evidence: In parallel, Bahrain prepared as of 19 March 1988 a draft special agreement according to which: "Article I The parties shall submit the question posed in Article II to the International Court of Justice. Article II 1. The parties request the Court (a) to draw a single maritime boundary between the respective maritime areas of Bahrain and Qatar; such boundary to pass between the easternmost features of the Bahrain archipelago including most pertinently the Hawar Islands, Fasht ad Dibal and other adjacent or neighbouring features and the coast of Qatar, and to preserve Bahrain's rights in the pearling banks which lie to the north east of Fasht ad Dibal, and in the fisheries between the Bahrain archipelago and Qatar. (b) to determine the rights of the State of Bahrain in and around Zubara. 2. The Court is requested to describe the course of the maritime boundary . . ." (Memorial of Qatar, Ann. II.22; Counter-Memorial of Bahrain, Ann. I.9.) 26. Qatar and Bahrain both apparently endeavoured to draft a special agreement by which they could jointly refer the matters in dispute to the International Court of Justice.