Chilean government prepares for maritime case against Peru
Chilean government prepares for maritime case against Peru
Friday, 19 October 2012 19:31
Written by Astrid Fuentes
With its Dec. 3 court date before the United Nation’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) rapidly approaching, the Chilean government has been calling all authorities on international relations together to fine-tune its defense in preparation. In the latest meeting, President Sebastián Piñera convened Friday with the Foreign Relations Committees from both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.
The trial stems from a maritime dispute with Peru, which filed the legal complaint with the ICJ at The Hague in 2008.
The complaint concerns the maritime boundary between Peru and Chile that currently gives Chile control of 14,500 square miles of lucrative fishing waters in the Pacific that begins along the coastal city of Concordia. According to Chile, the boundary is determined by the 1929 Treaty of Lima, which Peru argues is an agreement on fishing rights, rather than maritime boundaries.
Among those in attendance Friday were Foreign Minister Alfredo Moreno, Interior Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter and Alberto Van Klaveren, Chile’s lead lawyer in the Hague case.
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