Practice question
Two adjacent States negotiate a temporary joint resource arrangement in their overlapping EEZ claims. They expressly reserve the final boundary. Is such an approach inconsistent with UNCLOS merely because no final delimitation exists?
- Yes, every interim arrangement is forbidden
- Yes, cooperation concedes all sovereignty
- Yes, only war can settle overlap
- Yes, a boundary must be imposed by one side
- No, practical provisional arrangements are contemplated without prejudice to final delimitation
Legal references
- UNCLOS Article 74(3): https://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/unclos_e.pdf
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