Even before Bangladesh's submission on the outer limits of its continental shelf beyond 200 miles from its baseline reaches the head of the queue awaiting the attention of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, the maritime boundary delimitations with Myanmar (2012) and India (2014) have produced a unique situation, in which Bangladesh's seabed boundaries have been fully delimited with both neighbours, creating a single continuous outer limit landward of the one submitted to the Commission. This may mean that there is no need to await the Commission's reaction to Bangladesh's submission, as there is nothing to stop Bangladesh simply beginning to exploit areas on its side of the two boundaries. This paper examines whether the position is really that simple, and whether any other state might have grounds for objecting if Bangladesh does so, together with deficits of co-operation that may confound early moves to exploitation.

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孟加拉北部湾的海底边界：大陆架界限委员会在为资源开发铺平道路中的作用不明确

甚至在孟加拉国关于其基线 200 英里以外的大陆架外部界限的划界案到达等待大陆架界限委员会注意的队列的首位之前，与缅甸（2012 年）和印度的海洋边界划定（ 2014）产生了一种独特的情况，其中孟加拉国的海底边界已与两个邻国完全划定，在提交给委员会的边界的陆地上形成了一个连续的外部边界。这可能意味着没有必要等待委员会对孟加拉国的划界案作出反应，因为没有什么可以阻止孟加拉国只是开始在其两个边界一侧开发区域。这篇论文考察了位置是否真的那么简单，