Dominican Republic
despite efforts to control illegal migration,
destitute Haitians continue to cross into the Dominican Republic
East Timor
East Timor-Indonesia Boundary Committee meets regularly
to survey and delimit the land boundary; some East Timor refugees
delay return from camps in Indonesia; maritime delimitation and
resource-sharing agreements signed with Australia resolved dispute
over "Timor Gap" hydrocarbon reserves, but maritime agreement with
Indonesia awaits further discussions
Ecuador
none
Egypt
Egypt and Sudan retain claims to administer the triangular
areas that extend north and south of the 1899 Treaty boundary along
the 22nd Parallel, but have withdrawn their military presence -
Egypt is economically developing the "Hala'ib triangle" north of the
Treaty line
El Salvador
in 1992, the ICJ ruled on the delimitation of "bolsones"
(disputed areas) along the El Salvador-Honduras boundary, but they
remain largely undemarcated; in 2002, El Salvador filed an
application to the ICJ to revise the decision on a section of
bolsones; the ICJ also advised a tripartite resolution to a maritime
boundary in the Golfo de Fonseca with consideration of Honduran
access to the Pacific; El Salvador claims tiny Conejo Island, not
mentioned by the ICJ, off Honduras in the Golfo de Fonseca
Equatorial Guinea
in 2002, ICJ ruled on an equidistance settlement
of Cameroon-Equatorial Guinea-Nigeria maritime boundary in the Gulf
of Guinea, but states have not yet agreed to abide by the decision;
creation of a maritime boundary in hydrocarbon-rich Corisco Bay with
Gabon is hampered by dispute over small islets on Mbane/Mbagne bank,
administered and occupied by Gabon since the 1970s
Eritrea
Eritrea and Ethiopia agreed to abide by 2002 independent
boundary commission delimitation decision, but demarcation,
scheduled to begin in 2003, has been hampered by technical delays
and Ethiopian concerns that the decision ignored "human geography"
and awarded Badme, the focus of the 1998-2000 war, to Eritrea,
demarcation of the boundary has been postponed indefinately; UN
Peacekeeping Mission to Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) monitors a 25
km wide Temporary Security Zone in Eritrea until the demarcation;
Sudan accuses Eritrea of supporting Sudanese rebel groups; Eritrea
protests Yemeni fishing around the Hanish Islands awarded to Eritrea
by the ICJ in 1999
Estonia
Russia continues to reject signing and ratifying the joint
December 1996 technical border agreement with Estonia
Ethiopia
Eritrea and Ethiopia agreed to abide by 2002 independent
boundary commission delimitation decision, but demarcation,
scheduled to begin in 2003, has been hampered by technical delays
and Ethiopian concerns that the decision ignored "human geography"
and awarded Badme, the focus of the 1998-2000 war, to Eritrea,
demarcation of the boundary has been postponed indefinately;
Ethiopia maintains only an administrative line and no international
border with the Oromo region of southern Somalia and maintains
alliances with local clans in opposition to the Transitional
National Government in Mogadishu; "Somaliland" secessionists provide
port facilities and trade ties to land-locked Ethiopia; efforts to
demarcate the porous boundary with Sudan have been delayed by civil
war there
Europa Island
claimed by Madagascar