Common Contracts

Treaty between the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe on the Joint Development of Petroleum and other Resources, in respect of Areas of the Exclusive Economic Zone of the Two States

October 3rd, 2003

• Filed
  October 3rd, 2003

Taking into account the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, done at Montego Bay on 10 December 1982 and, in particular, article 74(3) which requires States with opposite coasts, in a spirit of understanding and cooperation, to make every effort, pending agreement on delimitation, to enter into provisional arrangements of a practical nature which do not jeopardize or hamper the reaching of the final agreement on the delimitation of their exclusive economic zones,