The UNO acknowledged enclave in the Okhotsk Sea a part of Russian continental shelf

The UNO’s Sub-Committee has agreed with the Russian arguments and acknowledged the enclave with an area of 52 thousand square km in the middle of the Okhotsk Sea a part of the Russian continental shelf, the Ministry of Natural Resources reports.

In the near future, the UNO’s Sub-Committee will prepare the corresponding recommendations for the UNO’s Committee on the borders of the continental shelf. These recommendations will be presented at the regular, the 33th session of the UNO’s Committee, which will take place in February-March of 2014. When these recommendations are approved by the plenary assembly of the UNO’s Committee, the process of legal attribution of the enclave to the Russian continental shelf will be able to be considered fully completed, the report says.