Guyana on Tuesday made a full submission of a claim to an extended continental shelf to the United Nations.
Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, in a release yesterday, said that Guyana’s submission contained all the relevant data pursuant to Article 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Guyana commissioned a desk top study in 2002 to determine from data available both here and overseas, whether the country met the basic criteria to make a claim to an extended continental shelf, which according to the provisions of Convention, can be up to a limit of 150 nautical miles from the 200 nautical mile outer limit of the exclusive economic zone of coastal States.
The continental shelf is an undersea extension of a continent which can stretch for many miles out to sea in some cases. According to Article 76 of the United Nations Con-vention on the
