VOL. XXXIX

No. 43

22-July-1996

QATAR

Saudi Arabia Launches Initiative To Settle Qatari-Bahraini Dispute

Saudi Arabia has launched a new initiative to help settle the border dispute between Qatar and Bahrain concerning sovereignty over the Hawar Islands and other reefs which has been pending at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the Hague since 1991. In recent weeks Qatar has said that if no acceptable solution to the dispute can be reached through Saudi mediation, it will...