[TimorLesteStudies] New book: "New Frontiers: Timor-Leste’s Historic Conciliation on Maritime Boundaries in the Timor Sea" (RDTL Maritime Boundary Office, 2018)

[Michael Leach]

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From: Fiona Macrae <f.macrae at gfm.tl>


Timor-Leste’s Maritime Boundary Office has launched New Frontiers: Timor-Leste’s Historic Conciliation on Maritime Boundaries in the Timor Sea – a publication that documents the first-ever compulsory conciliation process under the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea.



This publication is the authoritative record of the conciliation process; an 18 month journey of negotiations that led to the Maritime Boundary Treaty being signed by Timor-Leste and Australia at the United Nations Headquarters in New York in March this year. The 100 page publication outlines the history of the maritime dispute between Timor-Leste and Australia, background to the Timor-Leste Government’s decision to initiate compulsory conciliation, the process itself, and the implications of its success.



New Frontiers will be a useful tool for people from around the world who have followed Timor-Leste’s struggle, and will be preserved in history as the official record of the process that bought Timor-Leste’s struggle for permanent maritime boundaries in the Timor Sea to a conclusion.



The book was launched in Dili by the Chief Negotiator Xanana Gusmão on Thursday 30  August – the anniversary of the referendum that delivered Timor-Leste its independence in 1999. New Frontiers is available on the MBO website:



http://www.gfm.tl/media/publications/<http://www.gfm.tl/media/publications/>



Please read and share with your friends and colleagues.



Fiona Macrae

Senior Information and Communications Adviser

Maritime Boundary Office

t +670 7742 5545

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Conselho para a Delimitação Definitiva das Fronteiras Marítimas / Council for the Final Delimitation of Maritime Boundaries
Gabinete das Fronteiras Marítimas / Maritime Boundary Office
1° Andar, Ala Ocidental do Edifício / 1st Floor, West Wing Building
Palácio do Governo / Government Palace
Avenida Marginal
Dili, Timor-Leste


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