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Arbitration Academy The Abyei Arbitration 10 July 2012. DM 61633. BACKGROUND TO ABYEI ARBITRATION. January 1, 1956 Sudan obtains independence

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  1. Arbitration Academy The Abyei Arbitration 10 July 2012 DM 61633

  2. BACKGROUND TO ABYEI ARBITRATION January 1, 1956 Sudan obtains independence 1956 – 1972 First Civil War between North & South ending in Addis Ababa Agreement Southern Sudanese tribes to have referendum on right to self-determine 1983 – 2005 Second Civil War between North & South More than 2 million dead

  3. 2005 COMPREHENSIVE PEACE AGREEMENT (“CPA”) Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between Government of Sudan and SPLM/A marked end of war. - set timetable for referendum on independence of South (2011) - contained chapter dealing with unresolved issue of Abyei region

  4. ABYEI ARBITRATION Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3211002.stm DM 55704

  5. 2005 COMPREHENSIVE PEACE AGREEMENT (“CPA”) Abyei Boundaries Commission (“ABC”)

  6. FURTHER PEACE EFFORT • July 2008: Parties sign “Abyei Arbitration Agreement” and deposit agreement with the PCA in The Hague

  7. OCTOBER 2008: TRIBUNAL CONSTITUTED

  8. ABYEI ORAL PLEADINGS 19 – 23 April 2009

  9. SCOPE OF THE TRIBUNAL’S TASK: “EXCESS”?

  10. SCOPE OF THE TRIBUNAL’S TASK: DELIMIT?

  11. GOVERNING LAW

  12. I- Excess of Mandate Power to interpret mandate - Video Clip 1 - Professor W. Michael Reisman questioning Professor Alain Pellet – Counsel

  13. A- Excess of Mandate: 10°35’N Did the ABC Experts state sufficient reasons in the selection of latitude 10°35’N as the northern boundary of the shared-rights area between the Ngok and the Misseriya?

  14. A- Excess of Mandate: 10°35’NAward 691. [T]he only reason offered in support of the northern limit of the shared rights area and, by implication, of the Abyei Area boundary calculated on the basis of that limit, is the northern extension of the Goz. In the Tribunal’s view, this single reference to the Goz does not amount to a reasoned decision.

  15. II – Boundary Delimitation Should the Bahr el Arab River be considered the northern boundary of the nine Ngok Dinka chiefdoms in 1905?

  16. A - Boundary Delimitation: Bahr el Arab River 1 – Pleading of the Government of Sudan Determinate position of the Bahr el Arab River in 1905 Video Clip 2 – Mr. Alastair Macdonald, Expert

  17. A - Boundary Delimitation: Bahr el Arab River 2- Pleading of the Sudan’s People Liberation Movement/Army Location of the Bahr el Arab River in 1905 not determined Video Clip 3 – Cross-examination by Ms. Wendy Miles, Counsel

  18. A - Boundary Delimitation: Bahr el Arab River 3- Award: Bahr el Arab River does not form the northern boundary 676. […] [T]he ABC Experts did not consider the line that was treated as the provincial boundary by the Condominium officials to be the boundary of the Abyei area. […] [T]he provincial boundary as it was conceived of by the Condominium officials was only one of many indicators (and not necessarily the determinative one). […]

  19. A - Boundary Delimitation: Bahr el Arab River 4- Dissenting Opinion: Bahr el Arab River should form the northern boundary 1. The ABC Experts [did] not [have] to ascertain where the Ngok people lived in 1905 nor to pronounce on land uses in southern Kordofan. [T]he provincial boundary between Kordofan and Bahr el Ghazal was […] clear enough to effect a delimitation, and the mandate itself assumed the existence of such a boundary.

  20. JULY 2009: REACTIONS TO AWARD 23 Al Jazeera video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUht3I2x088

  21. New Escalation Of Tensions

  22. 20 June 2011Security Council SC/10286 Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York NORTH, SOUTH SIGN INTERIM AGREEMENT TO PULL TROOPS OUT OF DISPUTED ABYEI

  23. Transparency

  24. GUYANA v. SURINAME “Opposition parties in Suriname have been calling for the removal of the country's government based on the premise that Suriname was outmaneuvered because the legal team selected to fight the case with Guyana was underprepared and inept”. Wilkinson,  Bert.  “SURINAME:  SETTLEMENT  WITH  GUYANA SPARKS DOMESTIC  DISCONTENT.” Goliath: Business Knowledge On Demand. Interpress Service,      23      Nov.      2007. 

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