Subject: Andorran border markers
Date: Mar 08, 2003 @ 07:57
Author: Jesper Nielsen ("Jesper Nielsen" <jesniel@...>)
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I was asking Eef Berns about the Andorran tripoints and border markers.
 
Eef is referring to the lack of border treaties etc, and concludes: "The borders of Andorra are still -after all these centuries- provisional. There's no overall agreement with either France or Spain. The act of demarcation between France and Spain (1868) gives no description of the French-Andorrran border. There's no border-treaty known between Andorra and Spain, although there's a reference to a to a mixed Andorran-Spanish commission who installed boundary markers around 1860. The Andorran constitution (1993) states that the borderline is the 'traditional one'. Several maps contain the remark: "the Spain-Andorran boundary line hasn't been officially sanctioned" or likewise.
However, in two areas Andorra and France came to a delimitation act. The first is about the border of the Andorran parish of St. Julia de Loria with Spain (1856). The second (2000) delimited the border near the French village of Porta. Neither of these agreements comprises the tripoints. Between Andorra and Spain there is at least one disputed area: a zone near the Montmalus peak."
http://home.wanadoo.nl/~eefberns/andorra-tripoints-in%20english.html
 
The CIA Worldbook is simply just saying "border is undemarcated in sections".
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/an.html
 
Does anybody have more to add?
 
Jesper