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Officials seek rights to extend offshore border as piracy surges
Police officers lead suspected Somali pirates into a Mombasa court. Kenya has expressed a desire to manage piracy, but is hampered in its efforts to do so until the UN grants the country a green light to access more distance as per its submission.
Posted Wednesday, July 1 2009 at 00:00
Sea law experts say the UN Commission on the Limit of Continental Shelf (UNCLOS) — the arbiter in the fresh scramble for sea wealth — must receive all applications from neighbouring states to demarcate the new borders.
The looming delay in territorial expansion marks a big blow to Kenya’s hopes that it would soon be able to extend its search for seabed wealth beyond the current borders.
In asking for more time, Tanzania said lack of financial resources and technical expertise had prevented it from making a timely and comprehensive report forcing it to submit “an indicative preliminary document” to beat the deadline.
Tanzania stated that it had only managed to honour half of the six-point specifications that the UN commission’s Division of the Ocean Affairs and Law of the Sea Office (DOALOS) requires applicants to meet.
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