It's quite simple really.......Kenya wants to draw a straight baseline from it's own coast.
They have tried to use the Tanzanian/Kenyan delineation of their maritime boundary as an example.
However, if you examine the Tanzanian/Kenyan case it becomes obvious that such a drawing of "straight baselines" from the coast, doesn't apply in the Kenyan/Somali case........why you my ask?........because there is no foreign landfall being intersected by the Somali angled baseline.
Kenya's erroneous claim that if the Somali angled baseline was used, it would make the Tanzanian island of Pemba Kenyan territory, is just a red herring.Straight baselines from the coast can only be used in very special circumstances, one of which is when the angled baseline will intersect another country's territory i.e Pemba. As the Somali angled baseline doesn't intersect Kenyan landfall, the straight baseline that Kenya is claiming is non applicable.
Here is the document showing how Kenya/Tanzania delineated their maritime boundary. It also references the "Law of the Sea" and other international conventions for delineating maritime boundary's.
PS pay careful attention to the northern boundary angled baseline (which is the the Kenyan/Somali boundary line as of 1975).
These Kenyans are trying to take us for fools....while their own legal maps refutes their false claims.
PS Hassan Sheikh's office feel free to PM me.
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/58819.pdf
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