UNB, Dhaka

Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni yesterday said Bangladesh wants a peaceful resolution of the current problems over demarcation of maritime boundary protecting country’s sovereignty and territorial waters at any cost.
Addressing a seminar on Maritime Security of Bangladesh at BIIS, she said Bangladesh’s claims over Territorial Waters and Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) are based on United Nations Conventions on Laws of the Sea (UNCLOS) 1982 and substantiated in many cases of different arbitration courts and the International Court of Justice. [Read more]