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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 May 2009
1. 21 ILM (1982) p. 1261. All of the claimants, except for Taiwan, are a party to the LOS Convention.
2. Particularly relevant in this connection is the Dubai/Sharjah Border arbitration. Dubai had argued that the island of Abu Musa should be confined to a territorial sea of 3 miles because a 12 mile territorial sea would encroach too much on Dubai's continental shelf. The Court rejected this claim, finding that Abu Musa as an island was entitled ‘ex principio to a belt of territorial sea quite independently and separately from either the actual or potential continental shelf claims of neighboring states’. (Dubai-Sharjah Border Arbitration, Decision of 19 October 1981 (91 ILR p. 543 at p. 674).