Six Pacific Island Countries to Claim Ocean Space;
13/5/08
Six countries in the region are working on their submissions to the United Nations (UN) to claim extra ocean space. According to Fijilive, the six island nations ‘are beginning to feel the pressure to complete their submissions to the United Nations to claim extra ocean space, with only one year remaining to the May 2009 deadline, says the Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC)’. ‘The Maritime Boundaries Project Officer with SOPAC, Emily Artack said Fiji along with Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, Tonga and Papua New Guinea have a credible claim to more than 1.5 million square kilometres of additional space beyond their current 200 mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)’.
See: http://solomontimes.com/news.aspx?nwID=1767
Tags: Environment, Pacific, Trade