VOL. XLIII

No. 24

12-June-2000

KUWAIT/SAUDI ARABIA

Kuwait And Saudi Arabia To Continue Talks On Offshore Boundary

Kuwaits Oil Minister Shaikh Sa'ud Nasir al-Sabah held talks in Riyadh on 6 June with his Saudi counterpart Ali al-Naimi about the offshore Neutral Zone area between the two countries which has not been delineated. The continuing failure of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to agree on a maritime boundary was highlighted earlier this year when Iran started drilling in the vicinity of the Dorra...