation of the maritime
boundary between the two countries in the Andaman Sea.
Representatives of the two countries signed the agreement
on July 25, 1980, but the ratification exchange has not
taken place. Burma's Pyithu Hluttaw gave parliamentary
concurrence during the October 1980 session, and Thailand's
Parliament is expected to concur in the near future.
Enclosure:
Agreement Between Thailand and Burma on Mari
in the Andaman Sea
tiFPA
1981 A
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UG 10 AM 1: 49
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P/E:MCEaton
time Boundaries
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Enclosure to
Rangoon A-41
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11G',JMMIE112 BET JEN THE GOVER1 M 1T OF TH."' SOCIALIST
REPUBLIC OF THE UNION OF BUR&Ik AND TIE GOV 2RNL-"-NT
OF THE KINGDOM OF THAILAND ON THE DELIMITATION OF
THE M.RITIEE BOUNDARY BEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES
IN THE ANDAMAN SEA
THE GOV PNI,LEIT OF THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF THE
UNION OF BUI IA AND THE' GOVERNMENT OF THE ::I1GDO1-i OF
THAIL::ND,
DESIt I+G to strengthen the existing historical
bonds of friendship between the two countries, and
I AIRING to establish the maritime boundary
between the two countries in the Andaman Sea, and to
settle permanently the limits of the areas within
which the respective Governments shall exercise
sovereignty and sovereign rights,
HAVE AGREED as follows
ARTICLE 1
1. The maritime boundary between Burma and
thailand in the Andaman Sea is an equidistance line
formed by a series of straight lines connecting the
nine points specified hereunder in the sequence so
specified:
itude
Point No.
Latitude
Long
1.
9' 321
15"
97.
56'
20"
2.
9?34'
29"
97.
52'
10"
3.
~, 34'
5P'
97.
511
1211
4.
9' 35'
39"
97'
45'
29"
5.
9. 36'
02"
97.
431
29;"
6.
9' 37'
24"
97.
37'
36"
7?
9' 40'
35"
97'
26'
3611
8.
( 45'
30"
96'
29'
35"
9.
9. 38'
00"
95'
35'
25"
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2. That segment of the maritime boundary specifie6.
in paragraph I of this article extending from Point
1o.1 through Points Nos.2, 3 and 4 to Point 170.5
shall constitute the boundary between the territorial
sea of Burma and the territorial sea of Thailand.
3. That segment of the maritime boundary specified
in paragraph 1 of this Article extending from Point
No.5 through Points Nos.6, 7 and 8 to Point No.9 shall
constitute the boundary between the continental shelf
of Burma and the continental shelf of Thailand and, in
the event that Thailand establishes her exclusive
_Qconomic zone, this same line shall also constitute
the boundary between the exclusive economic zone of
Surma and the exclusive economic zone of Thailand.
4. The extension of the boundary in the direction
of and up to the maritime boundary trijunction point
between Burma, Thailand and India will be the subject
of a subsequent agreement.
1. The geographical co-ordinates of points Nos.1
to 6 specified in !article 1 are derived from the 1948
edition of British :admiralty Chart No.3052, re-published
in 1975, and those of Points Nos.'] to 9 from the
1975 edition of British Admiralty Chart No.830 published
on 3rd January 1975. The lines connecting the said
points are indicated on British Admiralty Chart No.830,
published on 3.rd January 1975, attached as an ,Annex to
this :_or )ement.
2. The actual location of these points at sea and
of the lines connecting them shall be determined by a
method to be mutually agreed upon by the hydrographic
experts authorized for this purpose by the two
Governments.
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Any dispute between the two Governments relating to the
interpretation or implementation of this _.grecmant shall be
settled peacefully by consultation or negotiation.
This Agreement shall be ratified in accorc'.ance ?ith the
constitutional requirements of each country. It shall enter
into force on the date of the exchange of the Instruments of
?atification which will take place at Ban;kok as soon
as possible.
IN ;7ITNESS :~T}L 2EOF the undersigned, being duly authorized
thereto by their respective Governments, have sined this
__gre ement .
DONE IN DUPLICATE at Rangoon, on the twenty-fifth day of
July, One thousand Nine hundred and Eighty, in the English
language.
2cR THE GO1 GMEVT CF THE FOR TFE GO1T-]RN_ei NT OF `TILE
UI's I:3T 3- JiLIC OF THE KINGDOM OF TRAIL NN?D
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( U Lay i,iaung ) . (Air Chief Mar shal Siddhi SavetsUa)
Minister for Foreign Affairs Minister for Foreign :-affairs
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