Myanmar rejects the arguments advanced by Bangladesh that the
equidistance line fails to take account of the relevant circumstances in the
case, notably the cut-off effect it produces and the concavity of Bangladesh’s
coast, and states that “[n]one of the reasons invoked by Bangladesh to set
aside the usual method of drawing the maritime boundary between States has
any basis in modern international law of the sea, the first step of which is to
identify the provisional equidistance line”.