Yesterday, Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said the Republic had filed a declaration under an international treaty to ensure that no signatory - including Singapore and its neighbours - unilaterally begins third-party arbitration or adjudication on maritime boundary disputes involving the Republic.
Singapore filed the declaration under Article 298(1)(a) of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos) on Wednesday. In case a settlement could not be achieved through negotiations, the parties would mutually agree on the forum where they would seek to resolve their dispute and the issues that were to be decided, a spokesman for MFA said.
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