n ratified, and has been complicated by Croatia's declaration
of an ecological-fisheries zone in the Adriatic Sea

Solomon Islands
Australian defense personnel are dispatched at the
invitation of the Solomon Islands' Government to restore law and
order on the islands and reinforce regional security

Somalia
"Somaliland" secessionists provide port facilities to
land-locked Ethiopia and establish commercial ties with regional
states; "Puntland" secessionists clash with "Somaliland"
secessionists to establish territorial limits and clan loyalties,
each seeking support from neighboring states; Ethiopia maintains
only an administrative line with the Oromo region of southern
Somalia and maintains alliances with local Somali clans opposed to
the unrecognized Transitional National Government in Mogadishu

South Africa
managed dispute with Namibia over the location of the
boundary in the Orange River

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
briefly occupied by
military force in 1982 - claimed by Argentina in constitution but
declares it will no longer seek settlement by force

Southern Ocean
Antarctic Treaty defers claims (see Antarctica
entry), but Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, NZ, Norway, and UK
assert claims (some overlapping), including the continental shelf in
the Southern Ocean; several states have expressed an interest in
extending those continental shelf claims under the United Nations
Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to include undersea
ridges; the US and most other states do not recognize the land or
maritime claims of other states and have made no claims themselves
(the US and Russia have reserved the right to do so); no formal
claims have been made in the sector between 90 degrees west and 150
degrees west

Spain
since Gibraltar residents voted overwhelmingly by referendum
in 2003 against a "total shared sovereignty" arrangement, talks
between the UK and Spain over the fate of the 300-year old UK colony
have stalled; Spain disapproves of UK plans to grant Gibraltar
greater autonomy; Morocco protests Spain's control over the coastal
enclaves of Ceuta, Melilla, and the islands of Penon de Velez de la
Gomera, Penon de Alhucemas and Islas Chafarinas, and surrounding
waters; Morocco serves as the primary launching area of illegal
migration into Spain from North Africa; Morocco rejected Spain's
unilateral designati