GERMANY: THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE LAW OF THE SEA HAS HEARD ARGUMENTS FROM SIGAPORE IN CASE DISPUTING LAND RECLAMATION OFF THE CITY STATE'S COAST

Record ID: 647027

  • Title: GERMANY: THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE LAW OF THE SEA HAS HEARD ARGUMENTS FROM SIGAPORE IN CASE DISPUTING LAND RECLAMATION OFF THE CITY STATE'S COAST
  • Date: 26th September 2003
  • Summary: (U4) HAMBURG, GERMANY (SEPTEMBER 26, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. SLV INTERIOR OF RECEPTION HALL INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE LAW OF THE SEA; CU CREST (2 SHOTS) 0.11 2. SLV/SV/CU ARRIVAL OF DELEGATIONS FOR HEARING; LAWYERS CONFERRING IN COURTROOM; INTERIORS COURTROOM (8 SHOTS) 1.32 3. SLV JUDGES SITTING DOWN (3 SHOTS) 1.45 4. CU/PAN INTERIORS COURTROOM DURING SESSION (2 SHOTS) 2.06 5. MCU/CU/SV REPRESENTATIVES FOR SINGAPORE TESTIFYING; MAP OF SINGAPORE ON SCREEN; INTERIORS COURTROOM (5 SHOTS) 3.21 6. CU LAWYER LEAFING THROUGH FILES/LISTENING (2 SHOTS) 3.39 7. LV OF COURTROOM 3.45 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 11th October 2003 13:00
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  • Location: HAMBURG, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA6Y2CAOGKFZ4Q4CMGVP7IRDG9S
  • Story Text: The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
    has heard arguments from Singapore in a case disputing land
    reclamation off the city state's coast.



    The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
    (ITLOS) convened on Friday (September 26) for a second day
    of hearings in a case between Singapore and its neighbour
    Malaysia about land reclamation in the Straits of Johor.

    The city-state's representatives took the floor to
    present the country's arguments.

    Malaysia claims that Singapore's action in engaging in
    land reclamation around Pulau Tekong and Tuas is causing
    serious and irreversible damage to the marine environment
    and serious prejudice to the rights of Malaysia. Malaysia
    maintains that the land reclamation activities are
    producing major changes to both the flow regime and
    sedimentation and are effecting coastal erosion.

    For decades, Singapore has engaged in aggressive land
    reclamation which has increased its land mass by almost 10
    percent from its original 586 square kilometers. And the
    island-nation aims to get even bigger yet. Predictions are
    that it will have grown to 820 square kilometers by 2010.

    According to the Request, Malaysia seeks to preserve
    its rights relating to the maintenance of the marine and
    coastal environment and the preservation of its rights of
    maritime access to its coastline, as guaranteed by Annex
    VII of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

    The court has set three days of hearings and a ruling
    is expected in mid-October.


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