CHAPTER I - PROCEDURAL HISTORY 

A. INITIATION OF THIS ARBITRATION 

1. By a Notification and Statement of Claim dated 8 October 2009, the People’s Republic of Bangladesh initiated arbitral proceedings against the Republic of India, pursuant to article 287 of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (the “Convention”) and in accordance with Annex VII to the Convention. Bangladesh and India (the “Parties”) ratified the Convention on 27 July 2001 and 26 June 1995, respectively. 

2. In its Notification and Statement of Claim, Bangladesh sought the following relief: 

Bangladesh requests the Tribunal to delimit, in accordance with the principles and rules set forth in UNCLOS, the maritime boundary between Bangladesh and India in the Bay of Bengal, in the territorial sea, the EEZ, and the continental shelf, including the portion of the continental shelf pertaining to Bangladesh that lies more than 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which its territorial sea is measured.1