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Here are two other stories on this topic:1. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/01/saudi-arabia-may-dig-canal-to-turn-qatar-into-an-island2. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/01/saudi-arabia-drops-latest-hint-plans-canal-turn-gulf-rival-qatar/with the latter being a recent update. Unless the twitter account holder has made their tweets private, tweets are publicly available even if you do not have an account. I believe that this https://twitter.com/saudq1978 is the correct twitter account, but I do not speak the language being used, so I cannot be certain. The images accompanying many of the tweets are quite clear. Ilan On Saturday, September 1, 2018, 5:32:49 PM GMT+1, Maurice Mendelson QC <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Dear colleagues, I certainly do not necessarily believe everything I read in the London "Daily Mail", and as I am not a Twitter user I cannot comment on the Saudi Crown Prince's alleged Twitter comment, but I would nevertheless like to draw colleagues' attention to the following article: https://dailym.ai/2wDybnD . It raises all sorts of interesting legal and other issues. The article says that it would stretch along the border with Qatar. It is impossible to tell from the accompanying sketch-map, but if the waterway were constructed entirely within Saudi territory I presume that it would be a canal and entirely under Saudi sovereignty. It would not automatically be subject to international traffic, like the Panama and Suez canals, even if the draught was deep enough: some form of dedication to international purposes is necessary for that. If the plan were, rather, to follow international boundary more closely, further issues could arise, notably, concerning Qatar's rights as a riparian. And law of the sea considerations might also come in. They might also be environmental issues related to the dredging, either way. This is not an attempt by me to suggest answers; I just thought that colleagues might be interested, and some may possibly wish to contribute their own views. Regards to all, Maurice Mendelson With apologies for any errors in my voice-recognition system. Prof. Maurice Mendelson, Q.C. Blackstone Chambers Barristers Blackstone House Temple London EC4Y 9BW England. Tel. +44 20 7583 1770; fax +4420 7822 7350; [log in to unmask] This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may be confidential and legally privileged. This e-mail is intended to be read only by the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this e-mail is prohibited and that privilege has not been waived. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by replying by email or by telephone and then delete the e-mail. This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. www.websense.com To unsubscribe from the INT-BOUNDARIES list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=INT-BOUNDARIES&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the INT-BOUNDARIES list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=INT-BOUNDARIES&A=1