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Maritime Delimitation in the Central Mediterranean Sea and Algeria’s Proclamation of an Exclusive Economic Zone

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With Presidential Decree no. 18-96 of 20 March 2018, Algeria officially proclaimed an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the Mediterranean Sea so as to exercise therein its sovereign rights and jurisdiction in accordance with Part V of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). The act included a list of 63 geographical coordinates delineating the extension of the maritime claim but envisaged that the outer limits of the EEZ could be modified through bilateral agreements with neighboring States, where necessary.[1]

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The Position of the Ministry of Justice on the Prohibition of Extradition of Terrorist Suspects

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CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, XVII LEGISLATURE, 17th MEETING, 16 MAY 2013 – QUESTION TIME.

On 16 May 2013, the Undersecretary of State for Justice, Mr. Cosimo Maria Ferri, outlined before the Chamber of Deputies the reasons leading to the Decreto Ministeriale of 24 April 2013, which granted the extradition of a Spanish terrorist suspect to Spain. In such country, special detention conditions, which have been the object of ECHR judgments and criticisms by human rights NGOs, apply for terrorist suspects. The extradition had been previously approved by both the Court of Appeal of Rome and the Supreme Court of Cassation. In his statement, Mr. Ferri referred to the decision of the Court of Cassation as follows:

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