HC Deb 11 January 2001 vol 360 c600W
Mr. Chaytor

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will recognise the Chilean Government's claim to exercise control of its 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone. [144723]

Mr. Hain

As a coastal state, Chile has the rights, jurisdiction and duties in their exclusive economic zone that were provided for in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.