Bangladesh contends that “[t]here is no legal basis for an a priori
assumption that St. Martin’s Island should be ignored in the drawing of
Myanmar’s equidistance line”. Bangladesh notes that St. Martin’s island “is a
significant coastal feature that indisputably generates entitlement in the
continental shelf and EEZ”. Bangladesh therefore concludes that “there are
thus no grounds, other than Myanmar’s self-interest, for excluding it in the
plotting of a provisional equidistance line, where, in the first instance, all
coastal features are included”.