Neutral Zone (Iraq)
The neutral zone between Saudi Arabia and Iraq was an area in the border area of these two states with an area of 7044 km².
geography
The neutral zone was defined by four boundary points that were connected by straight lines ( great circles ). The area so demarcated had roughly the shape of a parallelogram :
Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap
| Limit point | Designation DMG |
Arabic | Type | Coordinates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern border point | ʿAuǧat al-Bāṭin 1) | عوجة الباطن | Wadi bend | 29 ° 6 ′ 5 ″ N , 46 ° 33 ′ 19 ″ E |
| Southern border point | Ābār al-Wuqubā | آبار الوقبى | Fountain | 28 ° 46 ′ 30 ″ N , 45 ° 31 ′ 5 ″ E |
| Western border point | Maḫfar Ḥudūd Anṣāb | مخفر حدود أنصاب | Fountain | 29 ° 11 ′ 54 ″ N , 44 ° 43 ′ 19 ″ E |
| Northern border point | Ǧabal al-Amġar | جبل الأمغر | mountain | 29 ° 27 '23 " N , 45 ° 29' 58" E |
1) In the Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman and Oman from 1933, the eastern border point is a point near Ar Rigai ( A point in the vicinity of Ar Rigai ) called. Ar Ruq'ī or Raqa'i is a Saudi village a good eight kilometers east-southeast of this border point.
Ayār ar Rukhaymīyah (عيار الرخيمية) lies in the northern part, now part of Iraq .
history
It was created on December 2, 1922 as a result of the Uqair Protocol . In this, Great Britain - at that time mandate power over Iraq - and the Sultanate of Najd - forerunner state of what would later become Saudi Arabia - set the borders between the two countries. In 1938 an agreement was signed on the joint administration of the area.
No military installations or permanent settlements were allowed to be established in the area of the neutral zone. Nomads from both sides were allowed to use the grazing grounds.
A provisional agreement on the division of the neutral zone was signed in 1975, and in a border treaty signed on December 26, 1981 and ratified in 1983, the division by the east-west diagonal was completed. For reasons unknown, this border treaty was not submitted to the United Nations . The border treaty was not made public, and no one outside Iraq and Saudi Arabia was officially notified of the existence of such an agreement. At the beginning of the Second Gulf War in 1991, Iraq canceled all international agreements it had negotiated with Saudi Arabia since 1968. As a result, Saudi Arabia presented the UN border treaty in June 1991.
ISO codes
The neutral zone between Saudi Arabia and Iraq had ISO-3166-1 codes NT and NTZ. The use of these codes was discontinued in 1993 and replaced by the ISO 3166-3 code NTHH.
Web links
- Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Office of the Geographer: International Boundary Study, Iraq - Saudi Arabia Boundary, No. 111, June 1, 1971 (PDF; 288 kB)
- No. 28158, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, International Frontier Treaty
- Neutral Territory on Plate 34 in The Times Atlas (1959)
Individual evidence
- ^ Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman and Oman, 1933
- ↑ MILITARY REPORT on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrain, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman and Oman. 1933. , p. 9
Coordinates: 29 ° 7 ′ 31 ″ N , 45 ° 31 ′ 16 ″ E