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The Department of Foreign Affairs on Saturday said the Philippines has filed before the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf the country’s entitlement to an extended continental shelf in the West Palawan Region in the West Philippine Sea .
The Foreign Affairs Department said a coastal state like the Philippines is “entitled to establish the outer limits of its continental shelf comprising the seabed and subsoil of the submarine areas extending beyond 200 nautical miles but not to exceed 350 NM from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured.”The National Mapping and Resource Information Agency led the technical working group that worked on the submission for over a decade and a half.
“Incidents in the waters tend to overshadow the importance of what lies beneath,” DFA Assistant Secretary for Maritime and Ocean Affairs Marshall Louis Alferez said. “The seabed and the subsoil extending from our archipelago up to the maximum extent allowed by UNCLOS hold significant potential resources that will benefit our nation and our people for generations to come,” he added.
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