Belize recordsdata memorial in land dispute with Honduras
Loop Information- Belize introduced on Tuesday that it has met the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice’s deadline to file a Memorial within the dispute with Honduras over the sovereignty of the Sapodilla Caye.
The memorial was handed over to Jean-Pelé Fomété, Deputy Registrar of the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice in The Hague, The Netherlands as we speak.
“Belize’s Memorial makes a vigorous defence of Belize’s sovereignty over the Sapodilla Cayes. The Memorial requests the Courtroom to adjudge and declare that, as between Belize and Honduras, Belize is sovereign over the Sapodilla Cayes and that Honduras doesn’t have any legitimate declare to the Sapodilla Cayes,” the Ministry of International Affairs mentioned in a press release.
The ministry mentioned Honduras has till 4 December 2023 to submit its Counter-Memorial.
Final November, Belize filed an utility with the ICJ Registrar in a bid to resolve its lengthy standing dispute with Honduras.
In its utility, Belize remembers that, “because the early nineteenth century, the Sapodilla Cayes have shaped a part of the territory of Belize, initially as a part of the settlement of Belize and later the colony of British Honduras, and since 1981 as a part of the impartial State of Belize”.
The Sapodilla Cayes, which accounts for 15,618 hectares of territory, has been a nationwide environmental reserve in Belize since 1996.