[Kuwait] Le Probleme de la delimitation du Plateau Continental entre Koweit et ses Voisins 1976-1977

Al-Salih, Othman Abdulmalik

Verlag: Universite de Koweit, Kuwait, 1977

Beschreibung

Copy of a typescript in gilt-titled green cloth 22x34cm. 94pp French text with most Annexes in English, printed to the rectos only. Covers very good, bowed, rubbed and bumped to the extremities with some light marks. Interiors mostly near fine except for perforations to the fore-edges of the first few leaves (not affecting text), some short closed tears, scarring to the blank front endpapers (which had been partially stuck together), and official French ink stamp to the title. There is no p50 or 53, but the text from the end of p49 to start of p51, and the end of p52 to start of p54 appears to be continuous, and there is no sign of removal. Although not marked as such, this looks to be a pre-publication version of a paper of the same name that appeared in Kuwait University's Journal of Law and Sharia (2, 1978, pp3-69). Extremely rare - Worldcat records the Journal version only, without locations. Dr Othman Abdulmalik Al-Salih is credited here as a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law and Sharia. Worldcat also records his related earlier thesis ("L'Etablissement des droits du Koweit sur son plateau continental", 1971). The subject of maritime borders in the Gulf became pressing in the 1960s with major offshore discoveries of oil and gas, yet had received very little attention relative to land and river borders. In 1953 the UN International Law Commission said it would not be possible to establish rules delimiting continental shelves, and any attempt to do so would run into practical problems. In 1964, the international Convention on the Continental Shelf came into force, establishing the rights of a sovereign state over the continental shelf surrounding it. This paper addresses the difficulty in applying the concept of the continental shelf in the Arabian / Persian Gulf owing to a lack of natural boundaries. Describing the lack of agreement between Kuwait and its neighbours, it attempts to find a solution with a review of principles such as equity and equidistance. While relations between Kuwait and its neighbours are presently friendly, political and economic needs call for speedy resolution. Reflecting progress made between other Gulf states, the annexes contain the continental shelf treaties between Bahrain and Saudi Arabia (1958), Saudi Arabia and Iran (1968), Abu Dhabi and Qatar (1969), Iran and Qatar (1969), Iran and Bahrain (1971), and Iran and Oman (1974). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 4883

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Titel: [Kuwait] Le Probleme de la delimitation du ...

Verlag: Universite de Koweit, Kuwait

Erscheinungsdatum: 1977

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good