THE HAGUE, 28 August 2014. Today the Federal Republic of Somalia (hereinafter “Somalia”) instituted proceedings against the Republic of Kenya before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, with regard to “a dispute concerning maritime delimitation in the Indian Ocean”.
In its Application, which is accompanied by three sketch-maps, Somalia contends that both States “disagree about the location of the maritime boundary in the area where their maritime entitlements overlap”, and asserts that “[d]iplomatic negotiations, in which their respective views have been fully exchanged, have failed to resolve this disagreement”.
Somalia requests the Court “to determine, on the basis of international law, the complete course of the single maritime boundary dividing all the maritime areas appertaining to Somalia and to Kenya in the Indian Ocean, including the continental shelf beyond 200 [nautical miles]”. The Applicant further asks the Court “to determine the precise geographical co-ordinates of the single maritime boundary in the Indian Ocean”.
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