If the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea recognized, in geographical and geological terms, the continuity of the continental shelf with the land even when it extends beyond the 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ), then the rights to the deep sea-bed and its resources of coastal States would be acknowledged. In this paper, I will summarize the provisions of treaties on the continental shelf, the conditions of the continental shelf and its surveys and the prospects on deep sea-bed resources in this country.

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