THE HAGUE, the Netherlands.- The International Court of Justice of The Hague ruled, by twelve votes against three, that Chile did not contract legal obligation to grant sovereign access to Bolivia to the Pacific Ocean.

The opinion of the highest international Tribunal of the United Nations, after five years of processing and which lasted an hour and 15 minutes, clarifies that its judgement will not prevent the parties from continuing exchanges in a spirit of good neighborliness in order to attend the claim, after 134 years of being landlocked.

In a manifest reiterated before the conclusion of the meeting, culture workers of Chile and Bolivia addressed the governments of both countries claiming for a definitive solution, irrespective of the opinion of The Hague Tribunal.

(…) To deny the conflict is not to take charge of the other’s pain and to postpone the search for a solution to that centennial problem, they underlined.

Court Urges Bolivia and Chile to Negotiate in Good Faith

THE HAGUE, the Netherlands.- The International Court of Justice urged Bolivia and Chile to negotiate in good faith the historic aspiration of the Andean-Amazonian nation to have a sovereign exit to the Pacific Ocean.

Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed read the ruling on the demand for maritime claims, in which the judges concluded that the Republic of Chile did not contract the legal obligation to negotiate sovereign access to the Pacific Ocean for the plurinational State of Bolivia.

The Court rejected the rest of the final allegations presented by Bolivia, after analyzing the legal and historical data presented by the parties in the process.

Abdulqawi Ahmed said the Court notes that Bolivia and Chile have a long history of dialogue, exchanges and negotiations aimed at identifying an appropriate solution to Bolivia’s mediterranity after the Pacific War and the Peace Treaty.