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North Sea Continental Shelf; Court: International Court of Justice: Full case name: North Sea Continental Shelf (Denmark/Federal Republic of Germany/Netherlands) Decided: February 20, 1969 () Court membership; Judges sitting: José Bustamante y Rivero (President) Vladimir Koretsky (Vice President) Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice Kōtarō Tanaka Philip ...
Aegean Sea Continental Shelf Case Greece Turkey: 10 August 1976 [125] 19 December 1978: Judgment on Jurisdiction 63: Continental Shelf (Tunisia/Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) Libya Tunisia: 1 December 1978 [126] 24 February 1982: Judgment on Merits 64: United States Diplomatic and Consular Staff in Tehran United States Iran: 29 November 1979 [127] 24 ...
Agreement between the Libyan Arab Socialist People's Jamahariya and the Republic of Tunisia to Implement the Judgment of the International Court of Justice in the Tunisia/Libya Continental Shelf Case Mozambique Tanzania: 28 Dec 1988
In the case of the scientific or extended continental shelf, the coastal state to which it has been granted is the only one entitled to exploit the natural resources found in the seabed and subsoil, whether mineral resources or other non-living resources, as well as living organisms.
In 1982, the International Court of Justice ruled in Libya's favor in the partition of the oil-rich continental shelf it shares with Tunisia. Libya's 1985 expulsion of Tunisian workers and military threats led Tunisia to sever relations. Relations were normalized again in 1987.
The Philippines filed a claim with the U.N. on Saturday to an extended continental shelf (ECS) in the South China Sea, a waterway where it has had increasingly confrontational maritime disputes ...
Article 1 of the convention defined the term shelf in terms of exploitability rather than relying upon the geological definition. It defined a shelf "to the seabed and subsoil of the submarine areas adjacent to the coast but outside the area of the territorial sea, to a depth of 200 meters or, beyond that limit, to where the depth of the superjacent waters admits of the exploitation of the ...
Hundreds of migrants in Tunisia were caught in a wave of detentions and expulsions to Libya in the second half of last year, according to the briefing, dated Jan. 23.