Germany and Netherlands Settle Old Border Dispute

10/30/2014 9:54:08 AM

(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Berlin October 24 (QNA) - Germany and the Netherlands on Friday settled a border dispute that goes back centuries agreeing to share an overlap in their offshore zones in the North Sea. They agreed in a 1960 treaty to share an estuary and its offshore waters to 3 nautical miles (5.6 kilometres) offshore but the next nine miles off the coast was left unregulated. Friday's agreement settled the dispute out to the 12-nautical-mile border according to German press agency (dpa).

A treaty was signed aboard a boat by German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his Dutch counterpart Bert Koenders. It regulates the economic uses of the sea bottom and was needed because power cables for offshore wind farms will soon run through the sea. (QNA)

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