2023-07-16 01:52:30
Although the International Court of Justice agreed with Colombia regarding its sovereignty in San Andrés y Providencia and halted Nicaragua’s claims over the national sea, little is known regarding the technical arguments that were decisive for the Hague ruling.
The Colombian government won the pulse of the Daniel Ortega regime, following a long legal dispute in which, on several occasions, the outlook seemed dark.
On this, Captain Herman León, representative of the Navy of the Defense Team in the International Court of Justice, explained the following: “Our thesis was to demonstrate that Colombia had a continental shelf extended from the islands and the continent (…) The Navy, as a complement to the legal strategy of the State, had to find the technical evidence to demonstrate the extension of the continental shelf in the San Andrés archipelago and the nine oceanic islands and from the continent forming a single continental shelf and, on the contrary, attack the counterpart that was Nicaragua.”
He added that to obtain these technical tests, Navy ships were used to get them to map the bottom of the sea and practically update the information that was had in the past and that was deficient. “Ships from the surface use sound waves to map the ocean floor,” he explained.
In addition, he stated that they found “a relevant submarine formation in the geology of the archipelago.” This fact, said the captain, was key because solid information was obtained to attach it to the process and demonstrate that the Colombian continental shelf was wide and not as Nicaragua claimed.
The Navy complement to the legal strategy of the State had to find the technical evidence to demonstrate the extent of the continental shelf. | Photo: 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved
It also indicated the following: “We found evidence of the interruption to the west of San Andrés called the providencia depression and the hair escarpment at the limit of the Nicaraguan continental shelf and the court accepted the evidence in our favor and rejected the Nicaraguan claims”.
“Nicaragua had no evidence and might not demonstrate why our evidence was more solid. The San Andrés archipelago has a volcanic formation, we find new ecosystems all interconnected at the bottom of the sea and all this geography will be important to know in order to contribute to the development of the sea (…) more than 235 kilometers with 2450 meters were mapped deep,” he said.
Colombia won everything and Nicaragua lost everything before the International Court of The Hague in the fight for maritime territory
The ruling of the International Court of Justice is some of the best news the country has received in years. This is the end of a dispute over Colombian territory that put Colombia at risk of losing its maritime territory to Nicaragua’s ambition. Finally, the International Court of Justice sided with the Colombian defense.
The ruling of the International Court of Justice in The Hague marks an unprecedented failure for the Nicaraguan dictatorship. | Photo: Guillermo Torres Reina – Publications Week
In summary, it might be said that Colombia won everything and Nicaragua lost everything. The decision was given by a very large majority as follows: in all claims, Colombia won with 13 votes once morest 4.
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