Weekly Report - 10 March 2011 (WR-11-10)

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague has done it again. Just as its 2009 ruling on the San Juan River which divides Nicaragua and Costa Rica was deemed acceptable by both sides, ending a four-year long legal battle, its provisional ruling on a dispute over a controversial project by Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega to dredge the San Juan, is being hailed as a “victory" by both Ortega and Costa Rica's President Laura Chinchilla. While the court order is only a provisional measure, with the sovereignty of the disputed area still under consideration, for the time being at least, it appears to have defused a significant source of bilateral tension.

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