THE bicameral conference committee approved on Wednesday the final version of the maritime zones bill, taking it closer to being sent to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for approval.
'The Maritime Zones Law is long overdue. We urgently need a law delineating our maritime domains to assert the extent of our sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction under Unclos ,' said Negros Occidental 3rd District Rep. Jose Francisco 'Kiko' Benitez, one of the authors of the bill.
Also, he said that such maritime zones and other marine areas 'will be covered by future submissions to the United Nations on the limits of our continental shelf, including our claim for the region of West Palawan as part of our extended continental shelf, which has been submitted to the UN just this June.
Panel Okays Maritime Zones Bill
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