nice instant tripoint coverage
& we will need to add these new improved data to our ongoing african
tripointing file
m
btw as a punctologist i find the notion that boundaries or wars etc
cost lives as hard to swallow as the similarly prevalent notion that
seatbelts save lives
for one thing
we come & go at will
& for another
life & lives are never really lost nor saved
but just transformed perhaps
another illusion of individuation in physical reality
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "ps1966nl" <smaardijk@y...> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --- 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