Cape Verde–Senegal Maritime Delimitation Treaty

Cape Verde – Senegal Maritime Delimitation Treaty
Treaty on the delimitation of the maritime frontier between the Republic of Cape Verde and the Republic of Senegal
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maritime boundaries of Cape Verde, Mauritania, and neighboring countries.
Type boundary delimitation
Signed 17 February 1993
Parties  Cape Verde
 Senegal
Depositary United Nations United Nations Secretariat
Languages French; Portuguese

The Cape Verde – Senegal Maritime Delimitation Treaty is a treaty between Cape Verde and Senegal in which the two states agreed to the delimitation of their maritime boundary.[1]

The treaty was signed on February 17, 1993. The boundary set out by the text of the treaty identifies a line which trends north-south for approximately 150 nm. in seven maritime segments defined by eight specific coordinate points. The boundary lies approximately 9 nm. to 20 nm. east of an equidistant line between the two territories.[2]

The official name for the treaty is Treaty on the Delimitation of the Maritime Frontier between the Republic of Cape Verde and the Republic of Senegal.[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ Anderson, Ewan W. (2003). International Boundaries: A Geopolitical Atlas, pp. 158-159; Charney, Jonathan I. et al. (1998). International Maritime Boundaries, Vol. 3, pp. 2279–2291., p. 2279, at Google Books
  2. 1 2 Charney, p. 2279., p. 2279, at Google Books

References

  • Anderson, Ewan W. (2003). International Boundaries: A Geopolitical Atlas. Routledge: New York. ISBN 9781579583750; OCLC 54061586
  • Charney, Jonathan I., David A. Colson, Robert W. Smith. (2005). International Maritime Boundaries, 5 vols. Hotei Publishing: Leiden. ISBN 9780792311874; ISBN 9789041119544; ISBN 9789041103451; ISBN 9789004144613; ISBN 9789004144798; OCLC 23254092


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