Security & Strategic Review - April 2013 (ISSN 1741-4202)

On 24 April the government of Bolivia filed a suit before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for the recovery from Chile of an outlet to the Pacific, lost in the 1879-83 War of the Pacific. Details of Bolivia’s arguments will not be released until Chile has been officially notified and the court has accepted to hear the case. However, officials have said that they will not be based on the 1904 treaty that fixed the borders between the two countries. One unofficial version is that Bolivia will base its claim on the fact that since 1904 Chile had publicly recognised an obligation to negotiate with Bolivia a sovereign passage to the ocean.

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