Press release, 14 October 2014
The Seimas has ratified the Agreement between the Lithuanian and Swedish Governments on the Delimitation of the Exclusive Economic Zone and the Continental Shelf in the Baltic Sea. The Law received 92 votes in favour, with no votes against and two abstentions.
The Agreement was signed by the Lithuanian and Swedish Ministers of Foreign Affairs in Stockholm on 10 April 2014. It delineates about 15 km of the sea border between the two neighbouring countries, Lithuania and Sweden.
The Explanatory Note to the Agreement provides that the document will constitute a legal basis to ensure economic, environmental and national security interests as well as sovereign rights of a state in the exclusive economic zone and on the continental shelf and will implement the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
Rimas Rudaitis, Public Relations Unit, Communications Department, Office of the Seimas, tel. +370 5 239 6132, e-mail: [email protected]
