ICJ units cut-off dates in Belize-Honduras border dispute

The Belize authorities Monday mentioned the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice (ICJ) has set Could 2 for the Caribbean Group (CARICOM) nation to file its Memorial within the dispute with Honduras concerning the sovereignty over the Sapodilla Caye.

Belize mentioned its Ambassador Assad Shoman has suggested the ICJ Registrar that Belmopan intends to file its Memorial on or earlier than the deadline set by the Courtroom.

Honduras has been given December 4, 2023 to file its counter Memorial.

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Final November, the federal government mentioned it had deposited its software with the ICJ Registrar because it seeks a ultimate and binding decision of the dispute with Honduras regarding sovereignty over the Sapodilla Cayes, together with Seal Caye.

“The Authorities of Belize emphasizes that it has taken this measure to guard the important pursuits of Belize in making certain the total and ultimate settlement of all excellent territorial disputes to Belizean territory,” the federal government mentioned in a short assertion, including “it has accomplished so in assist and furtherance of its pleasant relations with Honduras”.

In its software, which is posted on the web site of the Hague-based ICJ, Belize recollects that, “for the reason that early nineteenth century, the Sapodilla Cayes have fashioned 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”.

It argues that below worldwide regulation, Belize is sovereign over the Sapodilla Cayes and that the Honduran declare to the Sapodilla Cayes, “articulated in its 1982 Structure, which stays in power as a matter of the interior regulation of Honduras, has no foundation in worldwide regulation”.

The world in dispute is situated within the southernmost group of islands/cayes in Belizean waters.

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