It covers all uses of ocean space, including navigation and overflight.

It is important to note that about 55 per cent of the traffic is overflight traffic, and 20 per cent is khat traffic.

Since the Panel conducted its last overflight in mid February, there has been a noticeable increase in the level of mining, as well as the degree of sophistication employed in methods of extraction.

Nevertheless, although there was little in the way of activity on the day of the Panel's overflight, the actual area of mining had been developed considerably and there were many more pits and trenches in evidence.

Fourth, India claimed that two multilateral aviation conventions and a bilateral treaty providing Pakistan overflight and landing rights in India had been suspended in 1971 by the hostilities between India and Pakistan that began in 1965.

Thus, the Bosnia and Herzegovina civil aviation sector annually loses millions of marka in overflight fees, owing to the continued closure of Kosovo air space, even though normalization of air traffic in the region would be easy to achieve.

Third, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 and the continuing dispute over the delimitation of the continental shelf in the Aegean Sea caused Greece and Turkey to suspend overflight rights until September 1976, when they were formally reinstated.

Austria began to reassess its definition of neutrality following the fall of the Soviet Union, granting overflight rights for the UN sanctioned action against Iraq in 1991, and, since 1995, it has developed participation in the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP).