Dispute over Qatar-Bahrain border escalates

SANAA, Jul. 31 (YPA) – The Advisor to the King of Bahrain stressed his country’s sovereignty over the Hawar Islands, and its right to sovereignty over the Qatari Islands of Zubara. These remarks reopened the Bahraini and Qatari’s territorial dispute.

The two countries have long competed over their maritime boundaries for decades, before being satisfied with the 2001 ruling of the International Court of Justice, which ruled that Bahrain’s sovereignty over the Hawar Islands and the Jarada region, and Qatar’s sovereignty over the Islands of Zubara, Jinan and Fasht al-Dibel.

“Bahrain’s Hawar and the Zubara Islands are for the people of Bahrain and have rights that will not be lost,” said former Bahrain Foreign Minister and Royal Chancellor Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, in response to a wide-ranging social media campaign.

“We have 83 forged documents, but the International Court has ruled that the Island of hawar for Bahraini , while the Zubara Islands still, is a Bahraini, they like it or not .

لدينا 83 وثيقة مزورة تدعي ما تريد ان تدعي ، و لكن حكمت المحكمة الدولية بأن #حوار_بحرينيه . بقيت الزبارة ، ان اهلها بحرينيون شاء المدعون او ابوا و إن حقوقهم لن تضيع مهما طال الزمن. #راشد_الجبر_النعيمي

— خالد بن ‏أحمد (@khalidalkhalifa) July 30, 2021

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