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Notes from the margin: Recent Boundary Related News

20 August 2008

The announcement of a top-level meeting between Thai and Cambodian officials has raised hopes of an end to the long-running battle over access to an ancient temple, which is both a place of pilgrimage and has recently become a UNESCO listed tourist attraction... Read More...

14 August 2008

A flag-swapping ceremony will mark the handing over by Nigeria of the long disputed Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon today, despite a number of events intended to stall the handover. Read More...

14 August 2008

At a news conference, August 14, the governments of Syria and Lebanon confirmed that they would be proceeding with the demarcation of their shared border as part of a broader effort to improve relations between the two countries. Read More...

12 August 2008

The Reuters news agency has reported that a U.S. Coast Guard cutter is soon to embark on a voyage to determine the extent of the continental shelf north of Alaska and to map the ocean floor, in the course of a three-week journey commencing August 14.
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1 August 2008

South Korea is likely to step up efforts to develop energy resources near a cluster of rocks contested between Korea and Japan, newswires report. Observers expect the move could increase the level of tension over the islets, (known as Dokdo and Takeshima in Korean and Japanese respectively.)
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8th July 2008

A note in the annual report of Canadian oil company has revealed that friction continues between Libya and Malta over the sovereignty of undersea resources in the joint off-shore zone... Read More...

3rd July 2008

The Times of India has reported that several major roads and railways across the country have been blocked by demonstrations against a decision by the state governor of Jammu & Kashmir, to revoke an allotment of a parcel of land to a Hindu Temple... Read More...

21st June 2008

While the hot topic at the African Union meeting at Sharm El-Sheik is the legitimacy of Robert Mugabe in presidential elections, other agendas, will of course be discussed on the sidelines... Read More...

19th June 2008

A UK newspaper has reported that on June 21st, a former castaway will declare himself to be the head of the new state of Forvik, a breakaway from the United Kingdom and the European Union.... Read More...

16th June 2008

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has opened a mediation session between Gabon and Equatorial Guinea... Read More...

13th June 2008

Eritrean media has accused the United States government of using clashes on the Eritrean/Djibouti border as part of a plot to create regional uncertainty... Read More...

29th May 2008

There is no need for a new international legal regime to regulate activities in the Arctic, a five nation panel of Arctic nations declared last week in the Greenland town of Disko, conveying the message that they could be trusted to look after the region themselves once their conflicting claims to the Arctic Continental shelf had been settled under the 1982 Law of the Sea... Read More...

23rd May 2008

The small and contested island of Pedra Branca, or Pulau Batu Puteh belongs to Singapore, the International Court of Justice ruled May 23rd, thus ending years of speculation as to its ownership... Read More...