Sudan International Court Ruling Boosts Northern Oil Claims

摘要

Northern Sudan will retain the legal rights to several key oil fields in the event that the south votes to secede in a referendum due in 2011, following an international court ruling on Wednesday. The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in the Hague reduced the area of the disputed oil-producing Abyei region in a verdict that both the north and the south pledged in advance to accept.