Weekly Report - 29 November 2012 (WR-12-47)

It was my party and I’ll leave if I want to. That is what the Colombian administration led by President Juan Manuel Santos has told the Organization of American States (OAS), the depository of the 1948 American Treaty of Pacific Settlement Pact of Bogotá. Colombia is only the second nation to leave the treaty after having ratified it – El Salvador left in 1973. Foreign Minister María Angela Holguín, who informed the public of the decision in a public statement, said that as well as being motivated by the  “legal vacuums and inconsistencies” of the 19 November International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on the bilateral dispute with Nicaragua [WR-12-46], Bogotá believes the 1948 agreement has little value since “after six decades of its signing, fewer than half of the countries of the hemisphere are party to said treaty”.

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