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Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 8:22
PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re:
Ethiopia/Eritrea Border
So no tripoint djeret established yet:
"Article I of
the 1908 Treaty provides that the boundary, running
southeast and at
distance of 60 km from the coast, continues until it
joins "the frontier
of theFrench possessions of Somalia." The
reference to "the French
possessions of Somalia" is understood by the
Parties to refer to the State
of Djibouti, which has succeeded
to "the French possessions of Somalia."
The 1908 Treaty does not
establish a particular place on the frontier with
Djibouti which
would become a tripoint by virtue of the Treaty of 1908,
but relies
upon the 60 km formula to establish the location of the
tripoint. The
termination of the boundary of the 1908 Treaty at its
easternmost
extremity is the point, 60 km from the coast, where the
boundary line
meets the frontier of Djibouti. The exact location of this
point
(Point 41) will be specified in the demarcation phase, taking account
of the nature and variation of the terrain as well as the precision
made possible by large-scale survey maps."
eretsd is fixed, but
interesting as well. Cf.:
"(...)Thus, it was the February 1903
demarcation that brought the
tripoint to the north bank of the Setit
opposite the Khor Royan.
5.12 It is not open to the Commission to
change the agreed tripoint
between Eritrea, Ethiopia and the Sudan. As the
Ethiopian-Eritrean
boundary is in this sector a river boundary, it must be
treated as
starting at the tripoint, then running to the centre of the
Setit,
immediately opposite that point, before turning eastwards and
continuing up the Setit until it turns to the northeast to run
towards
the confluence of Mareb and Mai Ambessa (Point 9)."
Peter S.
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In BoundaryPoint@y..., "shocktm" <andrew@A...> wrote:
> A five
member panel of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The
> Hague has
issued its ruling on the border dispute between Ethiopia
> and Eritrea.
The dispute was the centerpoint of a war that started
in
> 1998 and
cost 70,000 lives.
>
>
> BBC Article with links to many
more articles:
>
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1930000/19306
>
13.stm
>
> The Decision itself: http://www.un.org/NewLinks/eebcarbitration/
>
> -Andrew
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