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Dispute concerning delimitation of the maritime boundary between Mauritius and Maldives in the Indian Ocean, Mauritius v Maldives, Preliminary objections, ITLOS Case No 28, ICGJ 560 (ITLOS 2021), 28th January 2021, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea [ITLOS]

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Whether an additional state was an indispensable third party to a dispute and, if so, whether the Special Chamber had jurisdiction over the alleged dispute.

Whether the Special Chamber had jurisdiction to determine the disputed issue of sovereignty over an archipelago and what the legal status of the archipelago was.

Application and interpretation of the obligations referred to in Articles 74 and 83 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (‘UNCLOS’).

Whether there was a dispute concerning the delimitation of the maritime boundary between two states.

Whether the claims of a party constituted an abuse of process, using the UNCLOS’s mandatory dispute settlement procedures to obtain a ruling on a territorial dispute with a third state, and should therefore be rejected as inadmissible.

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