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 News | 18-jui-2013
A Turkish power generation company has filed a case against the Pakistan government at ICSID for compensation of losses worth 700 million dollars
Lexology | 15-avr-2013
Following a decision of the United Nations Human Rights Committee (“UNHRC“) in 2010 that a Turkish businessman had suffered violations of his human rights after being illegally convicted of economic crimes, a claim for compensation is now being pursued under the Turkey-Turkmenistan bilateral investment treaty (“BIT“). This case therefore highlights the interesting interaction between the human rights and investment protection regimes.
Almasry Alyoum | 12-aoû-2011
In violation of international agreements, natural gas has not flowed for months across the Sinai desert through the pipeline that connects Israel and Jordan to Egypt. Since former President Hosni Mubarak’s fall in February, political uncertainty and intermittent attacks have halted its delivery.
| 14-jui-2011
The government of Turkmenistan faces legal action from twenty Turkish construction firms over broken contracts costing them more than $1 billion in losses, a spokesman representing the companies said on Wednesday.
| 23-mai-2011
UAE companies that have invested in Egypt may stand to lose millions of dollars as the state runs an investigation into alleged corruption by former government officials who sold land and assets to investors below market prices, lawyers say.
| 13-mai-2011
Damac Properties is to fight the conviction of its chairman on Egyptian corruption charges by filing a case with the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the company announced yesterday.
Messenger | 20-oct-2010
On October 15 Georgian law enforcers detained Israeli businessmen offering Deputy Minister of Finance, Avtandil Kharadze USD 7 million for him to convince the Georgian Government not to challenge a decision of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
| 7-sep-2009
An arbitral tribunal appointed by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (lCSID) of the World Bank hearing a claim brought by a Turkish investor against the Islamic Republic of Pakistan has rejected all claims for breach of a bilateral investment treaty between the two countries.
| 9-avr-2007
Global Gold mining company submitted its claim to the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), a body adjunct to the World Bank, against the Government of the Republic of Armenia (ROA). The Company is trying to protect its investment rights in arbitration court.
| 22-mar-2007
A US company mining gold in Armenia has initiated an international arbitration of its bitter dispute with Environment Minister Vartan Ayvazian whom it accuses of corruption and other violations of the law.