Bogotá, November 6 (EFE). – Colombian Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva will meet this week in Paris with Nicaragua’s agent before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Carlos Argüello, to begin discussions on the implementation of the rulings made. His office reported on Monday that the court was due to the maritime dispute between the both countries have made a decision.
The purpose of the meeting was “to begin harmonious work related to the rulings of the International Court of Justice and to advance the necessary mechanisms to comply with them,” the Colombian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
According to the information, Foreign Minister Leyva had a telephone conversation “with the experienced and respected Nicaraguan agent Argüello” during his visit last week to Washington, where he accompanied Colombian President Gustavo Petro to the Alliance for Prosperity Summit. Economics Conference in the Americas (APEP), convened by the White House.
“They (Leyva and Argüello) agreed to meet in Paris, where Foreign Minister Leyva Durán will attend the Peace Forum and the UNESCO General Conference,” the Foreign Ministry added.
On October 21, the State Department reported that the governments of Colombia and Nicaragua “emphasized the urgency of advancing discussions to ensure compliance with recent rulings of the International Court of Justice” at a meeting to discuss “issues of bilateral interest.” (ICJ)”, based in The Hague.
Last July, Colombia celebrated the International Court of Justice’s ruling preventing Nicaragua from extending its continental shelf beyond the 200 nautical miles that limit its maritime border with the Andean country, a decision that ended a decades-long dispute.
The international court rejected that the archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina lies within the boundaries of Nicaragua’s maritime border, confirming the boundaries it had established in November 2012 when it granted Colombia sovereignty over those islands but abandoned it Cession of nearly 75,000 square kilometers forced kilometers from the Caribbean Sea to the Central American country.
Chancellor Leyva believed at the time that it was possible to “maintain sovereignty over a neighboring country and open the doors to the defense of the Caribbean basin,” which “must require national unity, apart from useless confrontations.”
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