evidence: The Italian Parliament also overwhelmingly approved the 1935 Treaty in May of that year and ratified it the following month.Footnote 13 There is differing information that Italy did not ratify the 1935 Treaty while France ratified the entire Mussolini–Laval set of agreements.Footnote 14 Other sources claim that the French Senate refused to ratify the 1935 Treaty.Footnote 15 The International Court of Justice (ICJ) noted in 1994 in Libya v Chad, "[a]lthough ratification of the [1935] treaty was authorized by the parliaments of both parties, instruments of ratification were never exchanged, and the treaty never came into force".Footnote 16 The 2008 UN fact-finding report on the situation between Djibouti and Eritrea, noting this absence of exchange of instruments of ratification of the 1935 Treaty, stated that "[u]nder the 1935 agreement, Ras Doumeira and Doumeira Island, both of which were ‘seized’ by [Eritrean Defence Forces] in March 2008, form part of Eritrean territory, by Eritrean reasoning. Absent exchange of instrument of ratification, Djiboutians have all along assumed that the [1900 and 1901] Protocols still apply."Footnote 17 Only the eastern part of the border is disputed.