VOL. XXXIX

No. 54

7-October-1996

Qatar/ Bahrain

Bahrain And Qatar Submit Depositions To ICJ On Territorial Bahrain Dispute

It was officially announced in Doha on 1 October that both Qatar and Bahrain, the two Gulf states which are locked in a long-standing territorial dispute with regard to sovereignty over the Hawar Islands and some adjacent reefs lying between them, as well as the question of the demarcation of the maritime borders, have now submitted their official depositions...