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On July 7, 2014, the Arbitral Tribunal established under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (the Tribunal) rendered its award in the case of Bay of Bengal Maritime Boundary Arbitration Between Bangladesh and India, regarding the delimitation of the maritime boundary between the two states. According to the press release, the Tribunal, upon accepting jurisdiction, unanimously “identif[ied] the location of the land boundary terminus between Bangladesh and India and in determining the course of the maritime boundary in the territorial sea.” By a vote of four to one, the Tribunal agreed upon “the course of the maritime boundary line between Bangladesh and India in the exclusive economic zone and the continental shelf within and beyond 200 nautical miles.”