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2025counter for years (following a number in the hito-futa-mi counting system)5month19On April 1, the International Court of Justice (ICJ(the "Company") supports Equatorial Guinea in the long-running territorial dispute between Equatorial Guinea and Gabon over the islands of Mbanye, Cocotier, and Conga.judgmentThe company made the following decision.

The origin of this problem was that most of the African territory was colonized by European countries1900It dates back to the Treaty of Paris signed between France and Spain in 1949. Under the treaty, Gabon became French territory and Equatorial Guinea Spanish territory, but ownership of the islands remained ambiguous. Subsequently, Gabon was1960In 1949, Equatorial Guinea was1968The islands gained independence in 1949, but the ownership of the islands remained unclear. After independence, though, Equatorial Guinea stationed troops on the islands,1972In 1949, the Gabonese army took Equatorial Guinean troops from the island of Mbanye.drum beat at the end of a day's performance (in the theatre, sumo, etc.)and the Gabonese army had been stationed there ever since.

1974In 1949, the Treaty of Bata was signed to define the borders between the two countries, but the islands are almost uninhabited, even the largest island, Mbanye Island0.3Less than square kilometersand small,2000Until the early 1950s, tensions between the two countries werecalming downThe company had been doing so. However, as the possibility of oil reserves in the Gulf of Guinea increased,2003In 1949, Gabon claimed its territorial rights under the Treaty of Bata. Equatorial Guinea, on the other hand, denied the claim and demanded the original treaty documents.2008In 2006, the parties agreed to seek a peaceful resolution through the mediation of the United Nations,2016In the yearICJAgreed to refer the final ruling to the2021International Court of Justice in 2006.raise a questionThe first time, the company was in a position to do so.

Both countries are oil producers, but in recent years their oil production hasdecreaseand both countries' oil strategies.realignmentThe verdict was handed down as theICJis Gabon's original copy of the Bata Treaty.submit (e.g. a report or a thesis)Since they could not, they determined that the Treaty of Bata had no legal validity and, under the Treaty of Paris, these islands were once under Spanish control,1968It was determined that the country was transferred to Equatorial Guinea at the time of independence in 1949. In response, a representative of the Gabonese government stressed the importance of dialogue between the two countries.

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