Revocation of signing of the representative of the Arab Republic of Egypt government on the agreement of determination of the maritime borders between Egypt and Saudi Arabia 43709 and 43866 judiciary year 70

Type: Administrative cancellation and other administrative claims

Case no.: 43709 judiciary year 70 and 43866 judiciary year 70 registered no. 74236 judiciary year 62 supreme

Date: 2016

Court: Administrative judiciary

 The decision appealed against:  Signing of the representative of the Arab Republic of Egypt government on the agreement of determination of the maritime borders between Egypt and Saudi Arabia

First verdict date: 21-6-2016

Appellant: Ali Ayoub and Mohamed Qadri Farid in case no. 43709 and Khaled Ali Omar and interfering adverses of 182 citizens in case no. 43866

The Appealed against: President of the Republic – Prime Minister – President of the Parliament  in case no. 43709 and President of the Republic – Prime Minister  – Defense Minister – Foreign Minister – Minister of Interior in case no. 43866

Judges: President – Yahya Ahmed Ragheb Dakrouri

Verdict text: The court ruled of

First: rejecting the claim that the court is not competent in loyalty to consider the suits

Second: to accept the suits in form and the revocation of signing of the Egyptian representative on the agreement of determination of maritime borders between Egypt and Saudi Arabia in April 2016 including waiver of the two islands Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia with what results from this especially to keep these two islands among the land territory and the Egyptian borders and to keep the Egyptian sovereignty on them and banning changing their description in any form for any other country as stated and obliged the administrative body to pay expenses

Supreme Administrative Court Verdict Date: 16-1-2017

No. of Appeal: 74236 supreme judiciary year 62

Department: First – examining appeals

Appellant:  President of the Republic – Prime Minister  – Defense Minister – Foreign Minister – Minister of Interior and an interfering adverse Ahmed Sadeq al Qosheiri

Appealed against: Ali Ayoub and Mohamed Qadri Farid  and Khaled Ali Omar and interfering adverses of 182 citizens

Judges: Ahmed Mohamed Saleh al Shazly – President

Mohamed Ahmed Abdul Wahhab Khafagi and Mahmoud Shaaban Hussein Ramada – Members

Report of the State Commissioners Committee: to accept the appeal in form and reject it in subject and obliging the appellants to pay expenses of the degree of litigation

Verdict Text of the Supreme Administrative Court:

Unanimously to reject the appeal and obliging the appealing administrative body to pay expenses