Moyen Orient

Les États du Moyen-Orient ont conclu environ 600 accords d’investissement. 44 procédures de règlement des différends entre investisseur et Etat (ISDS, selon l’acronyme anglais) ont été engagées contre des pays du Moyen-Orient, tandis que des investisseurs de la région ont également engagé 44 procédures.

En 2013, la société Al-Kharafi & Sons Co, investisseur du Koweït, a obtenu 935 millions de dollars dans le cadre de l’Accord unifié pour l’investissement des capitaux arabes dans les États arabes, dans le cadre d’un litige portant sur un contrat de location de terrain en vue d’un projet touristique en Libye, ce qui en fait l’une des plus importantes sentences arbitrales connues à ce jour. Il n’avait investi qu’environ 5 millions de dollars, mais le tribunal d’arbitrage a décidé que la Libye devait également compenser les profits qui auraient été réalisés pendant les 90 ans du contrat de location et qui étaient maintenant perdus.

Photo : President of Azerbaijan / CC BY 4.0

(avril 2020)

The Express Tribune | 22-sep-2017
The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has not only imposed a hefty fine on Pakistan but also declared that the country will be paying $5.6 million as interest per month.
Daily Pakistan | 21-sep-2017
Financially-strapped Pakistan has been imposed with a staggering $700 million in a damages suit by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) regarding rental power plants case.
Lexology | 7-aoû-2017
The Tribunal dismissed Yemen’s allegations that state-owned enterprises in the PRC were precluded from bringing claims under the ICSID Convention.
Economic & Political Weekly | 10-jui-2017
The Government of India and the Government of Andhra Pradesh are facing an arbitration suit due to the cancellation of bauxite mining approvals in Visakhapatnam. This is the latest in a series of legal actions by foreign investors in the country.
Kluwer Arbitration Blog | 7-mar-2017
After 15 years of absence in this type of negotiations and several claims the country faced since the economic and financial crisis of 2001, Argentina sat again in the BIT negotiation table.
Globes | 4-mar-2017
The international arbitration panel ruled that Egypt failed to protect the Sinai pipeline from terrorists.
Reuters | 10-fév-2017
Kuwaiti logistics conglomerate Agility to settle by arbitration a $380 million dispute with Iraq’s government .
EFILA | 24-jan-2017
Joining the ICSID will enhance international perceptions of Iran as a welcoming country to invest.
Mining Weekly | 16-jan-2017
The Indian government has been served with a notice for international arbitration by the United Arab Emirates’ Ras Al-Khaimah Investment Authority
Investment Claims | 21-déc-2016
The recent signature of the Argentina-Qatar Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) and the imminent signature of an Argentina-Japan BIT represent a shift in Argentina’s BIT policy.