5.4 Rights and Duties of Coastal States vis-a-vis the Landlocked and

GDS in the EEZ The participation regime (UNCLOS's Article-69-type craft): the landlocked states (and the geographically disadvantaged states — the GDS: the short-coastline-and-shelf-poor states) entitled to participate in the surplus of the living resources of the neighbouring coastal states' EEZs (the subregion's coastal states); the terms by agreement (the bilateral-and-regional arrangements — the equitable criteria: the landlocked's needs, the communities' dependence, the avoidance of dislocation); the landlocked's priority among the surplus-seekers (the landlocked before the distant-water states); the duty's architecture: the coastal state's duty to share the surplus vs. the discretion's width (the surplus's definition the coastal state's own determination — the practice's thinness honestly noted); Nepal's stake: the participation's right on paper, the practice's absence (the distant realities) — the landlocked's honest audit.