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Dear Colleagues,
A couple of months I e-mailed you all about our
major international conference called
Analysing International Border Disputes which will
be held in London on 15th & 16th May (plus the
pre-conference workshop on The Politics &
Practicalities of Resolving Border Disputes on
14th May)
The bookings for the conference are going well and
we have delegates from as far afield as Canada,
Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco and the
US as well as from around Europe. Besides
governments, lawyers, consultants and academics
we also have delegates from such oil companies
as BG, Conoco, Onarep (Morocco), Shell and
TotalFinaElf.
If you would like an Adobe Acrobat PDF version
of the whole programmes by e-mail, or would like
us to mail you a brochure, please send us your
full details (including phone and fax)
Naturally we would be grateful if you could
please forward this e-mail on to any of your
colleagues and/or contacts who you think
might also be interested.
We think that it is a very strong programmes
and we are therefore expecting a lot of interest
We therefore look forward to seeing as many of
you as possible in London in May
Best wishes
Charles Gurdon
Menas Associates
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PRE-CONFERENCE INTER-ACTIVE WORKSHOP
THE POLITICS & PRACTICALITIES OF RESOLVING BORDER DISPUTES
Organised by Menas Associates & GRC, SOAS, University of London
MONDAY 14TH MAY 2001
POLITICS & BORDER DISPUTES
Latin America & Caribbean - Dr George Philip (LSE)
West Africa - Patrick Smith (Editor, Africa Confidential)
The FSU & Caspian - Tamara Makerenko, (Menas Associates)
Middle East & North Africa - Dr Noel Brehony (Menas Asociates)
LUNCH
THE PRACTICALITIES OF BORDER DISPUTES
Introduction - Richard Schofield (GRC, SOAS)
Case Study : Libya - George Joffe (Menas Associates)
The legal principals of land & maritime border disputes - Robert Volterra
(Freshfields)
Technical issues of maritime delimitation - Chris Carleton (Head of Law of
the Sea Division, UK Hydrographic Office).
Panel Session
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ANALYSING INTERNATIONAL BORDER DISPUTES
Two day International Conference,
Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th May 2001
One Whitehall Place, London
DAY ONE - TUESDAY 15TH MAY
09:00 Welcome from GBN
09:05 Chairman's Introduction -
John McHugo, Trowers & Hamlins
09:10 Introduction to the principles of
sovereignty over land
John McHugo
Partner
Trowers & Hamlins
09:30 International land boundary disputes:
A global overview
Clive Schofield
Deputy Director
International Boundaries Research Unit
10:00 International maritime boundary disputes:
Impact upon offshore oil and gas development
Dr Robert Smith
US State Dept
Office of Ocean Affairs
10:30 Tea, coffee and discussion
TRANS BOUNDARY ISSUES
11:00 Cross border energy flows, from the
Energy Charter Treaty perspective
Adnan Amkhan
Head of Legal Affairs
Energy Charter Secretariat
11:20 Trans-border Pipelines
Robert Volterra
Head of Public International Law Group
Freshfields
11:50 Avoiding disputes : Commercial and practical
issues in cross-border projects
Nick Hills
International Energy Project Consultant,
Partner, Beard-Hills
12:10 Technical aspects of maritime delimitation
Chris Carleton
Head, Law of the Sea Division
UK Hydrographic Office
12:40 Using Satellite data in international
boundary delimitation
Dr Robin Cleverly
Exploration Applications Manager
NPA Group
13:00 Lunch
THE MIDDLE EAST
14:00 Qatar/Bahrain: Sovereignty, land and
maritime boundary disputes in the ICJ
Prof. Maurice Mendelson QC
14:30 Maritime delimitation in the Northern Gulf
Richard Schofield
GRC, SOAS
15:00 Tea, coffee and discussion
THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
15:30 Disputes in the Caspian Sea: Continuing
controversy and changing positions
Dr Sergei Vinogradov
Senior Research Fellow
University of Dundee
16:00 Case Study of Azerbaijan: Oil Export Routes
Israfil Mamedov
SOCAR
16:30 The Norwegian/Russian border dispute
Jay Wagner
Senior Consultant: Environmental Affairs
Menas Associates Ltd
17:00 Petroleum, Development and the Fourth
World: The price of conflict or cooperation
Dr Rudolph Ryser
Chair
Center for World Indigenous Studies
17:45 Chairman's summation
18:00 Close of day one.
DAY TWO: WEDNESDAY 16th May
Chairman's introduction
Dr Charles Gurdon,
Menas Associates
WEST AFRICA
09:00 Maritime boundary disputes in the
Gulf of Guinea
Rodman Bundy
Partner
Frere Cholmeley, Paris
09:30 Namibia/Angola and Namibia/South Africa
maritime boundary disputes
Leon Edward Moller
Petroleum Commissioner
Ministry of Mines and Energy, Namibia
10:00 Analysing the Angola/Congo dispute
Alan Perry
Partner, Litigation Dept
DJ Freeman
10:30 Tea, coffee and discussion
11:00 Cameroon/Nigeria land and maritime
boundary disputes
Prof. Malcolm Shaw
Leicester University
11:30 Nigeria/Cameroon: Genesis of a dispute
Tim Daniel
Head of Public International Law
DJ Freeman
12:00 Nigeria, tribal boundary disputes and E&P
Dahiru Bobbo
Director-General
Nigerian National Boundaries Commission
12:30 Lunch
LATIN AMERICA
13:30 Native land conflicts in Latin America
Susan Reider
Senior Partner
The Terra Group, USA
14:00 Venezuelan - Colombian border dispute
in the Gulf of Venezuela
Dr Roy Bradshaw
Nottingham University
14:30 Trinidad & Tobago/Venezuela
15:00 Venezuela and its border disputes
Representative of the Venezuelan Government
15:30 Tea, coffee and discussion
16:00 Border disputes on the NE Shoulder
of South America
Peggy Hoyle
LeBoeuf, Lamb, Green & MacRae, USA
16:30 Cross Border projects in South America
Peter Cassidy
Partner
Masons
17:00 Conference summation
George Joffe
17:25 Conference Chairman
17:40 Close of conference.
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