East Timor: Australia presents legislative package for maritime border treaty

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East Timor: Australia presents legislative package for maritime border treaty

8:47 CAT | 28 Nov 2018

File photo: Thomas Peter / Pool

Australia’s government said on Wednesday it has presented a first legislative package to the parliament of Canberra regarding a landmark agreement over the Australian and East Timor maritime border that could end years of dispute.

Australia’s minister for foreign affairs, Marise Payne, and the minister for resources and northern Australia, Matthew Canavan, revealed the bill had been introduced to parliament in a joint statement

“We made history together on 6 March this year when, through a world-first conciliation process under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, we signed a treaty establishing permanent maritime boundaries,” minister Payne said.

“The bill tabled in Parliament today signifies our commitment to ratifying the new treaty, and to the positive chapter it opens in our bilateral partnership.”

“This bill establishes the Greater Sunrise Special Regime as an area of joint Australian and Timor-Leste jurisdiction and alters offshore petroleum permits and licences to reflect the new maritime boundary,” Senator Canavan said.

Source: Lusa