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The Albania–Italy Boundary Agreement is a 1992 treaty between Albania and Italy in which the two countries agreed to delimit a maritime boundary between them in the
continental shelf A continental shelf is a portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water, known as a shelf sea. Much of these shelves were exposed by drops in sea level during glacial periods. The shelf surrounding an island ...
. The treaty was signed in Tirana on 18 December 1992. The text of the treaty sets out boundary in the
Strait of Otranto The Strait of Otranto ( sq, Ngushtica e Otrantos; it, Canale d'Otranto; hr, Otrantska Vrata) connects the Adriatic Sea with the Ionian Sea and separates Italy from Albania. Its width at Punta Palascìa, east of Salento is less than . The st ...
composed of 16 straight-line maritime segments defined by 17 individual coordinate points. The boundary represents an approximate equidistant line between Italy and Albania. The northernmost point of the boundary forms a maritime tripoint with Montenegro; the southernmost point forms a maritime tripoint with Greece. The treaty is unique among maritime boundary treaties in that it allows any dispute regarding the boundary to be referred by either of the countries to the International Court of Justice if it cannot be resolved by diplomatic means within four months.Charney, Jonathan I. ''et al.'' (2005). ''International Maritime Boundaries,'' p. 3302 The full name of the treaty is ''Agreement between Albania and Italy for the determination of the continental shelf of each of the two countries''.


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References

* Anderson, Ewan W. (2003). ''International Boundaries: A Geopolitical Atlas.'' Routledge: New York.
OCLC 54061586
* Blake, Gerald Henry and Duško Topalović. (1996). ''The Maritime Boundaries of the Adriatic Sea.'' Durham, United Kingdom: International Boundaries Research Unit (IBRU).
OCLC 246246871
* Charney, Jonathan I., David A. Colson, Robert W. Smith. (2005). ''International Maritime Boundaries,'' 5 vols. Hotei Publishing: Leiden. ; ; ; ;
OCLC 23254092


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Full text of agreement
1992 in Albania 1992 in Italy Treaties concluded in 1992 Albania–Italy border Boundary treaties Treaties of Italy Treaties of Albania {{Treaty-stub