Al-Faisal: Saudi Arabia, UAE work to settle sea borders
Saudi Arabia-United Arab Emirates, Politics, 3/25/2005

The Saudi foreign minister Saud al-Faisal said that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are working to find a "simple partial settlement" concerning the borders the two states finalized over it since 31 years.

The Saudi daily Okaz quoted al-Faisal as saying that "the issue of the border was issued and this is settled and what is left is very simple technical matter relating to the defining of the water passage, and efforts are continuous between the two countries to fulfill this side."

On what was broadcasted by certain media that there are border differences between the kingdom and the UAE, al-Faisal said "there are no differences with the UAE." He expressed his regret that "certain media create stories of differences between the Arab states for special objectives."

In February, the Saudi minister of the interior denied any border differences with Abu Dhabi. This was in reactions to statements by Gulf officials in which they indicated tension between the two states over the emergence of an old conflict.

In August 1974, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates signed "Jeddah agreement" which stated that Abu Dhabi keeps the 6 villages of al-Breimi area including "al-Ein, the base of al-Breimi oases, most of al-Zafra desert," and on the other hand, al-Riyadh got Khour al-Aided which includes a coastal area which separates between the lands of the UAE and Qatar and parts of Mattei swamp and some 80% of the oil fields of al-Sheiba.

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