Suriname’s request to expand its maritime territory, which recently won approval, is not worrying, according to Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkette, who noted that they are required to sit down with Guyana and conclude an agreement delimiting the maritime boundary.
Rodrigues-Birkette said the recommendations made by the United Nations Com-mission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) allow Suriname to extend the breadth (or outer limit) of its national jurisdiction, not its (inner) limits in relation to other states such as Guyana.
Surinamese officials reported last week that its territory has been extended by 350 sea miles on top of the exclusive 200-mile zone every country bordering the sea is
