ANALYSIS ON INDIA’S EEZ : IT’S ESTABLISHMENT,NEGOTIATION AND DELIMITATION WITH NEIGHBOURING STATES

AUTHOR – NIKTHI, STUDENT AT THE TAMILNADU DR. AMBEDKAR LAW UNIVERSITY

BEST CITATION – NIKTHI, ANALYSIS ON INDIA’S EEZ : IT’S ESTABLISHMENT,NEGOTIATION AND DELIMITATION WITH NEIGHBOURING STATES, INDIAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL REVIEW (IJLR), 4 (4) OF 2024, PG. 556-566, APIS – 3920 – 0001 & ISSN – 2583-2344.

ABSTRACT:

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the sea (UNCLOS) defines an Exclusive Economic Zone as extended 200 nautical miles from the shore, within which The coastal state has the right and responsibility to discover and use living and non-living resources, as well as to safeguard and manage them. India’s fundamental maritime interest is safeguarding its exclusive economic zone. The Exclusive Economic Zone of India is about 2.37 million square kilometers guarded by the Indian Coast Guard ships. The seas and oceans are the principal routes of worldwide trade and communication because they contain various living and nonliving natural resources such as fish, oil, gas, and other minerals. Given the increasing reliance and importance of marine resources on states, specific laws regulating state jurisdiction, sovereignty, rights and privileges, and so on must be devised. Marine delimitation is a notion in territorial sovereignty that can be used to resolve international marine territorial disputes. We are going to investigate about how India has established EEZ ,how to negotiate with the Neighboring nations and their delimitations that will guide them in the right path. We are going to analyze importance of the exclusive economic zone in India which was established in January 1977. From article 55 to article 75 talks about exclusive economic zone their establishment, delimitations, etc…. under UNCLOS.

KEYWORDS: Exclusive economic zone, International law, UNCLOS, Nautical miles