Egypt's High Administrative Court adjourned on Saturday to 22 October its decision on a government appeal against a verdict overruling a controversial deal to hand over two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia. The maritime demarcation accord was announced by the government in April during a visit to Cairo by Saudi King Salman. In June, an administrative court ruling aned the signing of the deal and said that the Islands of Tiran and Sanafir remain Egyptian. The government has appealed the ruling. The government lawyer told the court Saturday that the deal was only preliminary, describing it as a sovereign decision and arguing that only parliament has jurisdiction over the matter. Also on Saturday, the Supreme Constitutional Court set 13 November to rule on another appeal brought by Egypt's State Lawsuits Authority – the body that represents the government in legal cases, to suspend the annulment of the island deal and challenge the jurisdiction of the administrative court that issued it. (ahramonline)