LatinNews Daily Report - 09 February 2012

Costa Rica - Nicaragua | Territorial dispute. On 7 February the foreign ministers of Honduras and El Salvador, Arturo Corrales and Hugo Martínez, separately announced that their countries were against the “regionalisation” of the territorial dispute between Costa Rica and Nicaragua over Costa Rica’s construction of a 160km road running parallel to the San Juan River, which marks the common border. The announcements are a boon for Costa Rica’s foreign minister, Enrique Castillo, who has toured Central America in the past fortnight in an attempt to secure regional backing against a ruling by the Central American Court of Justice (CCJ) against Costa Rica. On 2 February Panama was the first country to back Costa Rica’s position that the issue should be resolved by the Inter-American Court of Justice at The Hague (ICJ), since neither Costa Rica nor Panama recognise the jurisdiction of the CCJ.

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