OAPEC

Judicial Tribunal Clears First Hurdle in Iraqi-Syrian Pipeline Dispute

OAPEC's Judicial Tribunal, meeting in Kuwait on 7 January, dismissed Syrian objections that it lacks authority to hear a 1982 suit filed by Iraq claiming Syrian violation of the pipeline transit agreement between the two countries which has resulted in the closure of the oil pipeline linking Kirkuk with the Mediterranean terminals at Banias in Syria and Tripoli in Lebanon (MEES, 13 August 1984). Syria...