Agreement
Green Tree Agreement, 2006
Nigeria and Cameroon agreed to implement the ICJ ruling, with Nigeria completing its withdrawal from Bakassi by 2008.
What happened
On 12 June 2006, Nigeria and Cameroon signed the Green Tree Agreement; Nigeria completed its withdrawal from Bakassi by August 2008.[1]
Sources for this page
Each number marks a specific claim. Notes give the source, its locator and how it relates to the claim.
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Claim: On 10 October 2002, the International Court of Justice ruled that sovereignty over the Bakassi Peninsula rested with Cameroon, based principally on a 1913 boundary treaty between Britain and Germany, the colonial powers then administering Nigeria and Cameroon respectively. Following this ruling, Nigeria and Cameroon signed the UN-brokered Green Tree Agreement on 12 June 2006, guaranteed by Britain, France, Germany and the United States, under which Nigeria agreed to hand over the peninsula, completing its military, civil-administration and police withdrawal from Bakassi by August 2008. This bundle treats this interstate territorial resolution as distinct from local Bakassi self-determination claims.
- Land and Maritime Boundary between Cameroon and Nigeria (Cameroon v. Nigeria: Equatorial Guinea intervening) (International Court of Justice) link, Judgment section. Source record
- Implications of the Bakassi conflict resolution for Cameroon (African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD)) link, Green Tree Agreement and withdrawal sections. Source record