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Gabon rejects Angola’s maritime border submission


Issue 281 - 11 Jul 2014 | 2 minute read

Gabon has written to United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon rejecting part of Angola’s December 2013 submission to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS). The northern maritime limit separating Angola’s territorial waters to the north of Cabinda from Republic of Congo’s waters, instead of running straight from the coastline, turns off abruptly to the north and intersects first Congo’s continental shelf area, then Gabon’s.

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