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ICJ decisions similar to the Mediterranean and Islands Sea EEZ and the Continental Shelf problem;

In the 1977-78 Anglo-French Continental Shelf Case, the phrase "equal distance-special circumstances" was accepted as a unified rule. #Türkiye
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📌It has decided that the border of the continental shelf in the Channel should be the equidistant midline based on the coasts of the mainland countries of the two states. It has been stated that the islands cannot have a continental shelf.⤵️

#France is quiet.🤔
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Libya-Tunisia Continental Shelf;ICJ stated that Article 6 of the Convention cannot be applied and accepted the existence of special conditions.
In 1984,the existence of special conditions was accepted in the determination of the maritime boundaries of the Gulf of Maine and LY-MT ImageImage
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Yesterday, @CIJ_ICJ handed down its judgment on the #maritimeboundary between #Somalia and #Kenya. This was the first judgment since the Court’s renewal in February 2021 and Judge Donoghue’s election as President (source of all images: @CIJ_ICJ). 👩🏻‍⚖️
Kenya did not appear at the oral proceedings before the ICJ after appearing at the preliminary objections phase (link to preliminary objections judgment below). However, the ICJ could rely on its written submissions, filed before deciding not to appear.

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Somalia and Kenya had very different views on their maritime boundary. Somalia argued that there was no agreed boundary, so that the ICJ had to delimit a boundary by the 3-stage approach in use since the 2009 #BlackSea case (link below, [115]-[122]). 👩🏽‍💼

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