Condominium (international law)
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In international law, a condominium is a territory in which two sovereign powers have equal rights. Although a condominium has always been recognized as a theoretical possibility, condominiums have been rare in practice. The largest obstacle to condominiums, and the major reason why so few have existed in practice, is the difficulty of ensuring co-operation between the two sovereign powers.
Examples of condominiums
- Cyprus was shared for over three hundred years between the Byzantine emperor and the caliph.
- The Oregon Country was an Anglo-American condominium from 1818 until 1846
- Neutral Moresnet was shared from 1816 until 1919 between The Netherlands (later Belgium) and Prussia (later Germany).
- Sudan was a British–Egyptian condominium until 1956.
- The Canton and Enderbury Islands were a British–American condominium from 1939 until 1979 when they became part of Kiribati.
- The New Hebrides formed a French–British condominium until independence as Vanuatu in 1980.
- Under French law, Andorra was once considered to be a French–Spanish condominium, although it is more commonly classed as a co-principality.
- In 2001, the British government proposed sharing sovereignty of Gibraltar with Spain, but this was decisively rejected by the people of Gibraltar in a referendum in 2002.
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Categories: International law | International relations | Dependent territories | Political geography
