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

HONDURAS-EL SALVADOR | New dispute in the Gulf of Fonseca. On 31 August, Flag Day in Honduras, Honduran defence ministry officials and members of the armed forces squeezed into Conejo island in the Gulf of Fonseca — an outcrop of less than one square kilometre — and staged a ‘symbolic’ ceremony of raising the Honduran flag.  The government of El Salvador, which claims the island as its own but has no presence there, dashed off a note of protest, reiterating its claim on the strength of the fact that the 1992 ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) which settled long-lasting boundary disputes ‘never questioned Salvadorean sovereignty over Conejo island.’

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