Hague Decision this
Week Top News in
Nicaragua
The verdict emitted by
the International Court
of Justice in The Hague
on a territorial dispute
in waters of the
Caribbean Sea with
Honduras, highly marked
the news week in
Nicaragua.
The Court with
headquarters in that
Dutch city granted
Tegucigalpa the
sovereignty over four
small barren islands
located in the zone in
dispute, while it
endorsed Nicaraguan
reclamations on an
extensive marine zone in
the Caribbean Sea.
Apart from how
advantageous or not that
decision can be for one
or another country, it
was calmly welcomed on
both sides of the border
granting historical
connections to the
event.
The first people to give
example of political
maturity were the
Presidents of Nicaragua
Daniel Ortega, and of
Honduras Manuel Zelaya,
who embraced as "as
brothers" shortly after
knowing the sentence in
a point halfway between
both capitals.
"Our adversaries were
wrong, the decision in
the Hague has united
Central America",
Honduran President
asserted during the
encounter celebrated in
the Nicaraguan city of
Ocotal, 140 miles north
of Managua, and near the
border with Honduras.
According to Zelaya,
"nor the ideologies, nor
the problems of religion
or classes will hamper
the union of Central
America to confront
together common
problems".
According to Ortega,
Nicaragua, Honduras, El
Salvador and Guatemala
are determined to go on
with regional
integration, reason why
he invited Costa Rica,
and specially its
President Oscar Arias to
be part of the process. |
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