Bangladesh is of the view that a provisional equidistance line that
includes St. Martin’s “does cut across somebody’s coastal front, and does
cause a significant cut-off effect – but the effect is not on Myanmar”. It is for
Bangladesh, not Myanmar, that the provisional equidistance line needs to be
adjusted so as to achieve the equitable solution required by the Convention.
308. Bangladesh explains that the pertinent question is not whether a
particular feature affects the provisional equidistance line but whether it
distorts the line and concludes by stating that “St Martin’s does not distort the
line”.