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Cambodia, Thailand bring $300B seabed dispute to UN

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Cambodia and Thailand are presenting a dispute over a 27,000 sq km seabed area in the Gulf of Thailand to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea's conciliation commission. This region is estimated to contain US$300 billion in oil and gas reserves. This marks only the second time this specific UN legal process has been invoked, with a previous instance involving East Timor and Australia taking nearly two years to resolve. AI

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Cambodia, Thailand bring $300B seabed dispute to UN

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Aidan Jones ·

    Cambodia, Thailand take US$300 billion seabed dispute to UN

    Months after deadly clashes that cost dozens of lives along their shared border, the foreign ministers of Cambodia and Thailand laid out opening arguments on Tuesday over a different kind of territory: 27,000 sq km (10,400 square miles) of seabed thought to hold a fortune in gas …

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