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Weekly Report - 01 December 2016 (WR-16-47)
COSTA RICA-NICARAGUA: Fresh tensions ahead of key deadline
The Nicaraguan government of President Daniel Ortega has rejected as “disproportionate” a US$6.7m compensation claim demanded by the Costa Rican government led by President Luis Guillermo Solís. The claim relates to a December 2015 ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague [WR-16-01] which found in favour of Costa Rica in response to the bilateral territorial dispute over the San Juan River area that divides the two countries. The response by the Ortega government (which had accepted the 2015 ICJ ruling) comes with weeks until the deadline to settle the claim. It follows other signs that bilateral relations are again taking a turn for the worse.
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