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This might be of your interest.
Sincerely,
Andi
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The Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission has agreed on the demarcation of
the maritime border between the two west African countries, a United
Nations source said on Saturday.
During a meeting in Abuja on Friday, the commission heard conclusions
from lawyers and cartographers before finally agreeing to keep the
boundary line from the 1994 British Marine map.
Agreeing on the boundary, which runs along the Bakassi peninsula and
splits the large oil fields there in two, was essential to resolving
the long-standing border dispute between the two countries.
"Now, the demarcation of the rest of the land boundary needs to be
expedited and bilateral cooperation engaged in respect of the oil
fields straddling the maritime boundary," the UN said in a statement
following the mixed commission meeting.
The commission was established by the UN on November 15, 2002, at the
request of President Paul Biya of Cameroon and his Nigerian
counterpart Olusegun Obasanjo to follow up on the implementation of an
International Court of Justice decision on the two nations' border
dispute.
The conflict has dragged on for 13 years between Abuja and Yaounde
over ownership of the territory, a 1,000-square-kilometre
(400-square-mile) patch of Atlantic coastal swamp.
Nigeria last August formally handed over the oil-rich Bakassi
Peninsula to Cameroon in compliance with the ICJ ruling and
UN-brokered deadline.
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I Made Andi Arsana
Geodesy & Geomatics, Gadjah Mada University, INDONESIA
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