TREATIES AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL ACTS SERIES 17-118.1

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BOUNDARIES AND BOUNDARY WATERS

Maritime

Agreement Between the 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

and CUBA on

Provisional Application of the

Treaty of January 18, 2017

Effected by Exchange of Notes at

Washington and Havana

January 18, 2017
 NOTE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE

 Pursuant to Public Law 89—497, approved July 8, 1966

(80 Stat. 271; 1 U.S.C. 113)—

“. . .the Treaties and Other International Acts Series issued

under the authority of the Secretary of State shall be competent

evidence . . . of the treaties, international agreements other than

treaties, and proclamations by the President of such treaties and

international agreements other than treaties, as the case may be, 

therein contained, in all the courts of law and equity and of maritime

jurisdiction, and in all the tribunals and public offices of the

United States, and of the several States, without any further proof

or authentication thereof.”
 CUBA

 Boundaries and Boundary Waters: 

 Maritime

 Agreement on provisional application of the

 Treaty of January 18, 2017.

 Effected by exchange of notes at Washington and Havana

 January 18, 2017;

 Entered into force January 18, 2017;

 Effective from January 18, 2017.
No. 18/08 

The Department of State presents its compliments to the Ministry of Foreign 

Affairs of the Republic of Cuba and refers to the Treaty between the United States 

of America and the Republic of Cuba on the Delimitation of the Continental Shelf 

in the Eastern Gulf ofMexico beyond 200 Nautical Miles, signed on 

January 18, 2017 (the Treaty). On behalf ofthe United States of America, the 

Department proposes that the terms of the Treaty be applied on a provisional basis 

for a three-year period, beginning on January 18, 2017, and thereafter provisionally 

applied for successive three-year periods unless, at least two months prior to the 

end of a given period, a written notice to terminate provisional application at the 

end of that period is given by one Party to the other Party or the Parties have 

agreed on a different period of application on a provisional basis. In any event, the 

period of provisional application shall terminate when the Treaty enters into force. 

Ifthis proposal is acceptable to the Republic of Cuba, the Department of 

State proposes that this note and the affirmative reply from the Ministry of Foreign 

DIPLOMATIC NOTE 
Affairs ofthe Republic of Cuba shall constitute an Agreement between the United 

States and the Republic of Cuba, which shall enter into force on the date ofthe 

reply. 

The Department avails itself ofthis opportunity to renew to the Ministry of 

Foreign Affairs ofthe Republic of Cuba the assurances of its highest consideration. 

Department of State, 

Washington, January 18, 2017. 
LS No. 0-2017-004839 U.S. Department of State Spanish/English Office of Language Services GPG/ALK Translating Division 

TRANSLATION 

Republic of Cuba 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs 

Note Verbale No. 136 

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs presents its compliments to the Department of 

State of the United States of America and has the honor to refer to Department note No. 

18/08 ofJanuary 18, 2017, regarding the Treaty Between the United States of America 

and the Republic of Cuba on the Delimitation of the Continental Shelf in the Eastern Gulf 

of Mexico beyond 200 Nautical Miles, signed on January 18, 2017 (the Treaty), which 

reads as follows: 

[The Spanish translation of Department Note No. 18/08 agrees in all respects with 

the original English text.] 

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on behalf ofthe Republic of Cuba, is pleased to 

inform the Department of State of the United States that the proposal set forth in Note 

No. 18/08 of January 18, 2017 is acceptable to the Republic of Cuba, and to confirm that 

this note and the note from the Department of State shall constitute an agreement between 

the Republic of Cuba and the United States of America, which shall enter into force on 

the date of this note. 

[Complimentary close] 

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Havana, January 18, 201 7 

United States Department of State. 
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El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores saluda atentamente al 

Honorable Departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos de America y tiene 

el placer de hacer referencia a la Nota No.18/08, de fecha 18 de enero del 2017 

de ese Departamento, relativa al Tratado entre la Republica de Cuba y los 

Estados Unidos de America sobre la Delimitaci6n de la Plataforma Continental 

en el Poligono Oriental del Golfo de Mexico mas alla de las 200 Millas 

Nauticas, firmado el 18 de enero del 2017 (el Tratado), en la cual se establece 

lo siguiente: 

"El Departamento de Estado saluda atentamente al Ministerio de 

Re/aciones Exteriores de la Rep(Jbfica de Cuba y hace referencia al 

Tratado entre los Estados Unidos de America y la Republica de 

Cuba sobre la Delimitaci6n de la Plataforma Continental en el 

Poligono Oriental de/ Golfo de Mexico mas al/a de las 200 Mil/as 

Nauticas, firmado el 18 de enero el 2017 (el Tratado). El 

Departamento de Estado, en nombre de los Estados Unidos de 

America, propane que los terminos de/ Tratado se apliquen de 

manera provisional durante un periodo de tres anos, a partir def 18 

de enero de 2017, y que posteriormente se sigan aplicando de 

manera provisional durante periodos sucesivos de tres anos a 

menos que, por lo menos dos meses antes de que concluya un 

perlodo determinado, una de las Partes notifique por escrito a la 

otra su decision de terminar la aplicaci6n provisional al final de ese 

periodo o que ambas Partes acuerden un periodo de aplicaci6n 

provisional diferente. En cualquier caso, el periodo de aplicaci6n 

provisional se dara por terminado cuando el Tratado entre en 

vigor." 

Al Departamento de Estado 

de los Estados Unidos de America 
El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, en nombre de la Republica 

de Cuba, tiene el placer de informar al Departamento de Estado de los Estados 

Unidos que acepta la propuesta contenida en la Nota No. 18/08, de fecha 18 de 

enero del 2017, y confirma que la presente nota y la nota del Departamento de 

Estado constituiran un Acuerdo entre la Republica de Cuba y los Estados 

Unidos de America, que entrara en vigor en la fecha de la presente Neta. 

El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores aprovecha la ocasi6n para 

reiterar al Honorable Departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos de 

America, el testimonio de su alta consideraci6-;;u_, 

La Habana, 18 de enero de 2017 

"Ano 59 de la Revoluci6n"