End of preview - This article contains approximately 1041 words.
Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article
Not a Subscriber?
Choose from one of the following options
Back
Brazil & Southern Cone - February 2014 (ISSN 1741-4431)
CHILE: ICJ delivers ruling
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague has finally issued its long awaited ruling on Chile’s maritime dispute with Peru. The 27 January ruling granted Peru, which brought the case against Chile in 2008, some 50,000km2 of additional territorial waters previously considered Chilean but allowed Chile to retain rich fishing grounds in the disputed area. Both President Sebastián Piñera and his Peruvian counterpart, Ollanta Humala, vowed to implement the ruling, expressing their interest in closing the chapter and strengthening trade and investment ties. However there are still difficulties over a small triangle of land, and following on comments by President Piñera there are also concerns in Peru about Chile’s commitment to the 1948 Pact of Bogotá, which recognises ICJ jurisdiction.
- Brazil readies new legislation to deal with violent protest risk
- ECONOMY: Fears about recession creep back
- ENERGY: Blackouts shock the Rousseff team
- POLITICS: Getting heated in Rio
- POLITICS: Figueiredo in Havana for talks over doctor desertions
- ARGENTINA: Inflation: the truth hurts
- ARGENTINA: A shift to orthodoxy, but is it too late?
- CHILE: Bachelet unveils her ministerial team
- CHILE: ICJ delivers ruling
- URUGUAY: Casting disturbed glances across the River Plate
- PARAGUAY: Cartes government suffers its first setback in congress
- Aratirí open pit mining project causes ructions in Uruguay