Petro will seek to negotiate with Nicaragua fishing conditions for the San Andrés raizales

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petroannounced this Thursday that he will seek a dialogue with Nicaragua and with the Government of Daniel Ortega to negotiate the fishing conditions of the Raizal people in the framework of the long dispute between the two nations over maritime borders.

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“We will request dialogue with Nicaragua now to negotiate the conditions of the right to fish for the Raizal people in the Caribbean“, said Petro in a speech on the island of San Andrés where he referred to the recent decision of the international Court of Justice (ICJ) favorable to Colombia.

The president made the announcement at the commemoration of the Independence Day with a speech focused on the ruling of a week ago of the ICJ that prevented Nicaragua extend its continental shelf beyond the 200 nautical miles that delimit its maritime border with Colombia.

“We will talk to ortega and with your Government on how these new rulings of the Court can make prevail that the peoples (…) can have the right to fish without being disturbed, the right to their ancestral subsistence, to communicate with each other without barriers, that the grandparents of the Mosquito Coast (Nicaragua) can see their grandchildren in San Andrés and vice versa”he asserted.

The words of Petro are given one day after ortega asked the Colombian government to translate into a bilateral agreement the rulings of the ICJbased in Haguewhich delimited the maritime border of both countries in the Caribbean Sea.

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CLAIM OF THE CARIBBEAN

Colombia “before anything is Caribbeanin the midst of its diversity a concept has been diluting, which is the concept of Caribbean”claimed the president, who based his speech on a staunch defense of Caribbean culture and a criticism of the politicians who govern from Bogotá.

“Accustomed to ruling from Bogota sometimes we forget our own roots”continued the head of state, who added that “Jamaica, Haiti, Cartagena, Maracaibo” are territories that “They are in the scene of the birth of the Republic of Colombia”.

to the rulers “they forgot the existence of the people as the basis of the nation, as the basis of sovereignty (…) that is why they challenged us, that is why at the beginning of this century Colombia was sued (…) and we began to lose, over and over again”Petro explained in reference to the long litigation that maintained Colombia with Nicaragua in international courts.

In this context, he criticized the previous governments for their actions in the ICJ, and the strategy used in the lawsuit with Nicaragua, accusing them of not knowing the land they were defending, the archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina.

Colombiain his republican life, “It has seen its territory lost time and time again (…) for 200 years what we have seen is how from Bogotá territories are lost, borders are abandoned”Petro said.

On November 19, 2012, the ICJ issued a judgment that modified the boundaries between the two countries in the Caribbean Sea but, far from settling a dispute that had been dragging on for decades, it gave rise to new lawsuits in Hagueincluding the ruling a week ago in favor of Colombia.

In that ruling, the court of the hague awarded to Colombia the sovereignty of the archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalinabut forced him to cede almost 75,000 square kilometers of the Caribbean Sea to the Central American country.

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INDEPENDENCE DAY IN SAN ANDRÉS

This Thursday, on the occasion of the Independence DayPetro moved to Saint Andrewwhere he awarded the Order of Boyacá to members of the public force and also paid tribute to the Liberator Simon Bolivar.

Among those who received thegrand cross” This Thursday there are the commanders of the Army, the Military Forces, the Navy and the Air Force, as well as the director of the Police.

The president also attended a civic-military parade on the island and after the events in Saint Andrew will return to Bogotá to install this afternoon the new regular session of the Congress.

Source: Elcomercio

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