Subject: newfound history of 1925 egit treaty helps focus eglysd datum search<br/>
Date: Jan 10, 2006 @ 23:24<br/>
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-883475370">the focal point of this interesting history of the<br/>
events leading up to the creation of what is today<br/>
egly<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2000/510/chrncls.htm">http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2000/510/chrncls.htm</a><br/>
is that the original 1925 egit agreement that<br/>
established this border has never been ratified by an<br/>
egyptian parliament<br/>
<br/>
however the ibs here<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/collection/LimitsinSeas/IBS061.pdf">http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/collection/LimitsinSeas/IBS061.pdf</a><br/>
does indicate on pdf page 4 that this treaty was<br/>
ratified by the egyptian government <br/>
on 7 july 1932<br/>
<br/>
& i dont think we need to detain ourselves over<br/>
whether the nature of the ratification or<br/>
participation matters to the try<br/>
<br/>
but in any case the article makes it apparent that<br/>
britain was not legally or directly involved in the<br/>
egit agreements of 1925 & 1926 which first delimited<br/>
this boundary & then clarified it & set up its first<br/>
demarcation commission<br/>
<br/>
this is the one that erected all but 9 of the 187<br/>
known egly markers reported by the ibs<br/>
& that delivered its report in april 1927<br/>
<br/>
& a careful review of the ibs after reading the above<br/>
article suggests that this commission report is the<br/>
right place to look for the datum spec rather than<br/>
expecting it in either of the agreements<br/>
since the delineations in both texts are still in<br/>
rather crude & general terms<br/>
& there is no indication that any maps ever<br/>
accompanied them<br/>
<br/>
so it seems the trail to eglysd will lead thru some<br/>
government archive in cairo or perhaps tripoli <br/>
or maybe even still rome <br/>
but at this point not so likely london any more<br/>
<br/>
probably worth waiting for both mohamed & brownlie<br/>
before proceeding further tho<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
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