Treaty on Certain Maritime Arrangements in the Timor Sea

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Boundaries in the Timor Sea

The Treaty on Certain Maritime Arrangements in the Timor Sea (contract on certain maritime agreements in the Timor Sea , short "CMATS-Treaty") or named after the sea area " Sunrise Arrangement " (Sunrise Agreement) regulated the usage and property rights of the sea area between East Timor and Australia .

During the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, an oil field was discovered in the Timor Sea between Timor and Australia. On December 11, 1989, the Timor Gap Treaty (literally " Timor Gap Treaty ", based on the "gap" between the exclusive economic zones of the three states) was concluded between the governments of Indonesia and Australia on the division of rights of use; it came into force on February 9, 1991. The relationship between East Timor and Australia was tense after East Timor's independence in 2002 due to the debates over the sea border between the two countries. Canberra claimed the oil and gas fields in the Timor Trench, which East Timor considers to be within its maritime borders. While East Timor, according to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea , demanded the definition of the border in the middle between the countries, Canberra insisted on an orientation according to the course of the edge of the Australian continental plate.

It was not until May 2004 that the Australian government reaffirmed the validity of the old contract in this form, which moved the sea border, and thus also the raw materials, in favor of Australia. East Timor accused Australia of withholding a million US dollars in license income every day by drawing the border from East Timor . On January 12, 2006, the two countries finally agreed in the Treaty on Certain Maritime Arrangements in the Timor Sea or Sunrise Agreement to share the profits from the oil and gas reserves in the Greater Sun Rise Area 50:50. These deposits are among the richest in the Asia-Pacific region. A 50-year moratorium on the maritime border was agreed without East Timor waiving its claims. Both countries ratified the agreement in 2007.

In January 2017, the governments of Australia and East Timor announced that the CMATS should be dissolved. On March 6, 2018, a new border treaty was signed between the two states.

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  1. ^ ANTS - Agreements, Treaties and negiotiated settlements project: TIMOR GAP TREATY between Australia and the Republic of Indonesia on the Zone of cooperation in an area between the Indonesian Province of East Timor and Northern Australia
  2. ↑ Jesuit Social Justice Center: Closing the Timor Gap Fairly and in a Timely Manner ( Memento of the original of April 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. September 3, 2004 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uniya.org
  3. ↑ La'o Hamutuk Bulletin Vol. 7, No. April 1, 2006 - The CMATS Treaty
  4. ↑ Tom Clarke: Australia's unscrupulous pursuit of East Timor's oil needs to stop. In: The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Syndication , January 11, 2017, accessed January 20, 2017.