The Joint Development Agreement between Senegal and Guinea-Bissau: A Summary and Brief Analysis.

However, Guinea-Bissau contested the validity of the 1960 agreement, not to say that the 1960 agreement only dealt with the territorial sea, the contiguous zone and the continental shelf. 1. On 14 October 1993, the Republic of Senegal and the Republic of Guinea-Bissau ("the Parties"), after rounds of negotiations, reached the Management and Cooperation Agreement ("the Agreement"), which ended the proceeding in the International Court of Justice and put aside the maritime delimitation dispute between the two States. One of a number of such agreements signed by countries with contested maritime boundaries across the globe, the Agreement is arguably the first of its kind in the Gulf of Guinea region.[1] Many lessons could be drawn from the Agreement. The respective territorial seas of Guinea-Bissau and Senegal shall be excluded from this joint exploitation zone, except for small-scale fishing from canoes (Agreement, Art. [Extracted from the article]