Further to item circulated by Charles Gurdon as re-enclosed below,
please see UN Equatorial Guinea/Gabon Mediation of 6 July at:
www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/sgsm9407.doc.htm
<http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/sgsm9407.doc.htm> & 7 July at:
www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=42050
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=42050&SelectRegion=West_Africa&
SelectCountry=EQUATORIAL_GUINEA-GABON>
&SelectRegion=West_Africa&SelectCountry=EQUATORIAL_GUINEA-GABON; 8 July at:
http://eri24.com/news6048.htm <http://eri24.com/news6048.htm> (via:
http://eri24.com/bottom.htm <http://eri24.com/bottom.htm> )
23 January at: www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=39104
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=39104&SelectRegion=West_Africa&
SelectCountry=EQUATORIAL_GUINEA-GABON>
&SelectRegion=West_Africa&SelectCountry=EQUATORIAL_GUINEA-GABON
UN Cameroon/Nigeria Mixed Commission charged with demarcation of the
boundary delimited by the 2002 ICJ Judgment is at:
www.un.org/Depts/dpa/prev_dip/africa/office_for_srsg/cnmc/preleas/comlist.ht
m
<http://www.un.org/Depts/dpa/prev_dip/africa/office_for_srsg/cnmc/preleas/co
mlist.htm> and its 11th Meeting will be held on 18-19 August 2004.
With respect to pending demarcation of the boundary delimited by the
2002 UN EEBC Decision ( www.pca-cpa.org/ENGLISH/RPC/
<http://www.pca-cpa.org/ENGLISH/RPC/> ), see UNSG Kofi A. Annan Urges
Resolution of Eritrea/Ethiopia Border Dispute of 5 July at:
www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=41993
<http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=41993&SelectRegion=Horn_of_Afri
ca&SelectCountry=ERITREA-ETHIOPIA>
&SelectRegion=Horn_of_Africa&SelectCountry=ERITREA-ETHIOPIA,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3864027.stm
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3864027.stm> ; 6 July at:
www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=11248
<http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=11248&Cr=africa&Cr1=darfur>
&Cr=africa&Cr1=darfur & www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/sgsm9406.doc.htm
<http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/sgsm9406.doc.htm> ; US Congress and
UNSG Urge of 8 July at: http://eri24.com/news6052.htm
<http://eri24.com/news6052.htm> ; Secretary Colin Powell's Remarks on Africa
Policy of 8 July at: www.state.gov/secretary/rm/34251.htm
<http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/34251.htm> (via: www.state.gov/p/af/
<http://www.state.gov/p/af/> ).
Israeli Barrier Advisory Opinion is not yet reported upon at:
www.icj-cij.org <http://www.icj-cij.org> but its result is already
presented at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3879057.stm
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3879057.stm> It seems that only
Judge Thomas Buergenthal dissented, even though hopefully at least some
Judges appended their concurring Opinions. The Opinion will later be
commented upon at: www.middleeastdaily.com <http://www.middleeastdaily.com>
, www.unitednationsnews.com <http://www.unitednationsnews.com> ,
www.un.org/News <http://www.un.org/News> and elsewhere.
The third volume of Summaries of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders
of the International Court of Justice 1997-2002, ST/LEG/SER.F/1/Add.2
(United Nations: New York 2003), containing perhaps the most important
decisions in the history of the World Court, was just published under Sales
No. E.03.V.12. They are surveyed in my article on the ICJ Triennium
1997-2000 & Beyond at: www.uu.nl/content/TRIEN210604.PDF
<http://www.uu.nl/content/TRIEN210604.PDF> or under Publications - Papers
at NILOS website of: www.law.uu.nl/nilos <http://www.law.uu.nl/nilos> The
6th Revision of Shabtai Rosenne's The World Court, Edited by Terry Gill et
al., is at: www.brill.nl/product.asp?article_ID=651
<http://www.brill.nl/product.asp?article_ID=651&ID=18150> &ID=18150
With respect to Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands items circulated via IBRU before
(the latest having been of 1 July at:
www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=14438
<http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=14438> ), please see IMF
Managing Director Rodrigo de Rato's Interview of 9 July at:
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200407/09/eng20040709_149081.html
<http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200407/09/eng20040709_149081.html>
Best regards, Barbara
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 11:21 AM
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Subject: Equatorial Guinea and Gabon have signed an agreement
Colleagues
Thought this might interest some of you
Best wishes - Charles
Charles Gurdon
Menas Associates
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African leaders look to settle territorial dispute
Oil fires Mbanie peace pact
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The leaders of Equatorial Guinea and Gabon have signed an agreement to draw
up an accord on joint oil exploration in waters disputed for over three
decades.
Equatorial Guinea has become sub-Saharan Africa's third largest oil producer
in recent years but the dispute over a handful of islands has prevented the
full exploration of waters believed to hold large commercially exploitable
reserves, Reuters reported.
"The parties will abstain from all behaviour and all acts that could
compromise, impede, or endanger the negotiation and execution of the
accord," said the agreement, signed by the presidents of the two central
African countries on Tuesday.
The dispute has been simmering since 1972, when Gabon's army chased
Equatorial Guinean fighters from the island of Mbanie, but had been largely
forgotten until the prospect of oil rekindled interest in the Gulf of
Guinea.
Equatorial Guinean President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and his Gabonese
counterpart Omar Bongo pledged in the document to hold "formal negotiations"
on a joint development zone.
Shell Gabon says it has rights to prospect the Mbanie zone according to its
contract with the Gabonese authorities, and has said it would like to do so.
But it has put the project on hold because of the territorial dispute.
Mbanie, with an area of just 30 hectares (74 acres), and the nearby Corisco
islands are inhabited by people from the Benga ethnic group, present in both
Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.
Prof. Dr. Barbara Kwiatkowska
Professor of International Law of the Sea
Deputy Director NILOS
Faculty of Law - Utrecht University
Achter Sint Pieter 200
3512 HT Utrecht - The Netherlands
Phone: 31 30 253 7037/7038
Fax: 31 30 253 7073
http://www.law.uu.nl/nilos <http://www.law.uu.nl/nilos>
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