WHEREAS Article 6 (b) of Annex VII to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea provides that “[t]he parties to the dispute shall facilitate the work of the arbitral tribunal” and shall “enable it when necessary […] to visit the localities to which the case relates”;

CONSIDERING the terms of the Tribunal’s letter to the Parties dated February 11, 2013, which communicated the Tribunal’s decision to conduct a site visit and invited the Parties to confer and agree upon a joint itinerary for the site visit;

CONSIDERING the Parties’ exchanges of views and their agreement on the broad outlines of the itinerary and certain modalities of the site visit reached on May 3, 2013;

CONSIDERING the Parties’ divergent views on the details of the site visit itinerary expressed on June 30 and July 8, 2013;

CONSIDERING the terms of the Tribunal’s letter to the Parties dated July 11, 2013, which proposed details of the site visit itinerary for the Parties’ consideration;

CONSIDERING India’s view on the proposed itinerary expressed on July 26, 2013, and Bangladesh’s comments thereon on August 5, 2013;

CONSIDERING the Parties’ comments on a draft of this Order sent to the Parties on August 16, 2013;