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UAE-Oman border demarcation maps signed

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MUSCAT — The signing of detailed maps of border demarcation agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Sultanate of Oman for the sector stretching from Umm Al Zumool to East Eqaidat took place in Muscat yesterday, according to a statement issued at the end of the ceremony here yesterdaty.

Published: Wed 25 May 2005, 11:36 AM

Updated: Thu 2 Apr 2015, 8:31 PM

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The agreement had been signed on May 1, 1999 during the visit made by the late Shaikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan to Sultanate of Oman and his meeting with His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said.

Major-General Saif Abdullah Al Shaafar, Interior Ministry’s Under-Secretary, signed the maps on behalf of the UAE, while his Omani counterpart, Mohammed bin Sultan Al Busaidi, signed on behalf of Oman, the statement said.

The border in this sector had already been demarcated by means of two agreements signed in 1959 and 1960 between the late Shaikh Shakhbout bin Sultan Al Nahyan and the late Sultan Saeed bin Taymour.

Umm Al Zumool is the meeting point of the tripartite borders between the UAE, Oman and Saudi Arabia. Contacts between the three countries to specify the exact location of this point are under way.



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