Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Pedra_Branca_dispute> ?p ?o }
- Pedra_Branca_dispute abstract "The Pedra Branca dispute [2008] ICJ 2 was a territorial dispute between Singapore and Malaysia over several islets at the eastern entrance to the Singapore Strait, namely Pedra Branca (previously called Pulau Batu Puteh and now Batu Puteh by Malaysia), Middle Rocks and South Ledge. The dispute began in 1979 and was largely resolved by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 2008, which opined that Pedra Branca belonged to Singapore and Middle Rocks belonged to Malaysia.In early 1980, Singapore lodged a formal protest with Malaysia in response to a map published by Malaysia in 1979 claiming Pedra Branca. In 1989 Singapore proposed submitting the dispute to the ICJ. Malaysia agreed to this in 1994. In 1993, Singapore also claimed the nearby islets Middle Rocks and South Ledge. In 1998 the two countries agreed on the text of a Special Agreement that was needed to submit the dispute to the ICJ. The Special Agreement was signed in February 2003, and the ICJ formally notified of the Agreement in July that year. The hearing before the ICJ was held over three weeks in November 2007 under the name Sovereignty over Pedra Branca/Pulau Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks and South Ledge (Malaysia v. Singapore).Singapore argued that Pedra Branca was terra nullius, and that there was no evidence the island had ever been under the sovereignty of the Johor Sultanate. In the event the Court did not accept this argument, Singapore contended that sovereignty over the island had passed to Singapore due to the consistent exercise of authority over the island by Singapore and its predecessor, the United Kingdom. The actions taken included selecting Pedra Branca as the site for Horsburgh Lighthouse and constructing the lighthouse, requiring Malaysian officials wishing to visit the island to obtain permits, installing a military rebroadcast station on the island, and studying the feasibility of reclaiming land around the island. Malaysia had remained silent in the face of these activities. In addition, it had confirmed in a 1953 letter that Johor did not claim ownership of the island, and had published official reports and maps indicating that it regarded Pedra Branca as Singapore territory. Middle Rocks and South Ledge should be regarded as dependencies of Pedra Branca.Malaysia's case was that Johor had original title to Pedra Branca, Middle Rocks and South Ledge. Johor had not ceded Pedra Branca to the United Kingdom, but had merely granted permission for the lighthouse to be built and maintained on it. The actions of the United Kingdom and Singapore in respect of the Horsburgh Lighthouse and the waters surrounding the island were not actions of the island's sovereign. Further, the 1953 letter had been unauthorised and the official reports and maps it had issued were either irrelevant or inconclusive.On 23 May 2008, the Court ruled that Pedra Branca is under Singapore's sovereignty, while Middle Rocks belongs to Malaysia. As regards South Ledge, the Court noted that it falls within the apparently overlapping territorial waters generated by mainland Malaysia, Pedra Branca and Middle Rocks. As it is a maritime feature visible only at low tide, it belongs to the state in the territorial waters of which it is located. Malaysia and Singapore have established what they have named the Joint Technical Committee to delimit the maritime boundary in the area around Pedra Branca and Middle Rocks, and to determine the ownership of South Ledge.".
- Pedra_Branca_dispute thumbnail Hessel_Gerritsz,_Map_of_Sumatra_showing_Pedra_Branca_(1620).jpg?width=300.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageExternalLink pbp-icj.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageExternalLink index.php?p1=3&p2=3&k=2b&case=130&code=masi&p3=1.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageExternalLink index.php?p1=3&p2=3&k=2b&case=130&code=masi&p3=4.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageExternalLink 2.html.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageExternalLink pbp-icj.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageID "17586244".
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageLength "105949".
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageOutDegree "227".
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageRevisionID "706551494".
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Abdul_Ghani_Othman.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Abdul_Koroma.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Aceh_Sultanate.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink All_Souls_College,_Oxford.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Ambassador-at-Large.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink American_Journal_of_International_Law.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Anglo-Dutch_Treaty_of_1824.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Association_of_Southeast_Asian_Nations.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Attorney-General_of_Singapore.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Awn_Shawkat_Al-Khasawneh.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Balaji_Sadasivan.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Barristers_in_England_and_Wales.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Batam.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Bernardo_Sepúlveda_Amor.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Bintan_Island.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Biotite.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Boundary_delimitation.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink British_Academy.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink British_Empire.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink British_Overseas_Territories.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink British_Raj.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Bruno_Simma.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Cape_of_Good_Hope.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Category:2008_in_Malaysia.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Category:2008_in_Singapore.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Category:2008_in_case_law.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Category:2008_in_international_relations.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Category:International_Court_of_Justice_cases.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Category:Malaysia–Singapore_border.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Category:Malaysia–Singapore_relations.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Category:Pedra_Branca,_Singapore.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Category:Territorial_disputes_of_Malaysia.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Category:Territorial_disputes_of_Singapore.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Cession.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Chan_Sek_Keong.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Channel_NewsAsia.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Chao_Hick_Tin.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Chief_Justice_of_Singapore.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Chief_Ministers_in_Malaysia.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Chief_Secretary.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Concession_(contract).
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Cornerstone.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Deputy_Prime_Minister_of_Malaysia.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Disclaimer.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Downing_College,_Cambridge.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Durham_University.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Dutch_West_India_Company.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink East_India_Company.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink East_Indies.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Ensign.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Eversheds.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Exclusive_economic_zone.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink File:Pulau_batu_puteh_letter.jpg.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Fisheries_Act_1985.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Flag_of_Singapore.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Foreign_relations_of_Malaysia.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Foreign_relations_of_Singapore.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Galang_Island.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Geomorphology.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Gonzalo_Parra-Aranguren.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Government_of_Singapore.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Graduate_Institute_of_International_and_Development_Studies.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Granite.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Hisashi_Owada.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Horsburgh_Lighthouse.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Hussein_Onn.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Hussein_Shah_of_Johor.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Hydrographic_survey.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Hydrography.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Ian_Brownlie.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Ibrahim_of_Johor.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Institut_de_Droit_International.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink International_Court_of_Justice.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink International_Law_Commission.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Iskandar_of_Johor.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Island_of_Palmas_Case.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Islet.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink James_Horsburgh.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink John_Crawfurd.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink John_Turnbull_Thomson.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Johor.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Johor_River.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Johor_Sultanate.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Karimun_Java.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Karimun_regency.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Kelantan.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Kenneth_Keith.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Latin.
- Pedra_Branca_dispute wikiPageWikiLink Lee_Hsien_Loong.