Nonetheless, there have been claims that the Treaty is inequitable, favour-ing Australia at East Timor’s expense, and that it is the consequence of an unbalanced negotiating process.
In particular, the response of pressure groups
which have campaigned on behalf of East Timor securing a better deal in the
negotiations of Timor Sea resources to CMATS has been somewhat mixed, but
tending towards the negative, largely because of the deferral of maritime
boundary delimitation negotiations and continuing perceptions that East Timor
should have secured a significantly larger share of the seabed resources at
stake. On the positive side, Mr. Ian Melrose, the Perth-based businessman who
spent around A$2 million on an advertising campaign aimed, essentially, at
shaming the Australian government into affording East Timor a better deal
regarding the Timor Sea, pronounced himself happy with the Treaty. Speaking
on the day the Treaty was signed he said: “Everyone is happy. Nobody is a
loser out of this deal
Nonetheless, there have been claims that the Treaty is inequitable, favour-ing Australia at East Timor’s expense, and that it is the consequence of an unbalanced negotiating process.
In particular, the response of pressure groups
which have campaigned on behalf of East Timor securing a better deal in the
negotiations of Timor Sea resources to CMATS has been somewhat mixed, but
tending towards the negative, largely because of the deferral of maritime
boundary delimitation negotiations and continuing perceptions that East Timor
should have secured a significantly larger share of the seabed resources at
stake. On the positive side, Mr. Ian Melrose, the Perth-based businessman who
spent around A$2 million on an advertising campaign aimed, essentially, at
shaming the Australian government into affording East Timor a better deal
regarding the Timor Sea, pronounced himself happy with the Treaty. Speaking
on the day the Treaty was signed he said: “Everyone is happy. Nobody is a
loser out of this deal
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