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Weekly Report - 15 December 2022 (WR-22-50)

CHILE-BOLIVIA: ICJ issues non-ruling favouring Chile

After a six-year lawsuit, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague issued a long-awaited ruling on 1 December in relation to the dispute between Chile and Bolivia over the status and use of the waters of the Silala river. The ICJ’s judgement, in the words of one of its judges, Peter Tomka, “decides almost nothing” since during the course of the case the two countries reached an agreement that the Silala was an international waterway. Chile’s President Gabriel Boric hailed the outcome as a victory, while Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales (2006-2019), who was head of state at the time, insisted it was not a defeat. But the Bolivian opposition excoriated Morales and a large majority of respondents to a nationwide poll in Bolivia published this week described the verdict as a “serious defeat” for the country.

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