Security & Strategic Review December 2007 (ISSN 1741-4202)

NICARAGUA-COLOMBIA | World Court trims down dispute. On 13 December the International Court of Justice ruled that it was competent to hear the case brought by Nicaragua against Colombia over their common maritime boundaries in the Caribbean and sovereignty over Caribbean islands currently under Colombian control. In the process, the ICJ trimmed the scope of the Nicaraguan suit. The court excluded Nicaragua's claim to sovereignty over the San Andrés & Providencia peninsula, basically because Managua had based its case on the alleged invalidity of the bilateral Esguerra-Bárcenas treaty of 1928-30 which granted sovereignty to Colombia.

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