Indonesia, Singapore Reach Territorial Agreement

Indonesia and Singapore finalized a treaty on the delimitation of territorial seas in the eastern part of the Singapore Strait. The agreement was signed by Foreign Affairs Minister Marty Natalegawa and his Singaporean counterpart K. Shanmugam on August 2 in Singapore. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, on an official three-day visit to the city-state, oversaw the signing of the agreement together with Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore's prime minister.

"The treaty was on the border of the eastern part of the Strait of Singapore segment I, because the border on the western part had been agreed upon," Marty said. He added that the agreement on the western part had been signed in 2009.