259. The Tribunal will first select the base points to be used for constructing
the provisional equidistance line.
260. As noted in paragraph 242, Bangladesh did not identify any base
points for the construction of a provisional equidistance line.
261. The Tribunal notes Bangladesh’s contentions that Myanmar does not
show the effect on its proposed delimitation line of base point β2, located on
the southern tip of Mandabaria Island, near the land boundary between
Bangladesh and India, because that point has none, and that base point β2
never actually comes into play in Myanmar’s proposed delimitation.