Four more Commonwealth countries make bid for additional areas of the seabed.

Four more commonwealth countries have successfully lodged claims for additional areas of seabed.
Guyana, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka and Tonga have all successfully made submissions to the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf with assistance from the Commonwealth Secretariat.
This brings the total number of countries helped by the Secretariat in making their submissions to twelve. The combined figure for the additional seabed that has been secured by these 12 submissions is two million square km – equivalent in size to the land area of Mexico.
These submissions give coastal and island states exclusive sovereign rights to explore and exploit all natural resources in the claimed areas.
External inputs for the submissions included the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK and Geometrix, Canada.
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