From the pages of The Hindu, May 2, 1974: “A new hitch over the definition of the territorial sea limit between India and Sri Lanka in the Palk Straits is holding up the settlement of the ...

June 07 - Sri Lanka is successfully lobbying for the increase of the size of its Exclusive Economic Zone or the country’s territorial sea in cooperation with the Maldives avoiding any conflict ...

If Sri Lanka wins its claim, it would give the country control of an area 20 times as large as the country’s land area in addition to a sea area extending up to 350 nautical miles – a general claim ...

Colombo (AsiaNews) – Sri Lanka is carrying out intense lobbying at the UN to expand its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), working with the Maldives to avoid possible territorial disputes and ...