(posted Nov. 8, 11:50 a.m.)- A decade-long international court battle between Nicaragua and Colombia is finally in its drum-roll finish.
San Andres (photo/ Brad Allgood)
The International Court of Justice at The Hague has announced that on Nov. 19 it will hand down its final verdict on the ownership of the maritime territory surrounding the Caribbean archipelago of San Andres.
Nicaragua first took the case before The Hague in 2001 in protest to the Colombian navy harassing Nicaraguan fishing boats in Caribbean waters claimed by both countries.
Nicaragua argues that the 1928 Esguerra-Bárcenas treaty, which gave Colombia the Archipelago of San Andres, Providencia and Santa Catalina, does not establish maritime borders. Colombia, meanwhile, has used that treaty to encroach on Nicaraguan waters, establishing the 82nd meridian as the limit of Colombian waters—a move that nearly halves Nicaragua’s maritime territory.
In a preliminary ruling in 2007, the World Court ruled that the Archipelago of San Andres, Povidencia and Santa Catalina (which were part of Nicaragua from 1838 to 1928) are Colombian territory. But The Court left the maritime border dispute unresolved. Nicaragua argues its boundary should extend to the limit of its continental platform
If Nicaragua wins the case, it would nearly double the country’s maritime territory in the Caribbean.
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Even if we lose this one on the Hague, Colombia won’t accept it.
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The Miskito coast was part of Colombia before the United States stole the Panama Canal away from Colombia. Nicaragua and Costa Rica took parts of that coast from Colombia, therefore Colombia could ask Nicaragua to give back the Miskito coast. Nicaragua and its populist president is looking for problems that don’t exist.