The International Court of Justice (ICJ) reported this March 30 that on April 21 it will issue a sentence in the case of Nicaragua and Colombia for alleged violations of sovereign rights and maritime spaces in the Caribbean Sea.
The resolution will be announced at 10 in the morning, at the Peace Palace, in The Hague, headquarters of the ICJ. «The President of the Court, madam. Joan Donoghue will read the Court’s decision,” the statement was quoted as saying.
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They point out that as preventive measures against the pandemic of the COVID-19only the members of the Court and the representatives of the States Parties (Nicaragua and Colombia) “will be present in the Great Hall of Justice.”
“Members of the diplomatic corps, representatives of the media and the public will be able to follow the reading live by webdiffusion sur on the Court’s website and on UN Web TV (United Nations Television),” the Court reported.
In September 2013, Colombia declared an Integral Contiguous Zone to exercise its jurisdiction in the waters surrounding the islands and keys “as an archipelago and not as unconnected territories.”
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In November of the same year, the Ortega government asked the ICJ to demand that Colombia repeal laws “incompatible with the ruling” of November 2012, as well as the revocation of permits granted to Colombian fishing vessels that fish in the disputed waters.
Ortega recently attacked Colombia again, calling it a “narco-state.” The friction between Managua and Bogotá occurred two days after former diplomat Arturo McFields denounced in an OAS session that there is a “dictatorship” in Nicaragua
So far, the Government of Nicaragua has not referred to the sentence where it will be ruled which of the two governments has violated sovereign rights and maritime spaces.
