UN General Assembly
2019

I am also pleased to note that as an integral part of this priority we submitted to the Secretary-General our national maritime-boundaries delimitation charts in April. In addition, we took positive steps in March 2017 to secure an extended continental shelf in the Ontong Java Plateau area, in a first-ever trilateral joint submission submitted together with our Pacific neighbours, the Federated States of Micronesia and Solomon Islands. A highly technical and sophisticated effort that spanned over a decade culminated in recommendations published by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.